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Motel-to-apartment conversions offer housing solutions in metro Detroit Credit: CoStar Group Inc.The former Motorama Motel in Ferndale has been turned from a 60-room motel into 36 apartments. It sold in May to a new owner. Some developers locally and around the nation have looked at giving motels the residential treatment with affordable units and even…

UM plans larger residential tower for downtown Detroit campus Credit: Courtesy of Olympia Development of Michigan/Related Cos.A rendering of a proposed residential tower slated to go at 2205 Cass Ave. next to the under-construction University of Michigan Center for Innovation. The University of Michigan board is expected to consider a measure related to a new…

Editorial: State government office-space glut requires attention Credit: CoStar Group Inc.Cadillac Place in Detroit’s New Center area can house 3,053 state office workers, but only 58% of those seats, or 1,784, are currently assigned, the lowest rate of eight non-Lansing office buildings included in a study by brokerage CBRE. Michigan’s state government is sitting on…

Look inside this architect’s Southwest Michigan home, for sale at more than $4M Credit: @properties Christie’s International Real Estate During the pandemic, a Chicago-based architect designed a serene, contemporary home with a pool in Southwest Michigan for his family, but then his career shifted to Saudi Arabia. Now, he’s put the property on the market….