Another new apartments complex has been proposed for Detroit's once-desolate but now resurgent Brush Park neighborhood.
The four-story building would have 57 apartments plus ground-level retail, and be located at the corner of Edmund and Brush, on a vacant lot across from a bright red City Modern apartments building that recently opened.
A rendering for the proposed Edmund Place apartments. The development is called Edmund Place and its developer is Detroit-based Woodward Capital Partners.
Zain Mikho, managing principal for Woodward Capital Partners, said in an email on Wednesday, July 9, that they believe there is still unmet demand in Detroit for apartments in high-quality buildings in walkable neighborhoods near downtown.
The firm hopes to break ground on Edmund Place in late summer or early fall, and then complete the building by spring 2027.
The design of the development was approved late Wednesday by members of the Detroit Historic District Commission, who agreed that the planned building would have beneficial effect on nearby buildings and the neighborhood in general.
Michael Poris, founding partner of Birmingham-based McIntosh Poris Architects, the project's architect, described the design to commission members as being very elegant.
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"It's similar scale to what's around it, so it’s not overpowering the homes nearby," Poris said. “It’s a great building. It’s not trying to stick out ... it's trying to fit in."
Detroit's Brush Park neighborhood, situated just north of downtown and east of Woodward, has experienced a dramatic redevelopment boom over the past six or so years, involving the construction of hundreds of new apartments as well as upscale and for-sale townhomes.
A rendering for the proposed Edmund Place apartments. The city is expected to sell two parcels of land to the developer at 301 Edmund Place and 321 Edmund Place for the Edmund Place project. A city spokesperson didn't respond to an inquiry about the sale price for the developer.
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The apartments development is different from a recent condos development plan in Brush Park that also uses the "Edmund Place" name. That development, by Robertson Brothers Homes, is still in its pre-sales phase and has yet to break ground.
The planned location of Edmund Place was still a vacant lot on July 9, 2025. Of the 57 planned apartments, 24 would be studio units, 30 of them one-bedroom units and three would be two-bedroom units. Several units would be townhouse in style and extend to the ground floor.
Twelve of the apartments would be set aside at below-market rents for those earning no more than 80% of the area median income, which is $56,560 for a single person and $64,640 for two people.
Story ContinuesThe developer hasn't yet disclosed the anticipated asking rents for the building's market-rate units, although Mikho told the Free Press that "the units are designed to be efficient and naturally occurring affordable."
Mikho said Woodward Capital Partners recently completed a full rehab of an eight-unit apartment building at 632 Prentis St. in Midtown.
Prior to its recent resurgence, Detroit's Brush Park had been a sparsely populated neighborhood with large swaths of vacant lots amid a few ramshackle Victorian mansions.
The neighborhood had once been home to the city's wealthiest families from the 1860s into the early 1900s, when more than 400 elegant houses were built. But many of those Gilded Age mansions had sunk into disrepair by the 1970s and were lost to fire, neglect or demolition.
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This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: New 'elegant' apartment building planned for Detroit's Brush Park
