The Detroit News. Corvus was given until May 1 to begin work on the hotel-office phase. It will be up to the council what they want to do next. Some council members appear to be leaning toward a major change in plans at the site, the gateway to Royal Oak.
Market value is now double that.
And we haven't heard from Corvus in nine months. But ambitious plans often hit bumps bigger than any chuckhole ever seen along Woodward. An associate in the initial project dropped out two years ago and Morris found another partner in Tri-Mount of Novi. Offices would require too many additional parking spaces that would be difficult to achieve in the vacant four acres, he explained. Ex-commissioner Michael Andrzejak now believes developers never intended to build anything but condos on the site.