The Detroit News. The building on Brush between Harmonie Park and Greektown once housed a German language newspaper and a mannequin supplier. They found it in a building at 1442 Brush that once housed a newspaper and a mannequin maker. When we saw the building, we saw a tremendous opportunity for loft offices. Ferlito has leased three of the building's four floors to Detroit Office Interiors, an office furniture dealer, to use as a showroom.
Negotiations are under way to put a restaurant on the first floor.
Sharing space with the paper was Mario's Mannequins, a supplier of plastic department store models, which was in business 53 years before it closed in 1996. For three years, the building sat unoccupied and began to decay. Once Ferlito and partners Brian Pastoria and Ernie Zachary saw the structure, they wanted a piece of the booming renovation taking place in areas adjacent to the stadium district. Detroit Office Interiors had been looking for a new place to display its office designs and furniture. So, the appeal was to get involved in the Detroit market here because it's an exciting area.