Photo by Aaron Eckels. The city of Dearborn sold its City Hall on Michigan Avenue in the east downtown area to a Minneapolis-based developer that converted the three-building campus into 53 lofts and artists’ space.
What to do when you want to move your city government operations to a more central location?
Ask the city of Dearborn, which sold its old City Hall on Michigan Avenue in the east downtown area to a Minneapolis-based developer that converted the three-building campus into 53 lofts.
Sure, lofts aren’t atypical conversions in the development community.
But here’s what is: the original space itself, and ancillary space in the new development for entrepreneurs and artists; office space for creative businesses and nonprofits; and space for an artist-in-residency program and art galleries.
The ensuing development, the City Hall Artspace Lofts, welcomed its first residents to the $16.5 million redevelopment of the 1920s buildings Jan. 1.
Source: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160402/NEWS/160339963/former-dearborn-city-headquarters-becomes-space-for-artists
