Archer Market

[Kenosha]

You mean like the 120 lofts plan that TDA rejected?

You mean like the GreenArch project?

[carltonplace]

You mean like the GreenArch project?

Different lot

[jacobi]

You mean like the GreenArch project?

Wait... I thought they were funded.  Is that not happening now?

[SXSW]

Wait... I thought they were funded.  Is that not happening now?

GreenArch is happening...albeit slowly.  120 Lofts was killed by the TDA.  Too bad as it would've been a great project.  The ballpark trust has a development proposal but hasn't released it yet.

[Townsend]

Archer Market is posting on FB that they're still aiming for August.

[TheTed]

This seems to be going at a snail's pace. From looking in the window regularly, it's hard to spot a whole lot of progress. Although the sign about bodies in the fridge does make me chuckle every time.

Pardon my impatience, but we're nearly a year behind the opening date posted earlier in this thread, and three months behind the June open date posted on the Archer Market facebook site a few months back.

[sgrizzle]

This seems to be going at a snail's pace. From looking in the window regularly, it's hard to spot a whole lot of progress. Although the sign about bodies in the fridge does make me chuckle every time.

Pardon my impatience, but we're nearly a year behind the opening date posted earlier in this thread, and three months behind the June open date posted on the Archer Market facebook site a few months back.

Still ahead of Cam's

[TheTed]

Still ahead of Cam's

This sounds like some kind of problem for a philosophy class. Does it really matter when neither one is able to sell me groceries?

I know to add a month or three to every projected opening date for a business, but this is getting ridiculous.

They're exacerbating the problem with the way-too-early facebook presence (especially the post about a June 18 opening date a month or so before June 18).

[BKDotCom]

Still ahead of Cam's

Speaking of Cam's... who pays to rehabilitate the Cam's bldg?    Before Cam's moved in, the place had a floor and windows... twas a covered parking garage.
Now it has a dirt floor, broken/boarded windows, and I think a spotty roof.

[sgrizzle]

Speaking of Cam's... who pays to rehabilitate the Cam's bldg?    Before Cam's moved in, the place had a floor and windows... twas a covered parking garage.
Now it has a dirt floor, broken/boarded windows, and I think a spotty roof.

Matches at least one other property with the same owner.

[Boksooner]

This seems to be going at a snail's pace. From looking in the window regularly, it's hard to spot a whole lot of progress. Although the sign about bodies in the fridge does make me chuckle every time.

Pardon my impatience, but we're nearly a year behind the opening date posted earlier in this thread, and three months behind the June open date posted on the Archer Market facebook site a few months back.

I am right with you. I moved downtown a few months ago and expected to soon have two grocery stores within walking/biking from work and home. I know Blake has a lot of projects, but it would be nice to cut out my weekly drive to Reasor's.

[JoeMommaBlake]

Archer Market is being built out by the building's owner, not by me or a contractor that I've hired. I have no control over that finish date. The dates that have been previously reported were generated by construction crew and shared with us. The construction plans have clearly not gone according to schedule and there have been several snags, most of them regarding the exhaust vents. It's important to note that the owner is also building out The Aloft Hotel, Vandever Lofts, and Rusty Crane at the same time, so the crew is split between several jobs. We're making progress over there and are, of course, excited about being open.

I can move in when it's built. I've hired staff and am ready to get going, but am waiting for it to be finished. I don't take over the project until we have a certificate of occupancy. My understanding is that we'll have one within days. This is not typically how we do things. I usually own the building and either contract the job myself or hire a contractor. On this one, we don't own the building and are not involved in the contracting or construction of the project. We made the plans, but they're building it. I'll do the decorating when the space is move-in ready.

It's also important to note that I haven't been aggressively pushing the construction. I also have other projects under construction, existing businesses to run, and am spending a great deal of time at City Hall these days. These guys have been great to work with and we're excited about being tenants of the Detroit Lofts.

Anyway, when I get that CO, I'll still have to decorate it, stock it, staff it completely, and then train the staff.

I'm sorry that it's taken so long. I'll give you a free ice cream when we open. Ice cream makes everything better.

Thanks,
Blake

[rdj]

May I have free ice cream as well?

[BKDotCom]

Mmm.. Ice Cream
I think an ice-cream parlor would complement the brady district well.... especially now that the park is open
(Tulsa has no gourmet/homemade ice cream shop...   Mod's gelato is the closest we've got)

[rdj]

Do the custard shops not make their own?  What about all the frozen yogurt places?