The Fort Shelby Hotel's first ten floors are being transformed into the 204-room Fort Shelby Doubletree Guest Suites Detroit. There will be 67 luxury apartments on floors 11-22 and 38,000 square feet of IACC-certified conference space. Ground floor retail will include a bar, a coffee shop and an upscale steakhouse,
Finn & Porter. It will be the fifth location for the national chain.
Excerpt:Work currently underway includes concrete and steel restoration, foundation work and the construction of new elevator pits. The building will be fully enclosed by mid-January.
Next up is the interior rough framing and HVAC, electrical and plumbing work. That work will wrap up at the end of May, which will give way to work beginning on interior finishes in June. Permanent windows are due to be installed in the spring. Project completion is estimated for fall of 2008.
The project is on schedule and at budget, according to Tom Simko, the vice-president of operations at
L.S. Brinker, the project's construction manager. "It appears that all parties are working well together," he says. "My perspective is that it is heading to be a successful project from a schedule and budget standpoint."
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