DDA Seeks Clear Title on Lafayette Building

DETROIT-The Detroit DDA will spend $350,000 to gain clear title to a vacant Downtown building it hopes to see renovated. A private investor in the building at the corner of Lafayette and Shelby is being bought out.

By Dan Heaton | June 02, 2004 at 08:31 PM

Most recently, it held offices for the Michigan Tax Tribunal and several state Supreme Court justices.

The city owns the building at the corner of Lafayette and Shelby, but several years ago a private investor acquired an interest it, which the DDA will now buy out.

George W. Jackson Jr., a DDA board member and president of Detroit Economic Growth Corp., says the city hopes to lure a developer to renovate the building for offices and lofts.

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