New Center Council (NCC) acquired 2990 W. Grand Boulevard last summer, along with the
adjacent park and parking lot just west. The agency has been renovating the commercial building suite by suite and the work is yielding new tenants. Project manager Jim Winter says that activating the building is good for the neighborhood -- which is exactly what NCC is tasked to do. "Being owned by a nonprofit, everything (about the building) flows out to the community."
Winter estimates that about a quarter of the building's 43,000 square feet of leasable space has been improved. Tenants include Lawrence Technological University's Detroit architecture studio, Connections for Deaf Citizens, Detroit Chiropractic, Enviromac and -- the newest and largest tenant -- SER Metro Careers for Life Center, which occupies the entire fourth floor.
Despite the 6,500 square feet occupied by Careers for Life, Winter says the building's smaller spaces are being snapped up more quickly.
"For the most part, people don't want to come in and take over 4,000 square feet, so we are downsizing, making smaller offices by breaking suites into two," he says. "That is our niche, (for smaller tenants) to still be able to have a professional building, with full security systems and a security team on staff."
Contact Winter at 313-872-0188 to arrange for a walk-through.
Source: Jim Winter, New Center Council
Writer: Kelli B. Kavanaugh
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