Bedrock Gratiot site
1400 St. Antoine St.
What does it look like?
2024 rendering of the proposed Gratiot project. Image credit: Courtesy of Bedrock
What's happening?
Bedrock announced plans in late 2024 for the 14-acre Gratiot Innovation District, including the Gratiot Life Science Building with tenant BAMF Health.
Previously:
The future of the downtown site at Gratiot and St. Antoine has been in flux for over a decade. Construction began on a new Wayne County jail in 2011, but stalled midway in 2013 due to cost overruns and corruption charges. In 2016, Dan Gilbert and Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores proposed building a Major League Soccer stadium; the plans were later scrapped. Dan Gilbert's Bedrock took ownership of the site in 2018 through a land swap deal, in which Bedrock would develop a new jail (currently under construction) at I-75 and Warren and pay part of the costs. The so-called "fail jail" on Gratiot was demolished that year. In 2019, Bedrock announced a partnership with developer Stephen Ross and the University of Michigan to build the Detroit Center for Innovation on the site; in July 2021 that partnership dissolved and a new home for DCI in the District Detroit was announced. Bedrock still intends to develop a large mixed-use "innovation district." In August 2021, the real estate management company announced a partnership with the World Economic Forum to launch a new Global Centre for Urban Transformation in Detroit, to initially be located in another downtown Bedrock property, with the intention to relocate to the Gratiot site in the future.
Sources: BridgeDetroit, Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Urbanize Detroit
What are the property details?
| Parcel ID: | 03000244-77 |
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| Taxpayer: | ROCK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GROUP |
| Taxpayer address: | 630 WOODWARD AVENUE DETROIT MI 48226 |
| Dimensions: | 0 ft by 0 ft |
| Parcel ID: | 03000239. |
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| Taxpayer: | ROCK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GROUP |
| Taxpayer address: | 630 WOODWARD AVENUE DETROIT MI 48226 |
| Dimensions: | 0 ft by 0 ft |
Where is it?
Updates
July 1, 2025: Approved: Zoning modification | Detroit City Council
To amend Chapter 50 of the 2019 Detroit City Code, Zoning, by amending Article XVII, Zoning District Maps, Section 50-17-3, District Map No. 2, to modify the development regulations for the existing PD Planned Development District zoning classification, as established by Ordinance No. 42-95, for the western portion of the property commonly known as 1326 St. Antoine, generally bounded by Clinton Street to the north, the 1-375 Chrysler Service Drive to the east, Macomb Street to the south, and St. Antoine to the west, to allow for a life sciences cancer research and patient treatment center with supportive medical and learning spaces and to also allow for uses that are permissible in the B5 Major Business District zoning classification. INTRODUCE