http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=local&id=5719610
FLINT (WJRT) - (10/22/07)-- A multi-million dollar renovation project for a historic hotel in downtown Flint gets underway later today.
This is the latest in a series of projects that will get underway in the Carriage Town neighborhood. When this project at the Berridge Hotel is finished, there will be 21 new condos in downtown Flint.
The Genesee County Land Bank is heading up the $6 million project, which calls for renovation of the old hotel inside and out. Each of the units will be about 1,000 square feet and will have either a loft or townhome style design. Sizes will range from one to three bedrooms.
You may remember in February, a fire damaged part of the building, but didn't stop the plans to renovate the building.
Plans also include turning the old Tinlinn House, right near the Berridge, into four rental units.
This is the next step in the Land Bank's plans to revitalize the Carriage Town neighborhood. The group last month announced it would place eight new homes and renovate several others along Stone Street.
That project is expected to be completed by the summer.
In the meantime, the Bringing Back the Berridge project kicks off this morning at 11. The public is invited to tour and learn more about the building at 421 Garland Street.
The Berridge Place Project is expected to be finished sometime next year.
http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=local&id=5720619
(this one has a nice video!)
FLINT (WJRT) - (10/22/07)--In downtown Flint , a building that has been known for decades as "last-resort" housing will soon get a new look and a new image.
But before the major transformation begins, developers decided to give the public one last chance to take a look inside the old, run down Berridge Hotel.
Floors feel like they're going to give way. Broken windows and plumbing and electrical bathroom fixtures are ripped out throughout the building. But the structure of the building seems sound.
Developers say they will be totally gutting the inside the of the building but maintaining the structure of the outside walls and some features in the lobby as part of a $6 million renovation project.
The financial package from government -- as well as some local foundations -- is already in place.
The project will move ahead immediately to turn the 70-year-old building and the Tinnin building next door into 21 loft apartments with an upscale look intended to draw people to downtown living.
What is significant about this project, officials say, is that the building -- which has functioned as housing of last resort for the city's poor -- could soon function as an attraction for the city center.
Renovation will begin within days.
The two- and three-bedroom apartments will be ready for occupancy by this summer. They'll range in size from 855 to 1,500 square feet. They start at $960 a month.
And even before they're built, the project is attracting spinoff development right across the street.
2 comments:
Becky-tell your brother I love the whole thing that is going on in the area. I remember what it looked like in its prime and I think I fell in love with buildings and architecture because of the unusual buildings in Flint.
Now HE has to do something about the overgrown trees in HIS yard, cause every time I drive by his house, I want to stop and take my clippers with me! The overgrown trees are hiding that beautiful house!
I think of you every afternoon on my way home when I drive past his house! :-)
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