WSU offers sites for redevelopment; Five parcels include buildings, vacant land.(News)(Wayne State University)

Crain's Detroit Business, November, 2003

Byline: Robert Ankeny Wayne State University is offering five parcels of property around its midtown campus for redevelopment, including six acres at Woodward and Forest avenues that was the former site of the Vernors ginger ale plant. The ambitious project seeks to attract private investment and expanded residential and commercial growth to the midtown area while ridding the university of surplus real estate, said Larry Marantette of , a Detroit-based real estate project-management company.

WSU is issuing requests for proposals and qualifications from developers on all or any of the properties. The requests, along with floor plates of the buildings to be rehabilitated, are to be on a Web site, bankeny@crain.com