Monroe Blocks plan gets new direction

Concert venue among changes

BY KIRK

paying for these treatments — which can top $2 million per regimen — terri ed of what decision may come, according to experts.

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Dan Gilbert’s Bedrock LLC is proposing a new, phased vision for the Monroe Blocks site downtown that calls for repurposing the National eatre facade for a new 2,000-seat concert venue. e development shift for the

3.66-acre site in the central business district also recon gures the programming to include 250 to 280 residential units, down from 482 that were originally conceived, and about 400,000 square feet of o ce space, a reduction from 857,000 square feet that were in the previous vision.

A retail, restaurant and market hall component, clocking in at

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