Mansion could shatter city’s sale record

Estate in Palmer Woods hits market

BY NICK MANES

e Bishop Mansion in Detroit’s Palmer Woods neighborhood once held the title of most expensive home sale in the city.

It’s primed to retake that crown.

At more than 32,000 square feet, the mansion once owned by former Detroit Pistons star John Salley is said to be the largest single residence in the city. e more than 100-year-old estate north of Seven Mile Road and west of Woodward Avenue set records when it was bought by out-ofstate investors in 2017 for more than $2.5 million.

It was set to hit the market again last Friday at an asking price of $9 million, a sale anywhere near that mark would shatter the record set last year by the $4.9 million sale of the nearby Fisher mansion. former Eaton Foundry property, is built on the fundamentals of kaizen, a Japanese manufacturing principle structured around lean operations and continuous process improvement. Frank DeNardo Jr., Canapa’s co-owner and primary funder, believes his operations are so e cient, the company can be successful while marijuana prices remain near historic lows.

With an asking price of about $277 per square foot, a sale at that price point would outpace the Fisher home — bought by Stellantis North America COO Mark Stewart and Antonio Gamez Galaz — by about $30 per square foot.

While still undergoing signicant interior construction, as well as exterior landscaping work, the home has already received modern mechanical engineering work, according to Amanda Uhlianuk and Laura Hatcher, sisters who are leading construction management, interior design and listing the property on behalf of the unidenti ed California sellers.