Starwood Hotels & Resorts intends to transform Detroit’s historic Metropolitan Building – vacant more than 40 years – into a high-end mixed-use development featuring its eco-hotel brand Element Hotels.
The 100,000-square-foot hotel in the Motor City landmark will be owned and constructed by Metropolitan Hotel Partners LLC, a joint venture between Detroit-based Means Group and Roxbury Group. It is scheduled to open in July 2018.
The neo-gothic 14-story structure, once known as the Jewelers Building, opened in 1925 as a jewelry emporium.