The "Fail Jail" site
The new Wayne County jail on Gratiot in downtown Detroit, which was only partially built before being abandoned, may be home to something far different.
Dan Gilbert’s real estate company, which owns the land, is planning a new life sciences building on the site, according to Dustin Walsh of Crain's Detroit Business, who writes:
This marks the first time building details have been revealed under the current vision for an "innovation district" on the property, colloquially referred to as the "fail jail" site, which has seen development concepts come and go over the last 10-plus years.
This May, Detroit-based Bedrock LLC sought architectural services for a 211,000-square-foot, five-story building as part of a larger development envisioned for the 14-acre property at Gratiot Avenue and I-375 that used to house the half-built Wayne County Consolidated Jail project, according to a request for proposals obtained by Crain’s.
