Plan for Middlepointe development in Southfield with 577 apartments gets OK in Lansing
Posted By: Detroit Free Press on April 22, 2025. For more information, please click here to read the source article.
A plan to build 577 units of mixed-income housing and new retail space in Southfield off Evergreen Road took a big step forward April 22.
The $209 million Middlepointe development received approval from the quasi-public Michigan Strategic Fund in Lansing for an incentive, known as a Transformational Brownfield, without which the project is said to not be feasible.
Middlepointe calls for the construction of four buildings as well as a six-story parking deck on an empty 8-acre site at 26011 Evergreen, across the road from Southfield’s municipal campus. The site has been vacant since an office building was demolished there in 2009.
“This is a key corner and remains a visual gap in the heart of the city of Southfield,” Southfield City Administrator Fred Zorn told members of the Michigan Strategic Fund.
Middlepointe’s development team is led by Hassan Jawad, who said that they hope to begin construction in September, have the first building open by August 2026 and complete the development by late 2028.
“This has been a project that has been years in the making,” Jawad said during Tuesday’s virtual meeting of the Michigan Strategic Fund.
The planned buildings are:
- A five-story building with 243 apartments, plus restaurant and commercial space.
- A building with 254 apartments, plus restaurant and retail space
- A five-story building with 80 apartments and restaurant and commercial space.
- A single-story retail structure with 2,250 square feet.
- A six-story parking deck containing about 826 spaces.
Asking rents for the apartments would range from $1,340 for a studio unit to $2,300 for a two-bedroom unit.
Of the 577 planned apartments, 90 would be set aside as “affordable” at below-market rents for individuals and families making no more than 80% of Oakland County’s area median income, or $56,560 for a single person or $72,720 for a family of three.
Middlepointe is the 10th Transformational Brownfield development in Michigan to be approved since the program began in 2017.
The program works by capturing various streams of future local and state-level tax revenues generated at a new development site over 20 to 30 years, then funneling that money to a project’s developers. Those captured revenue streams would include 100% of the state income taxes paid by future apartment dwellers who live in the development, and 50% of the state income taxes paid by future workers in the development’s commercial spaces.
The total value of Middlepointe’s Transformation Brownfield would be $131.8 million over 30 years. The developers are contributing about 22% of the equity for the $209 million project, according to development documents.
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