URGE Development

The work continues. Thank you to our partners at Mannik&Smith Group.

MSG provided civil and geotechnical engineering, landscape design, and surveying services for URGE Development on the Osi Art Apartments at West End in the City of Detroit Government. Quinn Evans Architects serves as the architect of record with Design Art Studio contributing to design of the four-story, mixed-use development providing residential apartments and local retail opportunities. Located on a congested, complicated site less than ½-acre in size, the project required specialized environmental controls, geotechnical investigations and employment of geopiers to address the soil conditions and impacts of prior deployments. URGE strategically located this development to serve neighborhood residents with local commercial needs, cost effective, high quality housing, and low impact considerations including Electric Vehicle (EV) chargers and storm water management BMPs.
Alley-facing façade rendering from VolumeOne Design Studio; © Hard Rock Digital Technology Co. LTD.

When CNBC comes to the city to learn about developers diving into the community executing projects with real value creation and innovation and they choose to lift your team! Cheers to Rod Hardamon for leading the charge and staying true to this.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2021/02/17/local-developers-urge-inclusive-investment-detroit.html

Reflecting on the ground breaking at the Osi @ West End (10.15.2020). This is just the initial phase of developing Detroit's first arts district.

URGE Development has been been engaging communities to ensure neighborhoods are developed with beneficial outcomes for long-standing residents as well as recent transplants. Progressive offerings that excite the imagination while creating a greater sense of community is a hallmark of our work. We welcome you to get to know URGE Development.