# Industrial Building

Detroit, MI · office-park · tier: draft · Retrofit Atlas record `n-db06d3ef5b` · release 2026-10-21

Canonical: https://retrofitatlas.org/office-parks/mi/detroit-industrial-building/  
JSON: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/n-db06d3ef5b.json · Provenance: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/n-db06d3ef5b.provenance.json · API: https://retrofitatlas.org/api/v1/sites/n-db06d3ef5b

## Facts

| Field | Value | Provenance |
|---|---|---|
| Status | operating | none |
| Strategy | reinhabit | none |
| New use | housing | none |
| What is there now | Park Place Apartments | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |

## Timeline

- 1928: Completed as an office building
- 2003: Fire temporarily displaced residents

## Background (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, shortened)

The Industrial Building is a high-rise building located at 1410 Washington Boulevard in downtown Detroit, Michigan, within the Washington Boulevard Historic District. It occupies the northeast corner on Grand River Avenue and Washington Boulevard.
The building stands 22 storeys tall, with 21 above-ground floors, and one basement level. It was completed in 1928, and is one of the many structures built by architect Louis Kamper on Washington Boulevard in the 1910s and 1920s. Kamper designed the Industrial Building with a mixture of Art Deco, Gothic Revival and Beaux-Arts architectural designs.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Building_(Detroit)

## Sources

- Industrial Building (Detroit) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Building_(Detroit)

## Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Industrial Building, Detroit, MI." Record n-db06d3ef5b, release 2026-10-21, tier draft. https://retrofitatlas.org/office-parks/mi/detroit-industrial-building/ (accessed 2026-10-21).

```bibtex
@misc{retrofitatlas_detroitindustrialbuilding,
  title = {Industrial Building, Detroit, MI},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/office-parks/mi/detroit-industrial-building/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record n-db06d3ef5b, release 2026-10-21, tier: draft. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-21}
}
```

Licence: research use only; terms undecided with the authors (https://retrofitatlas.org/licence/). Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0. Tiers: curated = from the authors' public map, not reviewed by them; draft = imported or model-extracted, unreviewed.