Almost all of the units at the
Liberty Lofts development in downtown Ann Arbor have been sold.
About 60 of the development’s 68 units have sold as of January. Of those sold units, 53 are occupied.
Liberty Lofts, 315 Second St., has 110,000 square feet of residential space in a five-story, early 20th-century concrete industrial building. Of that space 70,000 square feet is in the original building. There is also a 40,000-square-foot addition. The lofts range in size from 844 to 2,337 square feet.
From the 1920s to the 1980s, the building housed the operations of the King-Seeley Co., which made automotive instruments, and the King-Seeley Thermos Corp. It sits on the border of downtown and the city’s Old West Side, a German-immigrant enclave in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It’s bordered by Liberty, First, William and Second streets.
The lofts emphasize the building’s industrial heritage with open floor plans, exposed mushroom-shaped concrete columns and burnished block concrete walls.
A single-story section of the plant at the corner of Liberty and First streets is also being renovated into commercial space.
Chicago-based Morningside Group is the developer behind Liberty Lofts, along with other urban-based developments in Michigan and the Midwest.
Source: Sharlan Douglas, Douglas Communication Group LLC.
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