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- Apartments range from $3,300 for a one-bedroom to $14,500 for a penthouse.
- Early residents include auto executives, professional athletes and empty nesters.
A new high-end apartment building has opened in downtown Birmingham and is quickly filling up with auto executives, professional athletes and well-to-do empty nesters.
The six-story Birmingham Pointe, situated off Woodward Avenue at 707 S. Worth St., offers resort-style living for residents of its 152 rental units, and comes packed with swanky finishes and amenities: a fifth-floor pool and spa, a clubhouse and games lounge, concierge service, a European-styled courtyard and a 5,000-square-foot gym.
The apartments themselves feature designs that are relatively unique to the metro Detroit market, including some two-story units with separate entrances to the interior courtyard or outside streets.
The elevated living arrangements are reflected in the building’s asking rents. The least expensive one-bedroom apartment, at 742 square feet, goes for $3,300 per month, and prices rise from there to more than $5,000 a month for the largest one-bedroom units.
The two-bedrooms start around $5,200 per month and go up to $7,400. And the 10 penthouse units on the sixth floor command their own price-point territory, which starts at $12,000 a month and maxes out around $14,500.
Birmingham Pointe is situated behind the downtown Walgreens store and was built on the former site of a bank and office building. The developer was a partnership of three local firms: The Forbes Co., Hunter Pasteur Homes and Soave Real Estate. The building’s design architect was Christopher J. Longe and its architect of record was Neumann/Smith.
“It is bringing something different and new to downtown Birmingham’s Triangle District,” Nico Schultz, a senior vice president for Soave Enterprises, said May 6 during a tour of the building. “This property is the biggest development that’s come to Birmingham over the last 40 years and certainly is the most sophisticated to date — there’s no question.”
The building opened on April 1 and 25 of the apartments have already leased, the developers said, including three of the penthouses. The developers said they expect the building to more or less lease out by year’s end.
Hunter Pasteur CEO Randy Wertheimer said they set out with a goal “to create the nicest apartment development in the Midwest.”
“We think we’ve accomplished that,” he said. “This is one of one; there is nothing like it anywhere in Michigan or anywhere else nearby.”
Wertheimer said the building’s early residents have an array of backgrounds, including pro athletes, a few highly successful young people and older couples who felt it was time to simplify their lives and sell a former residence.
What’s more, he added, “We’re finding a demographic that we didn’t originally think of. We’re getting some auto executives (for whom) this may not be their primary residence, but they spend 10 or 15 days a month here.”
Each floor in the building also has storage rooms, which can be helpful for residents who are downsizing from a house and can’t quite fit their belongings into one apartment.
The project’s development team has been collaborating on a series of similar upscale new buildings in the region, including the 212-unit Apex West Bloomfield that opened last summer.
This story was updated to include new information.
Contact JC Reindl: 313-378-5460 or jcreindl@freepress.com. Follow him on X @jcreindl
