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DETROIT BUSINESS MAIN 05-08-06 a 1 CDB.Qxd DETROIT BUSINESS MAIN 05-08-06 A 1 CDB 5/5/2006 6:36 PM Page 1 ® http://www.crainsdetroit.com Vol. 22, No. 19 MAY 8 – 14, 2006 $1.50 a copy; $59 a year ©Entire contents copyright 2006 by Crain Communications Inc. All rights reserved DEVELOPING DETROIT THIS JUST IN Luxury brokerage changes While Roger Penske and Dave Bing take on redevelopment, owners, joins Sotheby’s city officials court another mogul Oakland County luxury residential brokerage Sny- der, Kinney, Bennett & Keat- ing Inc. has changed owners and added an affiliation with the Sotheby’s Interna- Quicken offered 2 Penske, Bing to lead tional Realty network. The Birmingham-based company was acquired by Douglas A. Hardy and Dou- glas H. Hardy, father-and- Detroit sites for HQ Detroit rebuilding son owners of Century 21 To- day Inc. in Farmington Hills. The office will now go as BY ROBERT ANKENY BY ROBERT ANKENY SKBK Sotheby’s International CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS Former Comerica CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS Park Realty. Sotheby’s realty of- Statler fices operate as a franchise uicken Loans/Rock Financial Inc. Hilton Witherell ayor Kwame Kilpatrick was expected to announce today People Madison Ave. group through Cendant has been offered at least two Mover that two Detroit corporate leaders are to head efforts to Corp.’s license agreement Q downtown sites for a new head- Bagley M make Detroit an attractive city in which to work, play and with Sotheby’s Holdings Inc. quarters office building, Detroit’s devel- Hudson’s/ B do business. ro a d Library St. w The office has annual opment czar George Jackson said last Premier a Roger Penske, who spearheaded Detroit’s Super Bowl success, re- y S sales volume of about $300 week. Garage t. portedly has agreed to work with the Downtown Detroit Partnership to million. Terms of the owner- One site is above the Premier Garage Farm lead programs aiming to attract business. Dave Bing will focus on Monroe St. ship change were not dis- on the site of the former J.L. Hudson’s er St. oodward Ave. oodward neighborhood improvement. Campus W closed. Douglas H. Hardy store. The Premier Martius Penske, CEO of UnitedAuto Group Inc., declined comment last week. Randolph St. Washington Blvd. Washington Park Shelby St. Shelby Cass Ave. Cass Brush St. said the arrangement brings is an under- Bates Bing, chairman of The Bing Group, was traveling Friday and could not Beaubien St. new tools and technology to ground park- be reached for comment. Bing launched a project four years ago to SKBK. A client already has ing structure with footings set for con- build 100-150 homes and revi- asked to list a Michigan struction of a high-rise building. talize the neighborhood at home and a farm in France The other is on Grand Circus Park, be- Caniff and Oakland av- through the Sotheby’s net- tween Washington Boulevard and Bagley enues near his main work, he said. The Sotheby’s The sites of Street, site of the former plant. name is more about the level Hudson’s and the Statler Hilton Hotel, which The mayor, city devel- of service than about the Statler Hilton was razed last year. opment officials and the sale price of the property, have been Without naming Downtown Partnership but Oakland County will re- presented to Quicken, Chris Ilitch, want to launch improve- main the focus, Hardy said. Daniel president of Ilitch Hold- See Downtown, Page 25 Robert Gleason will con- Gilbert. ings Inc., said last week tinue as president of SKBK that he would make a On the agenda: A Business Sotheby’s. More than 90 “bold prediction” that a corpo- Improvement District agents will stay. rate headquarters would rise and neighborhood improvement. Nanci Rands, an SKBK on the Statler site. Ilitch Sotheby’s associate broker and president of the Metro- See Quicken, Page 25 politan Consolidated Associa- tion of Realtors, said adding a Sotheby’s office is a vote of confidence for the region. — Jennette Smith HUMMUS OR HOMMUS? Transliterating words Garden Fresh dips into hummus market HFCC names president from languages like Arabic that don’t use the BY BRENT SNAVELY merge the two companies. Garden Fresh is best known for its Henry Ford Community Col- Latin alphabet can be a CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS “It really was a perfect strategic fit 15 varieties of fresh salsa sold in plas- lege has named Gail Mee tricky business. The for us. We view ourselves as the pre- tic containers in the refrigerated deli president, effective July 1. Merriam-Webster Two days after Garden Fresh mier fresh-salsa manufacturer in the sections of grocery stores, including Mee is vice president of dictionary says it’s Gourmet Salsa Inc. acquired country,” Zilko said. “But we just no- Kroger, Meijer, Farmer Jack and Cost- academic affairs at Mesa “hummus.” Inkster-based Gourmet In- ticed a lot of our buyers wanted a co. Community College in Mesa, Basha ternational Foods, Garden hummus presence, and we couldn’t Garden Fresh also produces six Ariz. She replaces Andrew uses Fresh executives were “hommus.” kinds of chip dip, 10 types of tortilla Mazzara, who retired at the meeting with buyers from offer it to them. It was really the only Other end of last year. Sally Bar- Kroger Co. in Cincinnati hole in our program.” chips, eight salad dressings and also variants Garden Fresh, which has annual sells two types of guacamole pro- nett, vice president for ad- include asking the grocery store duced by a supplier from Mexico. ministration and human re- “houmous” and chain to carry Basha hum- sales of nearly $20 million, bought sources, had been serving as “humus.” mus nationally. Gourmet International last Monday Founded in 1990, Gourmet Interna- interim president. The literal That, said Ferndale-based for an undisclosed amount. Gourmet tional makes eight varieties of hum- — Sherri Begin translation? “Hummus” Garden Fresh co-owner and vice pres- International has annual sales of mus, a chickpea-based spread, under means “chickpea.” ident of marketing Dave Zilko, shows about $6 million and sales are expect- the Basha brand. See This Just In, Page 2 how quick and easy it will be to ed to exceed $7 million this year. See Hummus, Page 25 Women make strides Taking laughter at law firms but still to the troops, NEWSPAPER lag men, Page 11 Page 17 DETROIT BUSINESS MAIN 05-08-06 A 2 CDB 5/5/2006 6:47 PM Page 1 Page 2 CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS May 8, 2006 Ferndale lofts to break ground Riverview plant owned by Great She replaces Herman Gray The building was previously THIS JUST IN Lakes Service & Sales for an undis- who was named president of Chil- occupied by MSX International Inc. Troy-based Kirco and Canton closed sum. dren’s in August. — Jennette Smith ■ From Page 1 Township-based Lewiston Develop- Birclar and Gary, Ind.-based — Sherri Begin ment plan to break ground in 30 to Great Lakes both repair electri- New Ave Maria Fund launched 60 days on The Woodward Av- cal motors and other electrical Macy’s to sponsor float at enue Lofts, a 99-loft and retail Marisa buys building and mechanical equipment. The fifth Ave Maria mutual project in Ferndale. Thanksgiving Parade Birclar had 2005 sales of $6.3 mil- Marisa Industries Inc. is expand- fund was launched May 1 by The 140,000-square-foot project lion, and its largest customers Schwartz Macy’s, known for the Macy’s on Woodward north of Nine Mile ing its business in an Auburn Bloomfield Hills-based Thanksgiving Day Parade in New Road includes the lofts and about are General Motors Corp. and Ford Hills industrial building it Investment Counsel Inc. on the fifth York City, has signed on as a float 5,000 square feet of retail. A sales Motor Co. The Great Lakes plant bought in late April from Ply- anniversary of the start of the 2006 America’s sponsor for the office and model are open. had 2005 sales of $2 million, and mouth-based DeMattia Group. first fund, Ave Maria Catholic Thanksgiving Parade organized by Architects on the project are its largest customers were Sever- Paul Hoge, associate broker Ventures Fund, which now has The Parade Co. Christopher Longe of Birming- stal North America Inc. and U.S. and a principal at Signature Asso- more than $250 million in assets. Float and balloon sponsorships ham and Archive DS of Detroit. Steel Corp. ciates in Southfield who sold the Like the other funds, the new range from $25,000 to $125,000, Spokeswoman Cindy Ciura said The combined company has 120,000-square-foot building on fund, Ave Maria Small Cap Fund, said Tavi Fulkerson, president of 10 units have been sold so far. kept the Birclar name, and 14 em- behalf of DeMattia, said Marisa the Bloomfield Hills-based Fulker- will be no-load and will invest — Jennette Smith ployees at the Great Lakes plant planned to immediately move only in companies whose prac- son Group which provides spon- had joined Birclar’s staff of 22 as sorship consulting services to into the property at 1426 Pacific tices do not violate the teachings of May 1. The Parade Co. UM Museum gets $1M gift Drive. The asking price on the of the Catholic Church. The Kiemle-Hankins Co. in Toledo Macy’s, whose parent compa- building was $7.8 million. Auto The other funds are the Ave The University of Michigan Muse- is the parent company of Birclar ny, Federated Department Stores supplier Marisa received a sin- Maria Growth Fund, the Ave um on Friday announced a $1 mil- and Great Lakes.
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