33 John R. Street

Before and After

Metropolitan Building Metropolitan Building

Metropolitan Building

Year Built: 1925
Developer/Architect: Weston and Ellington
Previous Use: Adaptive reuse/rehab for a hotel

The building originally housed once shops and offices for jewelry manufacturers and wholesalers. The Metropolitan Building closed in 1977 and remained vacant until it was rehabilitated in 2018 for its current use as the Element Detroit at the Metropolitan Hotel.

Project Cost: $33 Million
New Architect: Roxbury Group/Quinn Evans Architects
Year Rehabbed: 2018
Metropolitan Building
Metropolitan Building
Metropolitan Building