Historic Fort Wayne Request for Information

The City of Detroit General Services Department is seeking partner entities to help revitalize and activate Historic Fort Wayne through the rehabilitation and adaptive use of the site’s many vacant buildings. Respondents must have the capacity to rehabilitate and occupy or operate one or more buildings at Historic Fort Wayne uses compatible and appropriate in a historic park setting.

Please use the links below to view the Request for Information (RFI) and related documents.

Historic Fort Wayne Request for Information

The RFI is now closed. For inquires regarding future opportunities, please contact the General Services Department staff by email at [email protected] or by phone at (313) 628-0796.

Appendix A: Historic Fort Wayne Parking Plan

Appendix B: Phase I Environmental Site Assessment

Appendix C: Historic Fort Wayne Master Plan

Appendix D: 2015 Community Visioning Workshop Maps

Appendix E: Draft Preservation Covenant

Appendix F: Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation

Press Release: City of Detroit Seeks to Revitalize Historic Fort Wayne

Building Information

Featured Buildings

Selected buildings that, due to their condition, location, or other features, are prime candidates for rehabilitation and adaptive use.

Building 108: Duplex Officer's Quarters
Year Built: 1890 | Current Use: Vacant | Square Feet: 4,672 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $650,000 to $934,400

Building 109: Duplex Officer's Quarters
Year Built: 1880 | Current Use: Event Space* | Square Feet: 4,837 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $640,000 to $974,600

Building 114: Officer's Quarters (photos)
Year Built: 1906 | Current Use: Vacant (first and second floors); Public Restrooms (Basement)* | Square Feet: 8,574 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $500,000 to $857,400

Building 201: Post Engineer's Storehouse
Year Built: 1897 | Current Use: Vacant/Storage | Square Feet: 5,640 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $235,000 to $564,000

Building 207: Post Headquarters (photos)
Year Built: 1904 | Current Use: Vacant | Square Feet: 7,920 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $1,118,000

Building 302: Guard House (photos)
Year Built: 1905 | Current Use: Vacant | Square Feet: 4,730| Rehab Cost Estimates: $709,500 to $770,000

Building 303: Post Theatre (photos)
Year Built: 1930 | Current Use: Vacant | Square Feet: 3,470 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $520,500 to $760,000

Building 313: Post Bakery
Year Built: 1904 | Current Use: Vacant | Square Feet: 1,000 | Rehab Cost Estimates: not available

Additional Buildings

Buildings primarily suitable for inclusion as part of a larger, comprehensive project.

Building 102: Duplex Officer's Quarters
Year Built: 1898 | Current Use: Vacant | Square Feet: 7,624 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $1,260,000 to $1,580,000

Building 103: Duplex Officer's Quarters
Year Built: 1898 | Current Use: Vacant | Square Feet: 7,624 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $1,260,000 to $1,580,000

Building 104: Duplex Officer's Quarters
Year Built: 1898 | Current Use: Vacant | Square Feet: 7,624 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $1,260,000 to $1,580,000

Building 105: Duplex Officer's Quarters
Year Built: 1890 | Current Use: Vacant | Square Feet: 4,672 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $650,000 to $934,400

Building 106: Duplex Officer's Quarters
Year Built: 1890 | Current Use: Vacant | Square Feet: 4,672 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $650,000 to $934,400

Building 107: Duplex Officer's Quarters
Year Built: 1890 | Current Use: Vacant | Square Feet: 4,672 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $650,000 to $934,400

Building 111: Duplex Officer's Quarters
Year Built: 1890 | Current Use: Storage* | Square Feet: 4,672 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $650,000 to $934,400

Building 117: Officer's Quarters
Year Built: 1906 | Current Use: Vacant | Square Feet: 7,732 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $740,000 to $1,546,400

Building 205: Guard House
Year Built: 1889 | Current Use: Events* | Square Feet: 1,814 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $272,100

Building 211: Noncommissioned Officer's Quarters 
Year Built: 1931 | Current Use: Vacant | Square Feet: 2,920 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $395,000 to $637,500

Building 212: Noncommissioned Officer's Quarters
Year Built: 1900 | Current Use: Vacant | Square Feet: 2,920 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $690,000 to $876,000

Building 213: Noncommissioned Officer's Quarters
Year Built: 1905 | Current Use: Vacant | Square Feet: 2,920 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $690,000 to $876,000

Building 214: Noncommissioned Officer's Quarters
Year Built: 1897 | Current Use: Vacant | Square Feet: 2,920 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $690,000 to $876,000

Building 215: Noncommissioned Officer's Quarters
Year Built: 1931 | Current Use: Vacant | Square Feet: 2,920 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $395,000 to $876,000

Building 216: Noncommissioned Officer's Quarters
Year Built: 1939 | Current Use: Vacant | Square Feet: 2,550 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $600,000 to $750,000

Building 217: Noncommissioned Officer's Quarters
Year Built: 1939 | Current Use: Vacant | Square Feet: 2,550 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $600,000 to $750,000

Building 218: Noncommissioned Officer's Quarters 
Year Built: 1939 | Current Use: Vacant | Square Feet: 2,550 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $510,000 to $750,000

Building 219: Noncommissioned Officer's Quarters
Year Built: 1939 | Current Use: Vacant | Square Feet: 2,330 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $510,000 to $750,000

Building 222: Stable
Year Built: 1890 | Current Use: Storage* | Square Feet: 4,672 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $220,000 to $1,659,220

Building 311: Enlisted Men's Barracks
Year Built: 1894 | Current Use: Vacant | Square Feet: 21,684 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $5,240,000 to $6,972,000

Building 312: Service Club and Post Gymnasium (Visitors Center)
Year Built: 1903 | Current Use: Events* | Square Feet: 17,867 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $2,680,050

Building 314: Enlisted Men's Barracks
Year Built: 1906 | Current Use: Vacant/Storage* | Square Feet: 21,684 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $3,525,600 to $6,550,000

Building 507: Barracks
Year Built: 1848 | Current Use: Events* | Square Feet: 29,400 | Rehab Cost Estimates: $1,415,000 to $4,400,000

Additional building information will be added here as it becomes available.

*Proposals for any occupied building are strongly encouraged to include a strategy for the continuation of any existing uses.