Demand drives office/flex construction in west suburbs

Originally Published: March 16, 2014 8:00 AMModified: March 16, 2014 8:47 PM

COURTESY OF ETKIN LLC

Etkin LLC plans to build Victor East along I-275.

Large office/flex real estate projects in the western suburbs of Wayne and Oakland counties:

100,000 square feet for a University of Michigan outpatient care facility on the northeast corner of Seven Mile and Haggerty roads in Northville Township Developer: Schostak Bros. & Co., Livonia. Cost: $39 million. Status: Under construction, opening in July

54,000 square feet of office/flex space at Seven Mile Road and Victor Parkway at Victor East in Livonia. Developer: Etkin LLC, Southfield. Cost: $8.5 million. Status: Seeking tenants

Two buildings, one of 50,000 square feet of flex space and one of 60,000 square feet of flex space at Beck and West roads in the Beck North Corporate Park in Novi. Developer: Amson Dembs Development Inc., Novi Cost: Part of $25 million in development at Beck North between 2013 and 2014. Status: Project ground-breaking by May for smaller building; construction by the end of summer for larger one.

54,000 square feet of office/flex space north of 13 Mile Road, west of Haggerty Road in the Haggerty Corridor Corporate Park in Novi. Developer: Northern Equities Group, Farmington Hills. Cost: $5.5 million. Status: Construction to begin by June

Sources: CoStar Group Inc.; Schostak Bros. & Co.; Etkin LLC; Northern Equities Group; Amson Dembs Development Inc.

Very low vacancy for specific types of modern flexible or office spaces in western Wayne and Oakland counties is tipping off a wave of new construction.

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Demand drives office/flex construction in west suburbs