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Photo by: John Dixon/The News-Gazette Gameday Spirit , at the corner of Sixth and Green streets in Champaign, will be demolished in June to make way for a 14-story tower, Bankier Apartments' tallest apartment building yet. Bankier has been planning the project since buying the lot 4 years ago . Other Related Content CHAMPAIGN — After 4 years of planning, Bankier Apartments is about to embark on its tallest apartment building yet — a 14-story building at the southwest corner of Sixth and Green streets. The tower will be constructed on the site now occupied by Gameday Spirit , Hair Benders and Beri Frozen Yogurt & Roll Model. The building will have commercial space on the first floor, parking on the second through fourth floors, a lounge for tenants on the fifth floor and apartments on the sixth through 14th floors, said Miriam Booth, managing broker for Bankier Apartments. "We're going to be starting our demolition on June 1," Booth said. The project is expected...

Quizzes Lists Topics Save The River Terrace Apartments is an apartment building located at 7700 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. [1] River Terrace Apartments was one of the first two garden apartment complexes built in Michigan which used loan guarantees from the Federal Housing Administration , the other being Hillcrest Village in East Lansing. [2] History By the late 19th century , the corridor along East Jefferson Avenue had become a prestigious residential neighborhood . As the automobile age dawned in the twentieth century and Detroit's population boomed, large upscale apartment buildings were constructed along the Avenue. However, this boom in apartment construction collapsed at the start of the Great Depression. However, in 1939, Wesson Seyburn, along with Leonard P. Reaume, of the property management firm of Holden & Reaume, applied for a building permit to construct this apart...