Monday, December 24, 2012

Rock Ventures Wraps Up 2012 with Purchase of Five Downtown Detroit Properties


  
Dan Gilbert
 DETROIT, MI /PRNewswire/ -- Rock Ventures announced the purchase of five additional properties, wrapping up a year in which it acquired eight buildings totaling 630,000 square feet of commercial space.

The newest acquisitions bring Rock Ventures' downtown Detroit real estate investments to 15 buildings totaling 2.6 million square feet of commercial space, and three parking structures for a combined 3,500 parking spaces.

In addition, Rock Ventures broke ground on a 33,000 square-foot specialty retail development and 10-story parking garage last month, renovated 633,000 square feet of commercial space, and located 45 companies to the city, including Twitter, Chrysler, Metro-West Appraisal, and numerous technology related start-ups.

Rock Ventures' family of companies, including Quicken Loans and Title Source, has brought 7,000-plus people to work in downtown Detroit since August 2010.

"It has been an exciting year of opportunity in Detroit," said Dan Gilbert, Founder and Chairman of Rock Ventures and Quicken Loans.  "Our focus in 2013 will be on the three R's - residential, rail and retail - all of which are vital in creating the vibrant, thriving urban core that we all envision."

For a complete copy of the company’s news release, please contact:

Paula Silver,
+1-313-373-7255

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