3 hot new places opening in downtown, Midtown Detroit
from the Freep:
Several long-awaited eating, drinking and hotel establishments are about to open in downtown and Midtown Detroit.
First on the scene will be Punch Bowl Social, a vast 24,000-square-foot restaurant, bar, games and entertainment complex that is set to open Wednesday night in the new Z Garage building at 1331 Broadway in downtown.
Punch Bowl Social will fill two floors, have four separate bars and offer games including bowling, darts, ping pong, shuffle board and 1980s arcade games.
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Up next to open will be HopCat Detroit, a craft beer bar at Woodward and Canfield in Midtown. Construction workers have been laboring late into the nights in recent weeks preparing for Saturday's grand opening. The bar will have more than 100 different beers on tap and is designed for big crowds. HopCat's second floor will be the Huma Room, a live entertainment venue that can hold up to 400 people.
And later next week the 136-room boutique hotel in the newly reopened David Whitney Building is set to open at at 1 Park Avenue downtown. The hotel is part of a $92-million restoration project at the 19-story building, which dates to 1915. The project's 105 high-end market-rate apartments will open to tenants in January. ..................(more)
The complete piece is at:
http://www.freep.com/story/money/business/michigan/2014/12/10/hopcat-whitney-punch-bowl-social-detroit/20183929/