Ex-Joe Louis Training Site In Detroit To Become Restaurant
DETROIT (AP) — Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan says a long-closed recreation center where heavyweight champion Joe Louis once trained will house an upscale restaurant as part of a $50 million development project.
Duggan joined Joe Louis Jr., the developers and others outside the Brewster Wheeler Recreation Center to announce plans for the project.
It's going to include a restaurant operated by Curt Catallo, co-owner of the Vinsetta Garage restaurant in suburban Berkley.
The 52,000-square-foot recreation center closed in 2006 because of municipal budget cuts and was slated for demolition as recent as one year ago before Duggan put out a request for plans to redevelop the building.
Detroit opened the Central Community Center in 1929 and renamed it in 1969 for Leon Wheeler, the city's first black recreation worker.
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