Metropolitan Building

Originally built in 1926 to house wholesale and retail jewelry businesses, the Metropolitan Building anchored Detroit’s then thriving jewelry district in the Broadway, Woodward, and John R area, which included noted establishments such as Wright Kay, Simmons & Clark, and the Meyer Treasure Chest. An early victim of Downtown’s long retail decline, the building closed in 1977, making it the longest vacant structure in Downtown Detroit, when a partnership between the Roxbury Group and Detroit-developer Eric Means , purchased the building in 2016 and has been restored to its original neo-gothic grandeur inside and out. The building now houses a 110-room Element Hotel by Westin, as well as Roxbury’s popular Lone Goat Engish Tavern and Somerset Collection’s Detroit Shoppe on its ground floor. The rooftop of the property is home to the nationally-renowned Monarch Club, also developed and owned by the Roxbury Group.