The restaurant group behind suburban hotspots Vinsetta Garage, Clarkston Union, Gran Castor and more is bringing a new restaurant to Detroit proper.

In a joint news release with Olympia Development, Clarkston-based Union Joints announced it would be opening an as-yet-undisclosed dining concept to anchor the Little Caesars headquarters campus expansion at Woodward and Columbia in Detroit.

The 14,000-square-foot space will feature a second-floor patio with elevated views of Comerica Park.

“We’ve always been drawn to buildings that provided something you just couldn’t replicate, and this location — with the Fox and Fillmore as bookends, Comerica Park on its front porch near Little Caesars Arena and Ford Field — is absolutely unimaginable,” said Union Joints co-owner Curt Catallo in the release.

The restaurant group is known for repurposing mostly historic buildings for its restaurants. This new venture, set to become part of the Ilitch's District Detroit development, will be its first new-construction project.

As with other Union Joints, Catallo's wife and business partner Ann Stevenson will be overseeing the design, though she's paired with Tamas von Staden of von Staden Architects on the new project.

The new restaurant joins previously announced Frita Batidos and Sahara Restaurant & Grill on Columbia Street.

According to the release, funding for the new Union Joint has been secured and the goal is to open before the end of the year, but that's contingent upon city approval and other complex moving parts.

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