An entity tied to the Ilitch family's Olympia Development of Michigan quietly purchased the Women's City Club building on Park Avenue in downtown Detroit for $5.85 million in January.

According to Wayne County records, an entity called DETWCC LLC sold the building to 2110 Park Avenue LLC.

The former is registered to Eric Larson, CEO of the Downtown Detroit Partnership and president and CEO of Bloomfield Hills-based Larson Realty Group.

The latter does not expressly disclose who is behind it, but city records list the taxpayer address as 2211 Woodward Ave., the headquarters of Olympia Development and Little Caesars. A text message was sent Tuesday evening to an Olympia spokesman seeking comment on future plans for the building, which is 75,000 square feet.

The sale price amounts to $78 per square foot.

City records show Larson paid $4.6 million ($61.33 per square foot) for the William Buck Stratton-designed building at 2110 Park Ave. in December 2015. It was previously owned by developer Charles Forbes.

Olympia is nearing completion of Little Caesars Arena on Woodward, where the Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Pistons will open their respective 2017-18 NHL and NBA seasons this year. It's the anchor for The District Detroit project, a planned multibillion-dollar effort to transform more than 45 blocks of greater downtown around the arena.

The Park Avenue building once housed the Women's City Club, which was founded in 1919 and grew to a membership of more than 8,000 in the 1950s, making it one of the largest in the world. The club left the building in 1975.

Buck Stratton, husband of Pewabic Pottery founder Mary Chase Stratton, also designed the R. Thornton Brodhead Naval Armory along the Detroit River next to Gabriel Richard Park and near the Douglas MacArthur Bridge to Belle Isle.