Fans of Detroit architecture, design, landscaping, and city planning—rejoice! An exhibit coinciding with the Detroit Design Festival showcases 38 innovative development ideas in practice and in the pipeline around Detroit.

Detroit Design 139 opens to the public Thursday, September 14 at 1001 Woodward, right across from Campus Martius. The exhibit will have docents for those coming in to see who have questions, along with planned events engaging the community in the future of Detroit design.

It’s like one of our best development maps on display.

The exhibit is divided into seven sections: the Riverfront, Urban Design, Neighborhood Planning, Mix Tape (Commercial Corridor Strategies), U of M Design Studio projects, Adaptive Reuse, and New Construction.

Out of the 38 projects featured, 18 are located outside the 7.2 mile downtown core. Director of Detroit City Planning Maurice Cox said that he hopes this exhibit will showcase the wide range of projects happening throughout the city and drive a community conversation in all 139 square miles of the city.

An international jury selected the top projects to be on display. The City Planning Department also brought in a wide variety of projects focused on neighborhood redevelopment. The exhibit includes new construction such as True North, innovative adaptive reuse projects like the Foundation Hotel, and a wide range of plans for the East Riverfront redesign.

A few other designs to note: a display on the State Fairgrounds project,renderings for the North End building with the Illuminated Mural, and an U of M project for a Sky Bar across from Eastern Market.

Melissa Dittmer, Bedrock’s Vice President of Architecture + Design, hopes this is the first of a biannual event where we can take a look at what has happened and what’s to come. Many areas of the city are not currently represented in this design exhibit. But as development grows and we continue these conversations, she says these ideas will continue to move from visionary to implementation.

Detroit Design 139 is open to the public from 12-7 p.m. daily starting on September 14. More information can be found here.