The community benefits ordinance process for the planned $310 million The Mid project kicks off 6 p.m. Tuesday with a meeting at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Midtown at 4800 Woodward Ave. at Warren Avenue.

The Mid, unveiled last month, is planned to include a pair of high-rise buildings with 25 and 30 stories across two phases on 3.78 acres of vacant land immediately north of the Whole Foods Inc. grocery store at Woodward and Mack avenues.

"This is the initial CBO meeting as we understand it," said Emery Matthews, managing principal of Detroit-based Real Estate Interests, which is one of the developer representatives on the project. "We are presenting the plan again, providing folks the opportunity to ask questions."

City spokesman Tim Carroll said the meeting is an introductory one for the community.

"The city will introduce all the staff and partners working on the project, City Council, the developers, etc. Then the city will give an overview of the CBO process. The developer will also give a brief project overview. Then impact area residents who want to be considered for the NAC (Neighborhood Advisory Council) will be asked to stand up and speak. The meeting will end with a Q&A."

Two NAC members selected by the neighborhood will be selected at the second meeting and the full NAC will be seated by the third meeting, Carroll said.

A 228-room hotel across 16 floors of the 25-story tower on Woodward and 60 luxury condominiums on the nine floors above are planned. In a 30-story tower, there would be about 250 apartments plus first-floor retail space and parking.

To the north of that tower would be a 12-story building with co-living housing across about 240,000 or 250,000 square feet with "a few hundred" units in 10 floors above two floors of retail.

And approximately 750 parking spaces are in the mix, with 325 in a one-level underground garage and 419 spaces in a five-level deck above ground. Between 75,000 and 100,000 square feet of Woodward-facing and other interior retail is planned for things such as smaller neighborhood retail to grocery space.

A document from a Thursday planning commission meeting also reveals new info about the high-rise heights.

The condominium/hotel tower would be 292 feet, putting it between the 305-foot 200 and 300 towers of the Riverfront Towers development (No. 36) and the 290-foot Executive Plaza (No. 38), according to data from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, a nonprofit focused on tall buildings. The multifamily tower would be 365 feet tall, slotting it between the 366-foot Buhl Building (No. 19) and the 349-foot Westin Book Cadillac Detroit hotel (No. 20).

Of course, Dan Gilbert is planning his own cluster of Very Tall Buildings, including the skyscraper on the site of the former J.L. Hudson's department store, which could rise as high as 912 feet, making it the tallest building in the state, and the office and residential towers on the Monroe Blocks project.