A $32 million development is planned for three-quarters of an acre of Sugar Hill Arts District property that is planned to bring 84 new apartments to the greater downtown market, the city announced Friday morning.

A joint venture between Sonya Mays of Detroit-based Develop Detroit LLC and Rodger Brown of the Preservation of Affordable Housing Inc. is leading the development, of which 25 percent of the units (21 units) are expected to be affordable to people making between 50 percent to 80 percent of the area median income, which is between about $26,000 and $40,000 per year.

The $400,000 land sale on Garfield Street off John R is expected to go before City Council this year, with the project breaking ground in September 2018, according to a news release.

The Sugar Hill project — which is also slated to include 7,000 square feet of retail space and a 300-space parking deck — is being designed by architect Michael Poris of McIntosh Poris Associates, which has offices in Detroit and Birmingham, and Phil Freelon, who designed the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., according to a release. He also worked on Atlanta's National Center for Civil Rights and San Francisco's Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco.