The project, slated for 1475 E. Jefferson Ave. between Rivard and Riopelle streets, is planned to have 213 apartments, 221 parking spaces for residents and 120 spaces for shoppers, according to the website of Bloomfield Hills-based Lormax Stern Development Co. LLC, one of the project's developers along with Dennis Archer Jr. and Marcel Burgler. The Lormax website page was deactivated Wednesday afternoon.

The project is expected to open in 2019.

Meijer is working on a small-format store of similar size in Grand Rapids under the name Bridge Street Market to open early next year. It's not clear if the Detroit store will bear the Meijer name or another name.

Christopher Brochert, partner of Lormax Stern, declined to confirm the grocer's identity Wednesday morning but said the project has been in the works for three or four years.

An email sent to a Meijer spokesman Wednesday morning was not immediately returned.

Brochert said 20 percent of the 213 units are being built for low-income residents. He said Detroit-based Neumann Smith Architecture is working on the project, but declined to identify the general contractor retained.

Burgler, principal for Grand Rapids-based Prime Development, declined comment and referred questions to Archer Jr.