Book-Cadillac developer expects to announce deal is final today

The long-anticipated $176 million financing package to restore the Book-Cadillac Hotel, once a symbol of Detroit money and style, will be declared a sealed deal on Tuesday, June 27, according to a spokesman for the Cleveland developer behind the project.

The announcement will come at a 5 p.m. event at the Detroit Athletic Club, where Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and developer John Ferchill will unveil plans to renovate the 33-floor downtown skyscraper that closed 22 years ago, said Bob Berg, a Detroit-based spokesman for Ferchill, the Ohio developer.

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