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The Beaufait Street building that housed Spot Lite Detroit is listed for $1,750,000 as owners Roula David and Jesse Cory step away from nightlife at the end of June.
The Islandview building that has been home to Spot Lite Detroit is now listed for sale at $1,750,000.
The property sits at 2905 Beaufait Street, on the corner of Beaufait and Charlevoix on Detroit's lower east side. O'Connor Real Estate is handling the listing, which puts the building at 22,000 square feet, built in 1942 and renovated in 2017. The listing describes open event space, an existing cafe, bar, and hospitality buildout, private offices, storage and support areas, multiple points of entry, and an outdoor courtyard. The agency pitches it for uses ranging from retail and galleries to studios and event programming, minutes from Downtown, Eastern Market, Belle Isle, and the riverfront.
The building is coming to market as Spot Lite closes after five years. Roula David and Jesse Cory, who run the Detroit art print studio 1xRun and opened the venue in 2021, set June 28 as Spot Lite's last night. David is also closing UFO Bar at 2110 Trumbull in Corktown, a space she took over in 2024, with its final night on June 30.
"With a lot of thought and consideration, we have decided to close this chapter in our lives and move away from nightlife," the owners wrote in announcing the closures.
Spot Lite opened in 2021 as an extension of 1xRun, the print shop and gallery behind Murals in the Market. David's resume also includes the City Walls program and other public art work across Detroit. The Beaufait building grew into a single address that held a record store, a gallery, and a full bar, with Cairo Coffee keeping the daytime hours and the creative studio SMPLFD in its own space. Tucked a few miles from the busier corridors of Downtown and Midtown, the venue built its own following among regulars who came for the records and the events as much as the drinks.
Not everything at the address goes dark at once. Cairo Coffee plans to stay at 2905 Beaufait temporarily while it looks for a permanent home, and the Corktown space is set to reopen under new ownership as the Detroit Vinyl Bar, a cocktail bar and record store.
Inquiries on the listing go to Vincent Mazzola at 313-704-2678 or Sloane Walsh at 248-227-0182 at O'Connor Real Estate.
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