The programatic goals for 1201 N. Detroit Street were to provide 48 Affordable housing units while intergrating the proposed project onto a corner lot within an exsisting neighborhood context of 2 and 3 story buildings. Because the site was a city owned community Garden untill 2017, it was determined that the corner parcel be designed to serve as as a publicly accessiable open space, providing a community benefit, and reducing the perceived massing fronting both Detroit Street and Lexington Avenue.