Prince Concepts is a real estate development and property management company located in Core City, Detroit.

Since 2012, Prince Concepts has acquired and owns seventeen acres of land, renovated 62,000 square feet of formerly blighted industrial property, imagined and built 20,000 SF of new housing, created 15,000 SF of thoughtful public space, planted over 300 trees, and won nine national and international awards for its completed projects.

The vast majority of this development has taken place, and will continue to be, in Core City. We believe that consistent, dedicated, and focused work within a specific area is how the unique character and value within the Detroit neighborhoods comes to life.

Creating inspired space is the objective of our work, making such space accessible is our aspiration and the real work of our work. We aim to offer our tenants, our neighborhood, and Detroit public and private spaces of note. Our belief is that living in and around architecture - both natural and man made - offers humans immense benefits.

You can learn more about our completed projects in the WORK section of this website.

Prince Concepts is directed by Philip Kafka.

Philip Kafka is President of Prince Concepts. Prior to moving to Detroit, Kafka spent six years building, Prince Media Co, a billboard business in New York City. After developing and marketing sign locations across Manhattan, Brooklyn, San Francisco and Los Angeles Kafka sold Prince Media Co to LAMAR, the largest billboard company in the country.

Kafka began purchasing real estate in Detroit in late 2012, and finally sold his company in New York in August of 2015. Since then, Kafka has been developing Core City.

Kafka’s first ground-up development project, True North, was named 2017’s Multi-Family development of the year by Architects Newspaper, was a winner of a Progressive Architecture award, and was one of six finalists for the prestigious Mies Crown Hall America’s prize; it was one of just two finalists from the USA, the other being the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History Washington D.C.

Kafka also serves on the board of MoCAD in Detroit, and has frequently been a guest critic and lecturer in the architecture departments at the: Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Fay Jones School at the University of Arkansas, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, University of Michigan, and Wayne State University.