Prince Concepts

Prince Concepts is a real estate development studio, laboratory and office led by Philip Kafka, based in Core City, Detroit. 

• The studio works to express personal experience, philosophy and belief through built work.

• The laboratory tinkers - seeking truth and developing precision.

• The office organizes - creating value for the company, our tenants and customers.

We acquire, develop, own and manage land and building projects.

We restrain where we work and focus on knitting together small to medium sized development projects, over time, to create larger, cohesive projects within and across focused neighborhoods.

On the other hand...

We diversify what we build and create spaces to live, socialize, work and congregate.

Consistent, dedicated, and focused work, within a specific neighborhood, brings us and our surroundings real value.

We create celebrated restaurants.

We imagine and build award winning residential and mixed-use projects.

We revive and transform previously abandoned buildings.

We run our own little fun cafe.

We plant copious amounts of trees to create and beautify public spaces and to secure an inspired future.

The consistent thread throughout our work: an emphasis on the quality of space, indoor and outdoor, public and private.

Space is our product; we are always exploring, trying to figure out how to offer more of it, at a higher quality, for an accessible price.

For us, it isn’t a matter of how much we build, but is more about how inspired where and what we create actually becomes.