Updated: July 15, 2021 11:58 pm Warren debates creating a walkable downtown WARREN, Mich. – Creating a downtown for the city of Warren has been discussed for years, but now there are actual renderings. The city has selected a developer out of Indianapolis and a planner out of Birmingham. A plan was presented to the Warren City Council Thursday night. It includes a Marriott Tribute Hotel, 500 apartments with rent starting at $1,125 a month, 20 shops and dining. It also includes what Mayor Jim Fouts referred to as a Papa Joe’s-type market. It would be built up around Warren City Hall. Fouts told the council that he envisions an upscale development that would be a destination. The cost would be $140 million from the developers, but the city would have to bond out for $30 million to be repaid over 20 years.