DETROIT (WWJ) - One week from today, Buddy's iconic Detroit style pizza will be sold for the first time in Downtown Detroit.
It just makes sense, right?
"This is our sixteenth location — all of which are in Michigan; and most of which, I think you know, are in the greater Detroit area," said Buddy's new CEO Burton Heiss, who Wednesday gave reporters a tour of the brand new restaurant on the ground floor of the Madison building, near Grand Circus Park, along Broadway at Witherell, a block east of Woodward Ave.
"It's only our second location in actual Detroit proper, which I think is super exciting and very meaningful," Heiss said, announcing a Grand Opening at the restaurant next Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019.
"I'm very excited to be back downtown; to be a part of the excitement, the growth, the development that is happening here. Just really proud, proud to welcome you."
"It was in 1946 at the Buddy's, then known a blind pig, that the first Detroit style pizza was made," Heiss said. "We're very proud of our Detroit roots and the fact that we're still here 70-some years later making the same pizza that made us famous."
That original restaurant remains open, at Conant St. and E. McNichols in Detroit.
The Madison, owned by Dan Gilbert's Bedrock, is a mixed-use building for retail, office and event space. The new location is at the site of the former Angelina Italian Bistro. The coffee shop Ashe Supply Co. is also in the first floor of the building.