The building at 1486 Gratiot Ave. was originally constructed around 1911.

In 1930, the building was home to Hugo Hellerich, a jeweler. Two years later, Gratiot Avenue, which forced the building to undergo significant changes. It was either partially demolished or entirely rebuilt, and a new Art Deco-style façade featuring black structural glass was added. This renovation aligned with a broader city initiative to modernize the corridor, resulting in many buildings receiving similar stylistic updates.

That same year saw this building become the headquarters of the Koenig Coal & Supply Co.

Koenig was founded in 1870 by Peter Koenig, starting out supplying wood for heating and cooking stoves. In 1921, it expanded its wares by buying a large gravel pit near Oxford, Mich., in order to fill the summertime lulls in the company's bottom line, when folks weren't buying coal to heat their homes. It also got into sand and mix concrete.

Koenig supplied coal for the Detroit Public Schools, as well as a number of churches, apartment buildings and plants. By 1965, as it neared its centennial, the company was the largest independent firm combining fuel oil, coal, building supplies and concrete in the area.

It's unclear when Koenig went out of business or moved out of the building, but by 1971, the building was serving as an office for the Detroit Housing Commission and then the Community Development Commission. In 1973, the building became a Neighborhood Youth Corps hiring center to help Detroit youth get summer jobs.

In 2000, it was a bar called 7th City, and a decade later, a concert venue known as Translove Energies, a throwback name to the MC5 and Grande Ballroom.