Quote Originally Posted by southen View Post
Counting parking garages and a new HQ that they NEEDED anyway due to the limits of their current space is pretty weak for fulfilling their obligations. It doesn't surprise me that they are going about it that way, I just wish that the city had done a better job of stipulating what could count towards that $200 million.
One think I think is fair to say:

The Ilitches apparently 'rolled up' a lot of planned and unplanned work into this project.

They 'said' - we need parking garages, let's count them.

We need a new LC headquarters, let's count that.

We want to have a WSU building named after Mike Ilitch, let's count that.

We want to put housing on Woodward next to Comerica, let's...

Etc.

So rather than doing a piece meal project over say 5 - 10 years they rolled it all up into one very large project [[say 1B bucks - "lot of money" to quote Trump) over a couple years.

It makes a bigger splash and could be sold to the city as 'something really big.'