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.'
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