Quote Originally Posted by Gistok View Post
This will be interesting to see how they convert the Fox Building into a Hotel. ...snip...

The main entrance to the office block is about 40 ft. south of the theatre entrance, and is just a small lobby with elevator banks. There is no real lobby space in the office block for a hotel to occupy. Also on the 8th floor is an atrium that is about 3 stories... it's above the theatre lobby... and appears to be the only grand space available to a hotel, since theatre and hotel space will likely remain separate.

Here is a ground floor plan for the Fox Building. The theatre takes up an enormous part of the bulk of the complex. It's not until you get above the 6th floor [above the theatre lobby] that the office space area starts increasing. So a hotel located in this building would not be all that large.
I too see challenges, but two points:

1) Lots of Ilitch announcements are never followed through, so who knows where this goes. Their announcements mostly seem to be trial balloons. See if investors believe. [[Clearly some of them do happen!)

2) The office building is around 100,000 sf. So there's more room than you hint, But it wouldn't be a first-class hotel with much conference room space. But it could work. Been in plenty of urban hotels with small footprints. Check-in doesn't
have to be in the lobby.

3) Bonus Point... might end up with some office, some meeting, some rooms, some who knows what.

4) Doesn't the Fox do some loud events?