Finally!! It looks like the renovations are set to begin within a couple of weeks!

"With news Wednesday that Whitney Partners LLC had received $8 million from the Michigan Strategic Fund, a firm behind the long-in-the-making effort to renovate the now-vacant David Whitney Building in downtown Detroitsays it has the financing to begin construction in February.

James Van Dyke, vice president of development for The Roxbury Group in Detroit, said the $82.5 million project has received support from the state, Bank of America, the Detroit Downtown Development Authority and others in its effort to redevelop the Woodward Avenue building at Grand Circus Park.

The mixed-use development will contain ground-floor retail as well as a 135-room Aloft hotel and 108 apartments.

Van Dyke said construction on the 19-story building is expected to be completed by the middle of 2014."

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article...uilding-set-to