Monroe Block Development

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Well the Cadillac Tower, which Gilbert already owns, is 438 ft. tall and 40 floors. The thing I noticed the only time I was ever in there was that the floor heights were short [[less than 10 ft.). This would make it a perfect residential tower. So even though nothing has been announced, I can picture the Cadillac Square entire frontage being finished with a Market Hall, National Theatre complex, and Cadillac Tower residences, before the other parts of the plan.

I think that a residential and office tower go up on the Monroe St. side isn't such a bad idea. With Gilbert having sold Greektown Casino... his plans for tying Campus Martius to Greektown are toast. So it looks like he wants to make the Campus Martius and Cadillac Square frontage more people space than Monroe, although having residential there should help.

I'm starting to feel less disappointed about the office tower not being directly attached to Campus Martius. All the plans are still fluid, and having a low rise Market Hall and National Theatre isn't so bad... after all had the Monroe block of buildings survived, they would have just been about 4 stories anyway.

We need to see architectural renderings... and that's not happening yet.