Metropolitan Building to become Starwood Hotel

**canuck** · May-23-16, 11:17 AM

Originally Posted by Lowell

Agreed. Lost the Charlevoix too. Still I am amazed at what has been saved. For a while I thought it might all be lost.

That is a really sweet building and will be a nice hotel. I like the angles on the façade.

**DetroiterOnTheWestCoast** · May-23-16, 01:41 PM

Originally Posted by canuck

That is a really sweet building and will be a nice hotel. I like the angles on the façade.

Yes, its a gorgeous building. A few years ago I would not have banked on either it or the Wurlitzer surviving.

Downtown Detroit really seems to be a "glass half full/half empty" conundrum to me. So many buildings were lost which would now be candidates for rehab if they still existed. On the other hand, its wonderful that so many abandoned buildings in fact survived for 20, 30 or 40 years to live again.