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Okay okay, putting our differences aside. What’s your interest in Detroit? If you say you’re not American or from here. Please don’t interpret that as an affront because there’s no malfeasance behind it. I’m just curious. And I somewhat agree with your statement about lack of civility. We can quickly get bellicose in our discussions instead of trading reasonable points and agreeing to disagree. I’m very guilty of that. At least I’m willing to own it. Very big of me, I know :)
Hardly a “mic drop” moment. I am amused though that a non-American who says he’s not even from here or doesn’t live here wanted to attack a natural-born citizen’s arguments on what’s going on in a country he only reads about on the internet. Classic, just classic. That’d be like me saying you know what’s wrong with the European Union? No, please don’t tell me, because [[A) you’ve never lived there, [[B) weren’t born there, [[C) and unless you currently live there and have local knowledge of the happenings? your opinion is worthless.
Appreciate your understanding. Indeed it wasn’t my finest hour. A little too much hubris perhaps and politics. We’re better off without that on an architecture forum for goodness sakes. I’d hit the undo button on the initial post that sparked all of it in a heartbeat. Oy ve.
I see some activity on the site
It won't amount to much though....
https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/john-gallagher/2019/08/07/hudsons-detroit-tallest-building/1943037001/
- The office, retail, and residential mixed-use project on the Monroe Block is undergoing design revisions. Actual construction, which was to have been underway by now, is scheduled to start in early 2020.
I think they are moving the barriers back a little so you can walk on the sidewalk around the site. It was kind of annoying.
There was activity at this site today. When I drove by some of the barriers were gone. Maybe they are moving the barriers again?
It looked like they were putting up new barriers.
They're moving the barriers so they're no longer blocking the sidewalk. I'm not quite sure why they ever blocked the sidewalk to begin with, considering the goals of Gilbert to have a vibrant, functioning downtown.
Before moving barriers [[3-15-2019):
Attachment 37762
After moving barriers[[9-10-2019):
Attachment 38916
What is going on with the landscaping on Monroe St.?
I would think the city would take better care of it than that [[all of the brown patches).
^ I completely agree, it's a needlessly jarring sight. All they have to do is plant trees or something but it's just left barren and it's been like that for years, so ugly. Maybe they're planning to get rid of the medium soon?
Attachment 39016
We've got activity. Looks like they are breaking up the parking lot.
They dug five holes and have since filled all five back up with dirt and debris. I'm not sure why.
Soil testing?
I wonder if something important happened to cause some activity? Is this something they would have done if this project as completely paused or not? [[Assuming they are soil testing)
Frankly, I wish they would scrap the project [[ likely will happen anyway ), and concentrate their time and resources and build a great project on the Hudsons site, as planned..
Yup.... we don't want to be like San Francisco and have our own "leaning tower".... :[[
https://www.businessinsider.com/is-m...sinking-2017-9