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Each RenCen 39-story tower floor is about 18,100 sf, if they're indeed using 2 floors/ 100,000 sf of the Hudson's block that's equivalent to about 5 1/2 RenCen floors.

May 1996, GM Vice Chairman Harry Pearce:
"The opportunity to move into this outstanding facility at a reasonable price was one we just couldn't pass up...When I stood on the street just a week ago...

The GM RenCen purchase was initially good for downtown, as of 2003 GM had about 6,000 workers in there, about 600 more than what it had in the GM Building. One of the 39 story towers remained leased...

Plus Hudson Jefferson Ave., Continental Jefferson Ave., Chrysler old Jefferson plant, Fisher Body Fleetwood, Motor Products Mack Ave., Cadillac/Hudson Conner Ave., Cadillac Clark St., Lincoln/DTE...

Very cool video! Though title could be changed to "United Artists Building renovation", since the theatre is now demolished.

Not really, since Ford bought the station in June 2018, and it will open in June 2024, 6 years.

The GM Building headcount going from 5,000 to 3,000 in that timeframe was due to salaried cutbacks stemming from GM's shrinking market share & cost cutting, not the city's decline.

A 6/10/2001 Free Press article indicates that the state would begin moving 2,800 workers into Cadillac Place in August of that year. How many are left, and do any of them show up more than twice a...

You can also simply type WDET into Google and click on the "news" option.

How about we see how this pilot run goes before assuming that? As the news reports state, this will be a no-intermediate stop trip with Indian Trails buses, the same kind that the popular Michigan...

You seriously think that project would be simpler than just starting up a bus service? The Qline cost $187 million for 3.3 measly miles. A light rail in the median of I-94 from Merriman Rd. to...

One needs the per capita murder rate to get a useful picture. Detroit had over a million more people in 1966. Its murder rate is about 41 now, probably still in the top 5 nationally. The 2022 rate...

No old buildings are being torn down for this. I'd rather see a simple glass tower than some half assed attempt to make a new building look "classic" but not backed up with the quality of materials...

I doubt Amtrak would require or request a train shed for its one round trip to Canada. The current Detroit station, as well as the new [[2014) Dearborn station don't have train sheds.

I expect...

Outside of the Northeast Corridor, Amtrak just passively goes along with whatever its state "partners" pay for. MDOT wants to build another New Center station to replace the shack across the tracks...

"Conspiracy"? All evidence points to the reason being far more bland. The 1987 sale of transit bus manufacturing to MCI was just another cutback to focus more on GM's core business. GM's transit bus...

Back when GM had its own security guards instead of half baked contracted or joint venture ones, things were more professional and I don't think this would have happened if they had kept their own...

None of this concept is confirmed, and as the Amtrak spokesman said, calling it a plan is an overstatement. But yes, the leaked planning document said it would be two trains but a joint ticket:
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An Amtrak train would arrive at Windsor [[a new wye track would allow a face first arrival) but you'd have to exit there, schlep through a new Customs facility and get on a VIA train. No single seat...

It's really sad, isn't it? The wheel seemingly has to be reinvented with each of these projects, and the bureaucrats say pathetic stuff like "it could be running as soon as 4 years from now!"

The...

Until the 1960s the Detroit River rail tunnel was an important link in a through Chicago-Detroit-New York City & Boston passenger service. It was the whole reason the Michigan Central Station was...

Ships have sat for decades after decommissioning, then gotten spruced up and recommissioned. That happened to the Iowa-class battleships, which were reactivated under Reagan. Then decommissioned...

I'd guess that the blocks with the numbers on them identify the block number of a given plat, and were placed on the curb or sidewalk. Something that decorative would have been placed above ground...

Yes, and the factories clustered like barnacles along the railroad mainlines & belt lines. The freight-only Michigan Central branch that served Packard originally went down to Jefferson, turned west...

Amtrak is confined to a small room [[former baggage handling area IIRC) in the basement of Toledo's station. The rest of the building is now occupied by the typical government/nonprofit offices.
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