RUMOR: Dan Gibert to buy One Woodward Avenue

**Flintoid** · September-09-12, 12:49 PM

Originally Posted by Gistok

No... next door... it's the former ANR Building which was the former Gas Building... which has an [[now unused) skywalk connecting it to the Guardian Building on the 19th [[or so) floor.

Does the purchase of this building also include the unused skywalk? I know for a while a guy has wanted to turn that skywalk into a bar [[which I think would be awesome!) and Dan Gilbert seems like just the kind of building owner who would support that 100%.

**Gannon** · September-09-12, 12:55 PM

Originally Posted by Flintoid

Does the purchase of this building also include the unused skywalk? I know for a while a guy has wanted to turn that skywalk into a bar [[which I think would be awesome!) and Dan Gilbert seems like just the kind of building owner who would support that 100%.

Oh goody. I've always wanted to see Detroit's version of the Atlanta Hyatt disaster. Wonder what the resonant frequency of that skywalk is?!

**Wheels** · September-09-12, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by Gannon

Oh goody. I've always wanted to see Detroit's version of the Atlanta Hyatt disaster. Wonder what the resonant frequency of that skywalk is?!

It was the Kansas City Hyatt that the skywalk collapsed. That was an interior skywalk, not between two buildings.

**Scottathew** · September-09-12, 03:54 PM

Originally Posted by Gannon

Oh goody. I've always wanted to see Detroit's version of the Atlanta Hyatt disaster. Wonder what the resonant frequency of that skywalk is?!

I had never heard of it before, fascinating. Although it was Kansas City, not Atlanta.

**grumpyoldlady** · September-09-12, 10:45 PM

Don't know how those who'd had too much to drink would like walking on the Skywalk. Sometimes you can feel it flex/bounce when people are walking across it. It goes from the 14th floor of One Woodward to 19 in the Guardian Building. When I worked there, 14 was the location of the big cafeteria, and also the location to switch from the low-rise elevators to the high-rise.

**Bob S** · September-13-12, 12:46 PM

Originally Posted by grumpyoldlady

Don't know how those who'd had too much to drink would like walking on the Skywalk. Sometimes you can feel it flex/bounce when people are walking across it. It goes from the 14th floor of One Woodward to 19 in the Guardian Building. When I worked there, 14 was the location of the big cafeteria, and also the location to switch from the low-rise elevators to the high-rise.

Actually it goes from the 14th floor of One Woodward to the 16th floor of the Guardian Building.

Were you Michcon or ANR? I have worked here since 1980. [[ Now DTE). I was in the Guardian Building from 1983 to 1998. Beautiful place to work.

**grumpyoldlady** · September-13-12, 05:55 PM

Where did I get 19th floor???? Of course it was 16. I started with Michigan Wisconsin Pipe Line in 1971, which became part of ANR. I worked at One Woodward, the Guardian Building and in the Ren Cen, but the biggest portion of my 20 years was at One Woodward. I liked One Woodward the best because it was sleek and modern inside, but loved the oldness of the GB, too. Wish I'd seen the GB as thoroughly as I'd seen One Woodward. Lots of neat places I never got to see.