Broderick Tower Residents can move in!!!

**Detroitdave** · November-06-12, 06:52 AM

Originally Posted by gthomas

Grand Circus Park can become a nice residential area, with Broderick Tower open and Aloft Hotel & Residence opening in 2014. I was thinking of another cool project for the Fine Arts building facade, which is being saved for future development. Chicago's http://www.thelegacyatmillenniumpark.com/ building shows a great way to develop a preserved facade and keep it's unique character of the Loop. Here's our Fine Arts Building, http://www.modeldmedia.com/devnews/finearts20409.aspx. We should add more residential along that block by doing something similar to Chicago's development.

Maybe not as tall as Chicago's, I can see a 35-story residential tower for the Fine Arts Building redevelopment site. But I do feel, whatever happens to the Statler site I hope it become a new multi-use tower, rather than just residential. Something similar to this:http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=97328. To closed off the area, build a Hyatt Hotel on the surface parking overlooking Comerica Park, next door to the Barden Building. Like this Hyatt Hotel:http://www.e-architect.co.uk/images/...gp220609_2.jpg, make it the official Detroit Tigers Hotel.

Grand Circus Park will be completed and will be THE most attractive place to live Downtown, both fountains in GCP shall be upgraded and receive much TLC attention as Campus Martius Park does. Creating foot traffic, almost up to 5,000 people around GCP daily due to several key developments. Not to mention, one of the lightrail stops will be in GCP, this area can become a detroit version of Chicago's Water Tower park.

Mid-rise residential building, similar to "The Studio One" Apartments and "The Ellington" in Midtown is a great example of successful urban fabric. More of this should be along all main-artery, not just Woodward. I believe in 5-10 years we will see Midtown filled with these type of developments, eventually spreading outward throughout the city. Imagine all Streets, Avenues, Boulevard, and Roads eventually start developing this in New Center, Northend, Virginia Park, Lafayette Park, Corktown, The Villages, Woodbridge and Eastern Market. Slowing creeping up along Grandriver, Gratiot, Jefferson st, Michigan Av towards 8 mile, eventually. Now that will be a nice resurgence, a positive economic plan. Could change zoning policies, introducing new ways to develop around here.

Those are all great ideas , but I think at the moment that's a bit more that Detroit can handle right now. it's a bit bigger bite than Detroit can handle at the moment.

I am a big fan of Detroit thinking bigger and out of the box , but at this time that's a big too big, that would be bigger than the rencen .
I think key, cool , groundbreaking and unique construction is the way to go , i.e the green garage http://greengaragedetroit.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
And the Madison, once these really take off the other will happen.
sort of the horse before the cart :-)
just a thought :-)

**mikeg19** · November-07-12, 05:15 PM

As much as I'd love to see 5 or 6 new skyscrapers erected downtown, there is still too much available space that could be rehabbed. Obviously the David Whitney building is very close to that reality, but you've still got the hulking Book tower and building, the Stott, and a ton of mid-rise buildings that could be developed. I'm sure if a lot of these buildings were renovated into apartments or condos, you'd easily be able to add in 1,000 units to the downtown market.

You do make a good point though. GCP is quickly becoming the hot spot downtown, and it'd be really nice to see the Statler site filled in along with the Fine Arts facade.