Sounds like the man has a "vision"...

"Michael Roberts had already enjoyed a long career in his native St. Louis before he bought the defunct Omni Hotel on Detroit's east riverfront in 2010.
Since then, Roberts has poured about $5 million into renovating what everyone agrees ought to be a jewel, a historic Parke-Davis pharmaceutical laboratory building transformed 25 years ago into a boutique inn as part of the Stroh River Place complex.
Omni and other previous owners couldn't make money there for a variety of reasons, including a location some thought of as too remote from downtown. The 106-room hotel was closed when Roberts bought it".

http://www.freep.com/story/money/bus...walk/19640943/