Hudson's Site Building Thread

**stasu1213** · April-18-24, 11:13 AM

Originally Posted by Gistok

^ stasu1213... don't forget the Huntington Bank Tower...

You are right . I think that the Hudson's Block would had been completed back in 2020 if the tower wasn't including with it. Detroit as a whole doesn't have a robust economy and sometimes the forcast have to study before major developments occur. Tony Lieberman, developer of Soho and South Beach had said during his Detroit visit that Detroit should start redeveloping one building at a time; one block at a time. He also had said that Detroit should not try to be a metropolis such as New York or Chicago but keep being a town.

**Satiricalivory** · April-18-24, 11:18 AM

Originally Posted by stasu1213

You are right . I think that the Hudson's Block would had been completed back in 2020 if the tower wasn't including with it. Detroit as a whole doesn't have a robust economy and sometimes the forcast have to study before major developments occur. Tony Lieberman, developer of Soho and South Beach had said during his Detroit visit that Detroit should start redeveloping one building at a time; one block at a time. He also had said that Detroit should not try to be a metropolis such as New York or Chicago but keep being a town.

What kind of idiotic take. A region of 6 million people isn't a metropolis? Somehow a town? We should have a small town mindset yeah I'm sure that'll work out great for us. How brain-dead. Gilbert's whole mentality has been the opposite of that.

**stasu1213** · April-18-24, 05:33 PM

Originally Posted by Satiricalivory

What kind of idiotic take. A region of 6 million people isn't a metropolis? Somehow a town? We should have a small town mindset yeah I'm sure that'll work out great for us. How brain-dead. Gilbert's whole mentality has been the opposite of that.

Detroit had and still have under 800,000 during the time he had visited this city. He wasn't referring to a small town such as Mayberry. He was saying that Detroit shouldn't be forced into making it what is not. In other words stop trying to make Detroit like a New York City. New York had to build upward due to lack of land and space. Detroit doesn't have that problem. I am not knocking what Gilbert had done for Detroit. He had given the downtown area the shot in the arm that it needed. However, another focus should be the neighborhoods which in the past a working town such as Detroit boast of having