Pistons to move HQ to New Center and Build $50-75 M Practice Facility

[MikeyinBrooklyn]

Jason, I loathe the term "world class" as applied to just about anything. I think we in Detroit should have nice things, but how buildings or transit systems or parks or universities or sculptures stack up against their counterparts in Shanghai, Sochi, Sorrento or Sacramento is irrelevant. Using the term "world class" smacks of an inferiority complex. "Transformational" is not yet on that level.

[emu steve]

Jason, I loathe the term "world class" as applied to just about anything. I think we in Detroit should have nice things, but how buildings or transit systems or parks or universities or sculptures stack up against their counterparts in Shanghai, Sochi, Sorrento or Sacramento is irrelevant. Using the term "world class" smacks of an inferiority complex. "Transformational" is not yet on that level.

Maybe there are some transformational elements to the project.

I think we should not use 'transformational' as a synonym for huge, gaudy, 'world class', etc.

Trump Hotel in D.C. is very nice, gaudy, etc. but not transformational. It took an arch beautiful building and put it to good use. Other than the Trump gold lettering on the outside a passerby hardly notices anything 'new' or different. It did not change the neighborhood and heaven forbid one more high end hotel is 'transformational' in D.C.

LCA is transformational because it changes the character of a large area which could extend, in time, to the Motor City Casino and westward toward MLKjr blvd. Creating a new neighborhood, I would think, is transformational.

Transformational could be applied here to mean the functions [[functionality) are much different than simply a NBA practice facility. I'm still a bit skeptical.

Extending Qline to 8 Mile and doing branches down Jefferson, Gratiot, etc. would be transformational as it pertains to transportation and maybe where people choose to live.

Curious if the new Hudsons site building is huge, gaudy, world class, or transformational?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_design