New [rehab] Royal Palm Hotel - Tapestry Collection Hotel by Hilton.

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DetroitSoldier found this in the Freep the other day, and posted it onto the Grand Circus Park thread, but no one commented. It deserves a thread of its' own.

https://www.freep.com/story/money/bu...it/5631555002/

It appears that despite the COVID-19 pandemic, some new developments are still being developed in downtown Detroit.

This is going to be developed in the Park Avenue House hotel building [[now vacated of its' residents) at the NW corner of Park Ave. and Montcalm St., as a 172 room upscale Hilton hotel.

This building was owned by Sean Harrington's family [[he owns the Town Pump Tavern). I don't know him, but he's gotten some bad press lately.

The $50 million development is due for completion in 2022 as an upscale hotel. I've never been inside this building, but it appears that it will be nicely restored/remodeled.

One thing that is a plus for this future posh hotel is that just across the street is the [[Chuck Forbes owned) Colony Club Building. This building has some spectacular banqueting space on the 3rd and 4th floor. On the two story 3rd floor is a magnificent Louis XV Grand Ballroom [[with a 3rd floor mezzanine looking down onto the ballroom). On the 4th floor right above it are 2 spectacular smaller Petit Ballrooms. It would be awesome for the hotel and Colony Club to have a joint partnership to share these magnificent spaces, as well as the other wonderful interiors.

Here are some great photos of the Colony Club... which could be much more than just a wedding venue, if shared with the hotel...
https://www.jlbwedding.com/colony-cl...wedding-venue/

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Too bad that the Ilitches bulldoze everything they own... had the Hotel Wolverine survived the 1999 Comerica Park demolition derby... it would have made a great 17 story hotel right next to Comerica Park.

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Always calls for more hotel rooms in the CBD, anyone noticed any movement on this project? This website shows the status as "abandoned" updated in 2021.

https://www.constructionjournal.com/...a2e213e39.html

Lot's of media on the evictions, then the Hilton announcement, then noting for almost 2 years.

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^ I had heard that another upscale developer was going to take over the project...

This is the Crain's Detroit page mentioning another new owner, but nothing further [Crain's allowed me to view just the first part of the article before the firewall]...

https://www.crainsdetroit.com/real-e...-area-building