Bedrock has done this before. With much fanfare, they got Sergio Marchione to move a handful of people downtown into a couple of floors of Bedrock's Dime Building. They even rebranded the entire building as "Chrysler House".


The offices were rarely used when Marchionne was running things and were effectively abandoned before Covid. But the name remains on the building and the floors remain unoccupied and unchanged since. Warren is GM's HQ. let's not kid ourselves that one or two floors of the Block building is going to be anything more than a C suite pied a terre. It'll be used as much as the Chrysler offices were because it makes little sense to be Downtown when the entire org is in Warren [[or in Chrysler's case Auburn Hills and Italy).


This move is clearly not a net positive for Detroit. But it is for GM and that shouldn't be minimized as they are an important economic driver for SE Michigan and the state. Barely maintaining that white elephant does nothing to sell more cars. Unloading the operations and redevelopment costs and likely the ownership, to Bedrock is a long overdue cost cutting move and a late but welcome admission that the whole fucking move from the GM building in New Center was a gigantic waste.


It's sad that Detroit just got one blighted, ruin porn landmark off the books with Ford's incredible reno of the train station and surrounding area, only to have a much larger, and more prominent derelict building to contend with in the near future.