Why The Hudson, Lafayette, and Statler Blocks Will NEVER Be Developed

[DetroitDad]

Okay, never say never, but I can't see it, if the policies being held by the city and DEGC are true.

What is among the worst moves in these building's demolitions [[one of which I once said needed to be done) is that the Hudson's, Lafayette, and Statler sites [[among others) stand little chance of being developed, because the city is, as I understand it, not allowing those lots to be broken up, nor has it decided what an average, normal sized building lot is, or will be, on many lots. If this is true, the City of Detroit is STILL banking on big developments for these sites. Big "savior" developers were always far and few between, but now are almost non existent, as access to the kind of capital that funded those super projects is gone, and it doesn't appear that it will be coming back for some time.

Smaller developments like the Woodward Garden Block and Mid-Med Lofts are more realistic, but even setting some smaller lots aside for developments on the scale of what was done with the Urban Bean Co. could be considered. The Statler Block, for example, could be divided to match the smaller building that survived there, while Hudson's could be made to accommodate buildings to match in scale to the buildings just to the North [[like the Singer Sewing Machine Buildings next to the wig boutique, or the Oslo Building).