Upon skimming through my Hudson's book, from the Images of America collection, I realized something. Did Hudson's ever consider buying the Kern Block building a parking structure [[yes I know, we all hate those in the city) and offering either free parking or some low-cost parking and perhaps build a skyway to link with the building. Perhaps it would have done good with the Cadillac Mall project. I know a parking deck wouldn't look that good over Campus Martius, but you gotta do whatcha gotta do for sales.

I wasn't even alive when downtown Hudson's was open, but now writing this I seem to remember they offered some type of parking, but maybe a larger deck would have done good, maybe with validation.

[[I tried to find another thread to put this in, but couldn't fyi)