Gruber's Chop House closed [[according to Detroit Renaissance comments way back then) because the ad agencies and brokerages whose expense account execs supported it moved out of the financial district. Heintz Prechter tried to resurrect it at Coleman Young's request, but the demographic just wasn't there.

Remember that beautiful, grand Brooks Brothers store in the Penobscot went, too, supplanted by a U.S. Post office [[now gone, as well). More recently Orlando's, the classic menswear store in the Buhl Building, closed.

Are the expense account guys back ? I think the offerings will be greatly down-scaled. Dover sole stuffed with crabmeat won't probably be there.