False Hope....Which proposed construction project were you most excited for?

[313rd]

In the past 5 years or so, there have been numerous projects proposed and discussed through out various media outlets. Of the following, what project were you most excited for?

Just to name a few;
@water Lofts
Watermark Condo's
Uniroyal Site Development
GM River East
Cadillac Centre
Quicken Tower
Penobscot Apartments
1001 Woodward Condo
New Hockey Arena
Book Bldg
MCS
Roosevelt Apts
2nd Bridge
International Gondola Crossing
Broderick Towers
East Jefferson [[6 story apartment, can't recall the name, near GP Border?)
Etc..........

[DetroitPlanner]

Tom Monahan's Leaning tower of Pizza! Originally proposed for Detroit, moved to Ann Arbor, never built.

[313WX]

Besides the ones that have been mentioned

2nd part of "The Griswold"
Shoppes At Gateway Plaza
Federal Government development on the westside of downtown
Downtown Como's
Downtown Shield's
Pontchartrain becoming a Crowne Plaza [[again)
That complex on the Hudson site
Bank of American Regional Headquarters relocating downtown
Fox Creek Development
US Patent Office

And as for the projects that happened but fell through [[and established places that are closing)

Borders
Visteon moving into Kennedy Sqaure
Ponchartrain becoming a Sheraton
Omni Hotel
Frank Taylor's restaurant chain
Kroger on 7 Mile & Gratiot
Farmer Jack on Jefferson & St. Jean
Au Bon Pain in Campus Martius
Zacarro's

[401don]

The rebuilding of the Detroit Tigers - fell apart trying to use many of the same old broken parts.

[MizMotown]

the racetrack at the fairgrounds

[JStone]

Hands down, the North Corktown Pump Track.

[JBMcB]

The possibly-completely-fictitious aquarium at Ford Auditorium.

[bailey]

Light rail

[Yooper]

The American Industrial Revolution is dead.
The glory days have been replaced by competition on a world scale.
It's silly to think that corruption at the local level is to blame for the current situation...it's way more than that.
America as a whole is fucked.
There is nothing to replace the manufacturing jobs lost.
Nothing.
Our trade deficits for the last few decades is proof.
It was good while it lasted.

It's sickening...and country wide.

[Planner3357]

Besides the ones that have been mentioned

2nd part of "The Griswold"
Shoppes At Gateway Plaza
Federal Government development on the westside of downtown
Downtown Como's
Downtown Shield's
Pontchartrain becoming a Crowne Plaza [[again)
That complex on the Hudson site
Bank of American Regional Headquarters relocating downtown
Fox Creek Development
US Patent Office

And as for the projects that happened but fell through [[and established places that are closing)

Borders
Visteon moving into Kennedy Sqaure
Ponchartrain becoming a Sheraton
Omni Hotel
Frank Taylor's restaurant chain
Kroger on 7 Mile & Gratiot
Farmer Jack on Jefferson & St. Jean
Au Bon Pain in Campus Martius
Zaccorro's

Shields has on and off construction going...mostly off. They could at least cover up the windows to hide the mess inside. If it ever does open, I will most certainly be happy to have a bar on the first floor of my apartment building.

I think Cadillac Centre would have been cool.

[Detroitnerd]

Light rail with a special smoking section.

[Hypestyles]

...the rail project.. still will happen.. must happen.. don't fail..

[Junkin4Life]

the fate of Packard Plant

[gnome]

Sort of miss the 3 other towers on the Fisher Building or the 2nd Book Tower ... 1929 comes around and ... never built. But maybe the biggest unbuilt plan was the wheel-and-spoke street plan.

[Detroitnerd]

Yeah, bring back the Woodward Plan of 1803!

[1KielsonDrive]

Tom Monahan's Leaning tower of Pizza! Originally proposed for Detroit, moved to Ann Arbor, never built.

It was too built.

[1KielsonDrive]

I'm invoking Skipper's Rule #1.

[Jason]

For me I think it's the residential projects in Rivertown. But they can still happen and they can be done better than they would have [[I wasn't really too crazy about the design).

[iheartthed]

The Detroit to Ann Arbor commuter rail project that would've connected both cities to the airport and each other.

[kraig]

...the rail project.. still will happen.. must happen.. don't fail..

I know there was an RFP for Services that had last week as a deadline. So it appears that everything with it is still a go. In fact, I'm hoping that our very own FlyByDon is one of the respondents.

[Motor City Sam]

1. The often discussed, never realized, expanded Motown Museum.

2. The often discussed, never realized, renovated Kronk Boxing Gym.

[BrushStart]

Looking at the list, it can be depressing, but just think about the last 5 years as a loss for most of the country. Other cities must have lists twice as long of proposed developments that never got off the ground. Also, consider all of the progress Detroit has made in the last 5 years. It's pretty impressive considering we're fighting back against a half-century-long period of unabated decline and disinvestment.

I was walking down the Riverwalk over the weekend and just admiring all of the prime development potential. Developers would have to be crazy to not do anything with that open land. Someday, many of the areas that presently look run down and undeveloped will be the most valuable property this state has ever seen. Sometimes it can be tiresome at how long the city's recovery is taking, but it has already begun. I know deep down that Detroit's best days lie ahead. 50 years of continuous decline seems like a long time, but in the context of history, it is nothing more than a moment.

[Junkin4Life]

The Motor City Building

[Junkin4Life]

the development on Gratiot ant St.Antoine

[1953]

I'm still excited for the other two towers of the Fisher Building, though its been more than 5 years since they were proposed.