It's official! Gilbert locks up redevelopment of old Hudson's site

[Gistok]

The good thing about this monstrosity not being built on the Hudsons block is that it will be very expensive to build such "cutting edge" design in a historic downtown. Especially with the value of property downtown... that and sticking out like a sore thumb.

Having retail up to the curb would help the entire lower Woodward district. Having dead zones like this in between does nothing to promote a retail district [[sure are a lot of people in this rendering).... I remember renderings like this back in the 1970s that showed how all those red monkey bars and a trolley on Washington Blvd. showed a lot of foot traffic [[that never actually showed up).