Downtown Development Rumor [corner of Broadway and Grand River]

[rb336]

not sure what's cool about that. just another snob haven

[Detroit Stylin]

not sure what's cool about that. just another snob haven

I concur...that is pretty damn ugly....

[DetroitPlanner]

I concur...that is pretty damn ugly....

I am looking at more than just the type of stores or the skin of it. Remember I am the guy who typically pushes for such posh stores as the Family Dollar or Dollar General in the CBD!

If you look at it critically it is borrowing a lot of its design elements from the great arcades and gallerias. It mixes uses very well, with retail, and existing offices and hotels. It provides pedestrian streets and semi-private spaces where the public can enjoy the City without having to worry about being deluged by bums.

[rb336]

It provides pedestrian streets and semi-private spaces where the public can enjoy the City without having to worry about being deluged by bums.

AKA a faux-urban environment, AKA snob haven

[Shollin]

AKA a faux-urban environment, AKA snob haven

AKA Royal Oak?

[Hermod]

not sure what's cool about that. just another snob haven

Detroit doesn't need a downtown Macy's?

Detroit doesn't need a downtown Nordstrom's?

Detroit doesn't need more people with excess disposable income moving downtown?

Detroit can survive by music making hipsters buying art by art making hipsters who then spend the money in clubs where the music making hipsters play, thus creating a closed circuit of hipsters with no need for "snobs"?

[Shollin]

Detroit doesn't need a downtown Macy's?

Detroit doesn't need a downtown Nordstrom's?

Detroit doesn't need more people with excess disposable income moving downtown?

Detroit can survive by music making hipsters buying art by art making hipsters who then spend the money in clubs where the music making hipsters play, thus creating a closed circuit of hipsters with no need for "snobs"?

As they say, beggars can be choosers apparently. In a city that hasn't had a new high rise built in 19 years, we can be picky about our development.

[Doma]

Don't forget Greektown Hotel, which is the 25th tallest building in Michigan at 348'

25.

Greektown Casino Hotel

Detroit

2009

30

348 / 106

[25]

As they say, beggars can be choosers apparently. In a city that hasn't had a new high rise built in 19 years, we can be picky about our development.

[Doma]

This would be the parking lot in question i take it? This seems like a big victory for downtown!

[gthomas]

This would be the parking lot in question i take it? This seems like a big victory for downtown!

Yes, I believe it's a huge victory to develop any surface parking lot in Downtown into a mixed used building. With that being said, this particular project is great due to filling in the gap, creating density, and finally completing a streetwall along that block. Hope it's a nice project..

[AGinthe313]

This is the one, also the lot on Library st. behind the Broadway Lofts [[next to Vicente's).