Quote Originally Posted by 48307 View Post
On the bright side Little Caesars headquarters is still... a surface parking lot...
The new GRC had to have some redesigning as it was deemed too small and I also heard that there were permitting issues. On a positive note, the old apartment building behind the new HQ is not going anywhere. They could have saved themselves the moaning and groaning of people like you had they said it will take a while much like Ford did with the release of the announcement of the new HQ canpus, but, oh well.. There should be shovels in the ground soon.

Also, Little Caesar's has rented a few floors of the Palms building as overflow.

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned it on here or not, but they are starting site prep for the new parking structure located between St. John's and the Tigers garage. Hopefully that will go up quickly and they can start on the apartment buildings replacing lots 1 and 2 in front of CoPa.

And as for peoples comments on the Ilitch's using DDA money to tear down buildings why the hell does everyone hate the Ilitches for that?? Blame the damn DDA for making the money available to them. Would you spend your own money [[for any purpose) if the government has programs that makes money available to you? It is easy to say you wouldn't but when your actually in that position - you probably would. They didn't become multi-billionaires by just throwing money away regardless if they could afford to or not.

Also, most people don't realize how much good the Ilitch family does and how much money they give away. You just don't hear about it. Sure you hear about the large deals, but the small ones that are done with our all the hoopla add up too. Sure, they make money from sponsoring things such as the hockey, but Mike and Marian Ilitch do care about helping people also.