WSJ: Berlin Investor wants to turn Fisher Body into Nightclub.

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There's a lot he could do, actually. Shopping, hotel, restaurants, etc. He could make part of it a concert venue, part a club. Everything doesn't have to be residential.

Love your enthusiasm but the place is at least a half million square feet! A night club even on the large side with a grille is about 25,000. The location is not exactly on the beaten path and does not have good exposure so I doubt retail would be interested. Hotels need a market, and who would stay there if they could stay downtown, Ferry Street or @ St. Regis?

It is not going to be a very easy market to tap regardless of what gets put in there.

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Love your enthusiasm but the place is at least a half million square feet! A night club even on the large side with a grille is about 25,000. The location is not exactly on the beaten path and does not have good exposure so I doubt retail would be interested. Hotels need a market, and who would stay there if they could stay downtown, Ferry Street or @ St. Regis?

It is not going to be a very easy market to tap regardless of what gets put in there.

That wasn't enthusiasm, just a few ideas for what could be done. But he's obviously envisioning this to be a destination. His experience in Berlin was opening up a nightclub in an area off the beaten path and turning it into a destination. Fisher Body 21 is not prohibitively far from downtown to be a hotel, either.

It's nice to see someone with new ideas for what to do with Detroit's glut of empty buildings other than demolitions for parking lots and arenas.