Man attempts to climb side of Renaissance Center

[Kathleen]

I'm amazed at how easily these climbers are able to scale tall buildings!! And without any safety harnesses. Last week some guy climbed the 60-story Salesforce Tower in San Francisco.

And both the guy here in Detroit and the one in SF made the climb in the name of social awareness of the abortion issue.

[Danny]

Folks those days want to be Spiderman than Superman.

[Rocket]

And both the guy.................. made the climb in the name of social awareness of the abortion issue.

... it looks like he climbed one of the four 535 ft. office towers,.............

Wiki says the outer towers are 522 feet. And if they start at the 4th floor [bottom floors being 15 some feet tall each?] Does that mean he only climbed up 460 feet or so?

WEAK. That leaves me totally unaware of the abortion issue.

[Gistok]

Wiki says the outer towers are 522 feet. And if they start at the 4th floor [bottom floors being 15 some feet tall each?] Does that mean he only climbed up 460 feet or so?

WEAK. That leaves me totally unaware of the abortion issue.

Rocket... did you know that Atwater St. is at a lower level than Jefferson Avenue? Did you know that this makes it problematic for height determination of the towers of the Renaissance Center. When the Renaissance Center first opened up that the hotel tower boasted a height of 748 ft. on the Atwater side, yet the 727 ft. on the Jefferson side was never mentioned at that time. Similar scenario for the office towers. In fact when the complex opened up the office towers were listed at only 490 ft.

Even the Penobscot Building has 2 heights that were historically mentioned... 557 ft. and 625 ft. Ditto for the Guardian Building, which has everything from 490 ft. to 535 ft., depending on where you are getting the information from.

[Burnsie]

Rocket... did you know that Atwater St. is at a lower level than Jefferson Avenue? Did you know that this makes it problematic for height determination of the towers of the Renaissance Center. When the Renaissance Center first opened up that the hotel tower boasted a height of 748 ft. on the Atwater side, yet the 727 ft. on the Jefferson side was never mentioned at that time. Similar scenario for the office towers. In fact when the complex opened up the office towers were listed at only 490 ft.

Even the Penobscot Building has 2 heights that were historically mentioned... 557 ft. and 625 ft. Ditto for the Guardian Building, which has everything from 490 ft. to 535 ft., depending on where you are getting the information from.

I've also seen multiple figures for the height of the old JL Hudson tower, everything from 397 to 418 feet. The latter figure was given in the 9/18/27 Free Press article announcing the project.