DETROIT | Hudson's Detroit | 685 FT & 240 FT | 49 & 14 FLOORS
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Don't usually get many proposals from Detroit, so this would be great.... http://www.freep.com/article/2013112...S06/311250097/ Gilbert hopes to recapture Hudson's magic with new iconic Woodward structure http://cmsimg.freep.com/apps/pbcsi.d...W=600&Border=0 http://cmsimg.freep.com/apps/pbcsi.d...ward-structure TO MARK its 75th anniversary the J. L. Hudson Co. rigged up a horse-drawn delivery wagon used long ago. Soon streetcars will also disappear. By John Gallagher November 25, 2013 Quote:
http://cmsimg.freep.com/apps/pbcsi.d...W=600&Border=0 The former Hudson's store property between State Street and Grand River in downtown Detroit is owned by Dan Gilbert's Rock Ventures. Jessica J. Trevino/Detroit Free Press |
Some concepts from an earlier competition...
http://hudsons.opportunitydetroit.com/ Redesigning Detroit: A New Vision for an Iconic Site http://hudsons.opportunitydetroit.co...portioned1.jpg Quote:
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Just a reminder that when the Hudson store was demolished, it was the largest building ever to be imploded.
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I'm seriously wondering aloud right now how hard Detroit needs to work from essentially turning into the largest ghost town on the planet before erecting anything that looks like Libeskind's WTC1 in the middle of a Depression-era skyline...an apropos analogy for how depressed that town has bee since the domestic auto collapse.
Hell...even Ren Ctr. is *still* out of place there, apropos of nothing. |
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We'll see what they come up with, as a first step. But I'm for it whatever it is because that city is so beaten down already, almost anything would be welcome news. http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article...sign-mixed-use Rock Ventures picks New York architects to design mixed-use development on Hudson's site http://www.crainsdetroit.com/apps/pb...v=201311071514 By Sherri Welch November 25, 2013 Quote:
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A few more images of the site...
http://www.archdaily.com/452116/shop...ntown-detroit/ http://ad009cdnb.archdaily.net/wp-co...dsons_1950.jpg http://ad009cdnb.archdaily.net/wp-co...n-1000x669.jpg http://ad009cdnb.archdaily.net/wp-co...l-1000x666.jpg Aerial view of Detroit with former Hudson’s site visible at left center. |
that would be a fantastic hole in the downtown fabric to fill with iconic architecture! very interesting.......
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^ I was thinking the same, curious about what they're going to build there. Most what they spared of the surrounding fabric is still lovely. They must do something ambitious enough right there. I'm just noting more and more redevelopment is planned over there anyway, just as anybody should've been expecting. Overly done denigration or pessimism has been as idiotic as boring for too long.
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An iconic high rise in the middle of downtown won't get rid of the problems the city faces, but at least it'll change how people think of the city. Better than the RenCen in the 70s, this new icon will likely build on what's already occurring within the area, unbeknownst to quite many, actually. |
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Hope they put something good there! This site has been there forever (at least 14 years), driven by it like 50 times. I could never understand why they just left the columns sticking out of the ground like that.
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I doubt those are the columns from the original Hudsons building, since they would have been quite damaged in the implosion. I'm guessing that they built the parking garage there with the columns sticking out so it would be easy to build something on top of it when the time comes.
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I don't think Onn thought they were left from the old building. Rather, until he found out their purpose, he always wondered what the point of them was. And, yeah, these aren't the original columns. They were specifically built to help facilitate development atop the underground garage, which, while it uses some of the original retaining walls of the department stores basements, it a mostly new construction, itself.
BTW, what are SHoP's "First Thursdays"? Is this important to this project? |
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Gilbert has not forgotten about the Hudson's site despite still making a lot of moves in other parts of Downtown.
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I remember when the implosion happened and I'm as disgusted 17 years later. I remember going to the Hudson's warehouse sale with my grandmother back in the early 90's, I just can't remember if it was in the old store or somewhere else downtown. I have noticed more activity downtown recently as the stadiums and Greektown Casino have helped to draw people. I hope whatever is built on the site is sweeping and soaring. Nothing has punctuated the skyline since Comerica Tower.
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^agreed. What a waste.
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Some fascinating visions posted in this thread. I sure hope that Detroit can revitalize while saving as many of the old buildings from the glory days as possible.
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