[DetroitMan]

This would be huge for Detroit. The plan calls for making the area around Huntington Place more pedestrian friendly and increasing access to the riverfront. What has me excited the most is the proposed extension of 2nd Street.
Huntington Place could get a pedestrian-friendly makeover — including riverfront access

A large expansion of the Huntington Place convention center in downtown Detroit — including a new venue for parties and an adjustment of a nearby road — is planned as a result of bills passed in the Legislature's abbreviated lame-duck session.
A key executive says part of the overall vision includes extending Second Avenue south to the Detroit River, adding more parking and remodeling of the facility's east side. There's also the potential for a 30,000- to 60,000-square-foot new ballroom.

The overall effort could make the area — a complex cobweb of infrastructure that is uninviting to pedestrians — more conducive to a big hotel development that would attract more convention business to the city.

Claude Molinari, president and CEO of Visit Detroit, said conversations are ongoing with Detroit-based The Sterling Group, which is developing the former Joe Louis Arena site, on incorporating new hotel connected to Huntington Place into the mix.

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