[DetroitSky]

The other day I drove by the old Embassy Suites in Southfield, which closed last April. There were large Ramada Plaza banners hanging off it and its listed on Ramada's website. Sounds like we'll be seeing this hotel come back to life soon.


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This was already posted in the Detroit development thread, but we'll include it here too:

Ford releases plans for major overhaul of Dearborn campus

Many of the buildings on the 700-acre campus will be replaced, including the automaker’s Product Development Center, which is expected to be torn down in 2023.

In its place will be 2.2 million square feet of new space that Ford is describing as a “living laboratory” in which it can test future mobility technologies. It will make the campus itself part of the testing grounds and encourage use by its 20,000 employees of multimodal transit—bikes, walking, electric vehicles. Distances between buildings and parking space will also be greatly reduced from 40 percent to 8 percent of the total campus area.

Amazon to bring more than 1,500 jobs to Pontiac Silverdome site

Amazon was revealed Wednesday night to be the tenant of a $250 million new development on the site of the demolished Pontiac Silverdome.

Dubbed "Project Cougar" in Pontiac Planning Division documents related to the former home of the Detroit Lions, Atlanta-based Seefried Industrial Properties is proposing a 3.7 million-square-foot, two-building distribution campus for the Seattle-based e-commerce giant housing at least 1,500 full- and part-time workers.

The Planning Commission approved a permit for the 127-acre site Wednesday night to be used as a warehouse and distribution center. The project is expected to be complete by the third quarter of 2021.

In all, Seefried Industrial Properties envisions a roughly 3.5 million-square-foot, five-story fulfillment center, along with a one-story, 200,000-square-foot delivery station, the 30-page document says.

It also says that there would be 1,800 parking spaces for the larger building and 350 spaces for the smaller building, totaling 2,150.