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Old Posted Mar 5, 2015, 10:32 PM
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Rock Venture, after being surprised by the media reports of the above discovered renderings (I guess they figured no one from Detroit would notice the architects talking about the design at a college in Los Angeles), they have released an official "more refined" rendering. The refinement seems to be nothing more than slapping Detroit stickers onto the building and adding in faux-crowds.

However, Rock Ventures reminds that this is still a work in progress and that this is not a final concept.


http://www.freep.com/story/money/bus...roit/24455707/

Minus the clutter of the rendering (which does a bad job of actually showing the building off), I actually like the building, but it definitely needs a tower component to it. It seems very incomplete without one.
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Minus the clutter of the rendering (which does a bad job of actually showing the building off), I actually like the building, but it definitely needs a tower component to it. It seems very incomplete without one.
Yeah, I was just thinking that. The renderings are fine, even if very preliminary, but a tower would seal the deal. Still, even as is I think it brings something exciting to the streetscape.
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http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/in...ans_for_a.html

What we know about plans for a new iconic building in Detroit

By David Muller
March 06, 2015


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First things first: Nothing is final.

Local Detroit media made a big deal out of the potential redevelopment of the former Hudson's site Thursday, but with very little actual news, aside from confirming that plans are moving forward.

That's not to knock the fuss, which did in fact prompt Rock Ventures to release what it says is a "more refined conceptual rendering," seen above.

But in releasing the rendering, the company also released a statement, attributed to Quicken Loans founder and Chairman Dan Gilbert, cautioning that the design is "still evolving."

That may be welcome news to some readers, who expressed distaste with the modern, swooping glass structure seen in the rendering.

In any case, here's what we know now about the project:

-Rock Ventures, Gilbert's umbrella company, intends to build something at the site.

-The company has said as much since at least February 2013, when it announced a global design competition. An Italian team won that competition in June of that year.

-The competition was never meant to signal the final design of the Hudson's project, and in November 2013 Rock Ventures enlisted New York City-based SHoP Architects to work with Detroit-based Hamilton Anderson Associates on the final design for the development.

-In February of this year, a series of designs were shown by Gregg Pasquarelli, a principal with SHoP during a lecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. In his talk, Pasquarelli doesn't specifically mention Detroit but describes "an American city going through a renaissance" and a client who owns 40-50 buildings in the area with a need for a project to serve as a "catalyst" for the neighborhood.

-Pasquarelli also mentioned museums and an amphitheater going in the building, but the Detroit Free Press reports that the museum idea has since been dropped. (It's worth nothing that Gilbert has, in the past, expressed his desire for some kind of automotive attraction in Detroit).

-Rock Ventures said Thursday it aims for the design and architecture "of a building that will be standing as a one-of-a-kind, destination for current and future generations of Detroiters and visitors alike."

-The company said it plans to announce a final design sometime during this calendar year.

-Construction is tentatively scheduled to be complete in mid-2016.


And here's what we don't know:

-An exact time frame for construction.

-The project's anticipated cost or budget.

-Whether or not the project will use public incentives.

-What the final project design will actually look like.






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I would love to see this happen. It's so hard however to see Detroit recover from its downward spiral. Such a shame to. It has some of the best art deco high rise architecture outside if New York and Chicago.
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http://www.freep.com/story/money/bus...tial/70446162/

Now confirmed, the Hudson site will include 250-residential units, 225,000 square feet of mixed-use space, plus 900 parking spaces (likely the existing parking garage).

Construction is expected to begin April 1, 2016 with "substantial" completion by 2018.

Nothing yet on how/if this changes the design on what was leaked a few weeks ago.

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Final plans for Hudson’s site could be ready in 30 days
Louis Aguilar, The Detroit News. December 21, 2015.



Billionaire Dan Gilbert’s final plans for the vacant Hudson’s site in downtown Detroit could be revealed in 30 days or sooner.

Gilbert has described the project a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." The block-long site on Woodward Avenue is where the former J.L. Hudson’s store once stood. There was a Dec. 31 deadline but Gilbert is still negotiating to buy the city-owned 900-space Premier Garage underneath the site. The deadline to settle that garage deal was given a 30-day extension.

The extension was approved Monday by the board of the city’s Downtown Development Authority, DDA, which is a unit of the Detroit Economic Growth Corp. Thomas Lewand, who is the chairman’s representative on the DDA board, said the Premier Garage and the Hudson’s site deals are linked and so it “doesn’t make sense” for one part of the agreement to go forward until all issues are settled.

Lewand said a tentative deal could be reached in less than 30 days.

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Holy shit, I read that title as "30 years" and I was like WTF??

Anyway, I can't wait to see what's gonna happen, I remember being super little and watching the demolition of the original Hudson's on TV.
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After much delay due to negotiations with the DDA, Hudson's high rise is set to start construction next year

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By Ian Thibodeau. April 27, 2016. Mlive Detroit.



A new high-rise building in Downtown Detroit could be completed by April 2020 on a site that's long been vacant and the subject of nostalgia.

The Detroit Downtown Development Authority on Wednesday approved a development agreement for the former J.L. Hudson's site, which hinged upon the $15-million sale of the 900-space Premier Underground Garage, currently owned by the city of Detroit.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who chaired the Wednesday afternoon meeting, said the city will use the $15 million to pay down some debt.

The agreement made Wednesday will allow Dan Gilbert's Rosko Development Co. LLC to begin construction on the site, pending approval from Detroit City Council.

The terms of the deal require Rosko Development to submit to the DDA finalized plans for the site by December 31. Construction would begin April 1, 2017.

By April 1, 2020, construction would be completed, bringing 225,000-square-feet of mixed-use development to a central, vacant block of Woodward Avenue.

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225,000 SQ.FT. would not be very tall on a lot as big as Hudson's.
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225,000 SQ.FT. would not be very tall on a lot as big as Hudson's.
Article got it wrong that's just the retail space in addition to 250 units of residential. It's big lot but I suspect they will break it up some way.
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225,000 SQ.FT. would not be very tall on a lot as big as Hudson's.
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Article got it wrong that's just the retail space in addition to 250 units of residential. It's big lot but I suspect they will break it up some way.
The early renderings of the swooping metallic looking structure is what would roughly equal the 225,000 square feet which is planned to possibly include retail, office space, and public areas. That square footage does not include the 250 apartments which will all (presumably) be in the tower portion.

Based on other apartment buildings in downtown Detroit and depending on the design of the tower itself, it could probably be anywhere from 250-400 feet tall. Maybe higher if the residential tower sits completely above the podium.

That's all assuming based on details that have been released so far which isn't really much to go on.
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Dan Gilbert's tower on Hudson's site to set 'high-water mark' for rent
John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press. June 2, 2016

Businessman Dan Gilbert's top aide predicted Thursday that a residential tower planned for the site of the old Hudson's store will set a new "high-water mark" for apartment rents in the city of Detroit.

Matt Cullen, president and CEO of Rock Ventures, Gilbert's umbrella entity for his wide-ranging families of companies, said the planned residential tower would represent just one component of a multi-purpose building on the site on Woodward Avenue just north of the One Campus Martius building, the former Compuware headquarters.

Speaking with the Free Press at the annual Mackinac Policy Conference, Cullen said the organization is still working out its plans against a year-end deadline to have the deal finalized for the city-owned site.

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Cullen said the "podium" portion of the building will probably measure four to six stories and a residential tower of unspecified height will rise above that. The rental rates for the apartments "will certainly set the high-water mark for rents in the city as well, just given the nature of it," Cullen said.

Apartment rental rates in the greater downtown have risen rapidly in the past few years from about $1.25 per square foot to about $2 per foot now. Cullen acknowledged that an upscale tower on the iconic Hudson's site would be priced above that level.

But Cullen emphasized that Gilbert's organization needs city approval for transfer of the site and its plan to meet a required affordable rent component in all city-supported projects.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan declared that new development receiving city assistance would reserve at least 20% of its units as "affordable," or generally residents making no more than 80% of regional median income levels. Since Gilbert would be getting a city-owned site for the project, the Duggan goal would certainly apply to it.

Cullen said the New York-based architecture firm SHoP and the Detroit-based Hamilton Anderson Associates continue to work on what appears to be an architecturally innovative design for the site.

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No renderings yet.

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Sources: 60-story building on Hudson's site one of several possibilities being considered
KIRK PINHO. Crain's Detroit Business. October 31, 2016.

Dan Gilbert's team has two months to submit its development and financing plans to the Detroit Downtown Development Authority for its plan to build a new high-rise building on the former J.L. Hudson's department store site.

It's possible that building, which would sit on the vacant 2-acre site on Woodward, could come in at 60 stories, sources are telling me.

At that height, it would dwarf virtually everything surrounding it, including the nearby David Stott Building, which is 38 stories in Capitol Park at 1150 Griswold St.

The 60-story height is one of several possibilities being weighed by Gilbert's Rock Ventures LLC, I'm told. It's not known exactly how many designs are under consideration. Rock Senior Communications Manager Carolyn Artman said the company "doesn't comment on rumors and speculation."

Renderings of the planned structure were expected to be released within two months of a DDA vote on April 27, but they have not yet been made public.

I'm told that at least part of the reason for that Gilbert's team has yet to decide on the exact programming for the building.

A year ago, after the release of a conceptual rendering of the site, Gilbert said in a statement that although the plans were evolving, it was expected to become the site of "an iconic building that will have some ties to Detroit's past, but more importantly, represent Detroit's rebirth into a creative and high-tech future."

One of the most recent formal actions on the project was the DDA approval of the sale of a 900-space parking garage underneath the site. Officials said at the time that the project includes at least 225,000 square feet of mixed use space, 700 parking spaces and 250 residential units. Dozens of retailers and restaurants are expected to be part of the project, which has been in the works for years.

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http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article...one-of-several


The center tower of the Ren Cen is 70 floors by comparison, although if this proposed tower has a fancy spire it could easily end up as the city's new tallest. Either way, it's going to change the skyline.
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let's hope they go big.

60 stories would redefine detroit's skyline, probably a new tallest for the city.

(yeah, the ren cen's tallest is 70 floors, but it's all hotel with a relatively modest floor-to-floor height. 60 stories of modern mixed-use tower would most likely stand taller)
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I'd still love to see the 80-floor Book Tower built after nearly a hundred years but a new Hudson's Tower in that range would be sweet enough...
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Gilbert launches Brush Park homes, vows to take Detroit 'vertical'
John Gallagher , Detroit Free Press. November 29, 2016.


(Photo: Max Ortiz, The Detroit News)

Businessman Dan Gilbert promised Tuesday to launch multiple new building projects in Detroit to help the city "go vertical."

Up to now, the billionaire founder and chairman of Quicken Loans has made his mark renovating older office buildings downtown. His only ground-up construction so far has been his Z Garage downtown.

But at a ceremony Tuesday to launch construction of his new City Modern project, a 410-unit residential building in Brush Park, Gilbert said the "horizontal era" of renovating older buildings is coming to an end.

"Now it's about vertical," he told a large audience including Mayor Mike Duggan at the Brush Park ceremony. "We're going to build a lot of stuff in Detroit. There's a huge demand. A lot of people say, 'Are you guys sort of done?' They ask the mayor the same question; they ask other developers that. I don't think we've started yet."

In Toronto, Gilbert noted, a score of construction cranes stand out on the skyline. Other cities including Chicago are likewise building significant projects. That's his vision for Detroit.

"It talks about the future, the optimism, the can-do efforts," he said. "Nothing gives more hope, in my opinion, than new construction in cities. That's always a sign of good things to come. I'm very, very excited about the future. We're just getting going here."

Gilbert didn't identify any of his future projects, but one that's been in the works for a long time involves the site of the former Hudson's store on Woodward Avenue in the heart of downtown. Gilbert and his team have worked for the past couple of years on plans for a major new development on the site, releasing a rendering of an architecturally innovative structure that might rise there. So far, Gilbert has remained mum on any details.

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Storied Detroit Site Would Finally Return to Former Glory Under SHoP Design

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In 1998, Detroit's 29-storey J. L. Hudson Department Store became the tallest and largest building ever imploded. The spectacular scene followed a barrage of controversy — the elegant building, designed in the Chicago School style of architecture, had prominently served as a staple of downtown retail from 1911 until its closure in 1983. Despite calls to save what had been the tallest department store in the world and the second largest after Macy's Herald Square in New York City, its fate was sadly sealed just one week before Halloween. Since then, 1206 Woodward Avenue has worn out its welcome as a four-level underground parking garage, leaving a considerable gap in the Detroit cityscape. But plans by billionaire businessman Dan Gilbert would pump new life into the storied site with a striking building designed by SHoP Architects and Hamilton Anderson Associates.
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The tower would be 734 feet tall and would become the tallest building in Detroit.
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