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Old Posted Mar 29, 2019, 11:04 PM
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What are the odds that the Campus Martius expansion windows are finished before the little caesars hq opens? Lol.
I'm 100% positive the windows on One Campus Martius will be finished before Little Caesar's headquarters has all of its windows in, let alone actually be open.
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Old Posted Mar 30, 2019, 3:54 AM
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That's a bit unfair considering the OCM has just flat plain windows. LCHQ has specially made windows that turned out to be not engineered well-enough to deal with the climate. Now if the Hudson's manages to get all its windows in before the LCHQ...
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Old Posted Mar 30, 2019, 4:42 AM
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That's a bit unfair considering the OCM has just flat plain windows. LCHQ has specially made windows that turned out to be not engineered well-enough to deal with the climate. Now if the Hudson's manages to get all its windows in before the LCHQ...
I don’t think that justifies taking 3 years to complete a 9 story building. They’ve been installing the windows for over a year.
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Old Posted Mar 30, 2019, 5:45 AM
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I don’t think that justifies taking 3 years to complete a 9 story building. They’ve been installing the windows for over a year.
I mean, the engineering of the component of a building is pretty important to the completion of said building. It doesn't matter how big or small the building is, if something as major as the windows can't handle the weather, then it can never be completed until that issue is fixed. Given that no other building has pizza-shaped windows, there's one maker of these windows, and the steel structure of the building is shaped specifically to fit the unusual shape of the windows, it's definitely not an easy or quick fix.
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Report: Flint-based Tenacity Brewing planning Detroit expansion

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Report: Flint-based Tenacity Brewing planning Detroit expansion
Aleanna Siacon, Detroit Free Press Published 10:36 a.m. ET March 30, 2019


Tenacity Brewing, currently based in Flint, has set its eyes on Detroit for a planned expansion into the city's Virginia Park neighborhood, reports say.

Co-owner of Tenacity Brewing, Jason Caya, told Crain's Detroit Business they have a 10-year lease at 8517 Second Avenue and are working out plans to establish a café and taproom, called Tenacity Craft, by mid-summer.
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You know things are heating up when a hipster micro-brewery from Flint is opening a second location in a residential neighborhood in Detroit.
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Gilbert goes big with revised 1401’ Hudson tower
April 1, 2019 at 4:00 PM by Dan Howarth

New York firm SHoP Architects' regeneration plans for a former department store in Downtown Detroit, which include building the city and state's tallest tower, have undergone dramatic revisions. The studio has refreshed the design of the mixed-use development on the J L Hudson's Department Store site, to include an updated program and increased height.
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Old Posted Apr 2, 2019, 5:16 AM
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April fools prank?
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April fools prank?
Talk about last minute. Lol. Almost fell for it
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A new Union Joints restaurant heading to District Detroit development

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The restaurant group behind suburban hotspots Vinsetta Garage, Clarkston Union, Gran Castor and more is bringing a new restaurant to Detroit proper.

In a joint news release with Olympia Development, Clarkston-based Union Joints announced it would be opening an as-yet-undisclosed dining concept to anchor the Little Caesars headquarters campus expansion at Woodward and Columbia in Detroit.

The 14,000-square-foot space will feature a second-floor patio with elevated views of Comerica Park.
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According to the release, funding for the new Union Joint has been secured and the goal is to open before the end of the year, but that's contingent upon city approval and other complex moving parts.
Good to hear the financing is already here for the build-out.
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Talk about last minute. Lol. Almost fell for it
Couldn't resist.
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https://www.crainsdetroit.com/voices...-hilton-garden

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Old Posted Apr 2, 2019, 10:22 PM
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University of Detroit high school plans to buy, redevelop Detroit rec center

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University of Detroit Jesuit High School plans to buy a former recreation center from the city of Detroit, renovate it and add athletic fields to its grounds.

The $625,000 property purchase and a new community benefits agreement still require City Council's approval. It's expected to be referred to committee in Tuesday's session.

The private, college-preparatory school for boys would make building improvements at the vacant, 20,500-square-foot Johnson Recreation Center near the intersection of Eight Mile Road and Wyoming Avenue in northwest Detroit. It's about a half mile north of the University of Detroit Jesuit campus.

The school, founded in Detroit in 1877, wants to use the building for locker rooms, gyms and meeting rooms, according to a letter dated Thursday from Alton James, chair of the City Planning Commission, and submitted to City Council. It has plans for the open 10.5 acres around the rec center, too. It would update the Joe Louis Park playground and create three competition-grade fields for soccer and lacrosse.


Detroit City FC to add suites from shipping containers

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Semi-pro soccer team Detroit City FC, seeking revenue to fund its move to professional status later this year, will add suites made from refurbished industrial shipping containers as VIP seating at its home stadium in Hamtramck.

Four of the steel containers will be placed on newly poured concrete pads behind the goal at the north end of Keyworth Stadium, the school district-owned historic venue used by the wildly popular semi-pro soccer club since 2016. Each of the containers will be divided into three suites that can accommodate 16 people, said Detroit City FC CEO Sean Mann, and seven of the 12 suites have been leased.

The suites can be leased for $10,000 for the season, or per match starting at $800, Mann said.


Detroit nonprofit founder sees vacant field as 'beacon of hope'

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Detroit — Today, a grass field on 15th Street, on Detroit's west side, is snow-covered but otherwise bare, marked only by a pink sign hinting things soon will be different.

This time next year, weather permitting, tulips will begin their spring bloom, to be followed in the summer by lavender.

Bees will buzz on the far east end of the lot, just close enough to be accessible by anyone interested, but not so close as to scare off anyone. Books will fill a small library. Children will gather for story time.

That lot transformation will come courtesy of NW Goldberg Cares, a nonprofit granted $9,000 by Detroit Future City to build a tulip garden and bring programs to a space that's sat empty since the home on the lot was demolished about three years ago. The NW is short for "northwest."
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The Mackenzie House is on the move



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On Monday, April 1, the David Mackenzie house began its slow journey to its new location. While the house is moving less than a single city block, it’s expected to arrive at its destination on Wednesday, April 3.
Could passenger train service between Detroit and Toronto reopen?

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There hasn’t been passenger rail connecting Detroit and Toronto since the late 1960s. Amtrak wants that to change.

In its annual report submitted to Congress that includes grant requests for 2020, the rail operator included a line item labeled “Restoration of the Detroit-Toronto Service.”

The funding required? “TBD.”

The FAST Act passed by Congress in 2015 allocated $1.8 billion for Amtrak through 2020. In the report, the reopening of the Detroit-Toronto service appeared in the “augmented” funding items. Amtrak will submit a more detailed reauthorization proposal, presumably with a price tag for the line, later this year.
Fingers-crossed.. Also, has anyone seen progress on MCS? I haven't been over there in a while.
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Could passenger train service between Detroit and Toronto reopen?



Fingers-crossed.. Also, has anyone seen progress on MCS? I haven't been over there in a while.
They won’t begin any exterior work until the summer. As far as I know, they’ve been focusing on drying the interior and patching the roof to prevent further water damage until they replace the roof.
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Old Posted Apr 3, 2019, 10:55 PM
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Lenny Kravitz firm to help design new Temple Detroit hotel

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The $72 million redevelopment of the former Standard Accident Insurance Co. building in downtown Detroit is slated to feature a new hotel called Temple Detroit and have an interior design by rock star Lenny Kravitz's New York City-based Kravitz Design, the project backers announced Wednesday.

The Albert Kahn-designed building at 640 Temple St., a block west of the historic Masonic Temple, is to have 100 rooms and 70 apartments, adding to a bevy of hotel space planned and under construction in and around Detroit's central business district. There are more than 2,000 rooms recently built or in the pipeline to add to its existing 5,000 or so.

Los Angeles-based sbe is the hospitality group behind Temple Hotel, part of the company's House of Originals brand, according to a news release. That line of hotels has properties in London, Istanbul, Miami Beach and New York.

It is anticipated to open in June 2020 along with the rental apartments, with 20 percent of those being deemed affordable for those making 80 percent of the area median income. sbe is run by Sam Nazarian, who started his business career in telecommunications and then branched into entertainment and hospitality, according to a December profile in Hotel Management magazine. Men's Journal called him "one of the premier leaders in the luxury lifestyle industry."


Detroit studies restoring passenger trains to Michigan Central Station

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DETROIT – More than 30 years after the last passenger train left Michigan Central Station, Ford Motor Co. and regional leaders are studying whether Amtrak service can return to the iconic building, Bridge Magazine has learned.

A $30,000 feasibility study commissioned by the Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority is underway and should wrap up by month’s end, and discussions are ongoing between Ford, the City of Detroit and other transportation officials, said Kyle Burleson, executive director for the Port Authority.

The development comes one year after Ford bought the building – which had become one of Detroit’s best-known symbols of blight – for $90 million and announced plans for a $1 billion restoration. The Dearborn-based automaker plans to bring 5,000 jobs to the building and surrounding area to work on autonomous and electric cars.

The big question is not only how much it would cost to restore passenger rail service at the 106-year-old building, but where to get the money.

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More Detroit hotel are in the pipeline. Here's why

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It was only a decade ago that downtown Detroit hoteliers were struggling to fill not even half of all their empty rooms.

Today, hotel occupancy and nightly rates in downtown are at near-record highs and greater downtown is in the middle of a building boom of small and midsize boutique hotels.

Industry insiders contend that all the building activity does not reflect any bubble, but rather the strong unmet demand for more hotel rooms in Detroit.

So many new hotel projects have recently opened or been announced that the hospitality business is facing a different challenge: keeping track of all the new Detroit hotels.
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W/r/t MCS: I think the best way to return service to it is:

1. Extend commuter rail at least as far as Pontiac and Ann Arbor (so the Wolverine doesn't have to do double duty in Metro Detroit). This way the Wolverine can also terminate in Detroit instead of running through Detroit.

2. Create a corridor service directly linking Detroit with Lansing and Grand Rapids (and Muskegon?). This links Michigan's three biggest cities in a single corridor; more corridors terminating at MCS offer more destinations and make it a far more important hub.

3. Create a commuter/corridor line linking Detroit with Toledo, which has plenty of capacity for additional service and is a secondary city just outside the Metro Detroit conurbation.

4. Work with VIA Rail Canada to extend its Windsor Line trains to Detroit. Windsor is not the metro's primate city; Detroit is.

5. Amtrak may be thinking about making a Chicago-Detroit-Toronto train. This is a bad idea. Both the Wolverine and Windsor corridors need to be at 110 mph throughout before such a project becomes viable. Instead, the needs need to be focusing on making MCS both a commuter and regional rail hub first and foremost.

Edit: I just realized something: There's third rail in that old MCS photo! I had no idea the NYC was running motors outside its New York City metro lines!
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Michigan Central Station to be powered by renewable energy, other updates from Ford’s first community meeting

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The blueprint of Michigan Central Station presented last night designated the famous ground floor and its imposing vaults for “amenities and community space,” which could mean a food hall, retail, open space for public meetings, or all the above. The middle floors would be offices for Ford and partners. The top floors for “hospitality”—either lofts, rentals, or hotel rooms.
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The biggest near-term project, which will get underway in the next few weeks, is the demolition of the Lincoln Brass factory at 2051 Rosa Parks Boulevard. Bardelli said the building will be gone by the end of June. Ford will do continual air and sound monitoring, as well as have a tight route for truck traffic, so as not to disrupt or harm nearby residents.

A new building will be constructed on the site, with the design phase beginning early next year and a completion date in 2022. The book depository has a 2021 completion date.
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There are multiple notices posted on the fencing for “The Mid” regarding a community meeting concerning the project on April 11th.
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Update: Mackenzie House is sitting about 80ft from its new home. Just waiting on the new foundations.

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