Detroitbill Member Username: Detroitbill
Post Number: 315 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Monday, September 10, 2007 - 2:15 pm: | |
Does anyone know about the progress of this building ? You see construction lights on but I had thought the project was supposed to be completed months ago? I thought the floors were sold out.. |
Mind_field Member Username: Mind_field
Post Number: 776 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, September 10, 2007 - 3:18 pm: | |
Yeah, and when is the exterior lighting going to illuminate the facade? I'm pretty sure I've seen it dark at night when I have walked past. |
Spiritofdetroit Member Username: Spiritofdetroit
Post Number: 570 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Monday, September 10, 2007 - 3:20 pm: | |
it has been very disappointing to see the progress on this building at least visibly stall the last number of months |
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner
Post Number: 1413 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Monday, September 10, 2007 - 4:01 pm: | |
My daily walk takes me by this building. I've seen lots of activity there all year. On friday I saw about a half dozen or so work men in front of the building having lunch. Have patience, its a large old building, its going to need a lot of work. I'm just glad it don't reek like a sewer any longer, thats what Hudson's smelled like during its last years. |
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1
Post Number: 10089 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, September 10, 2007 - 4:02 pm: | |
Most of the work done on places like this isn't immediately visible. |
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13
Post Number: 2241 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, September 10, 2007 - 4:04 pm: | |
Many delays are no fault of the owners. There's typically a lot of bureaucratic red tape with projects like that. I'm sure that vandalism/theft is a problem during construction, too. |
Gannon Member Username: Gannon
Post Number: 10055 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Monday, September 10, 2007 - 4:06 pm: | |
Not the developer's fault. Delays caused in part by scrappers who stole the motors for the elevators...keeping them from getting heavy stuff to the upper floors. Lotsa frustration...seems par for the building industry, especially in Detroit. |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 4124 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, September 10, 2007 - 4:18 pm: | |
http://www.detroityes.com/news /070830/601pics/102.htm Look in the front door^ for yourself. It is happening. As mentioned, delays beyond control of the partners and the theft of the elevator engine by copper scrappers have set them back. No one wants it done more than they do. |
Xd_brklyn Member Username: Xd_brklyn
Post Number: 301 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, September 10, 2007 - 4:29 pm: | |
Thanks for the updates. Was wondering about the progress of the Vinton. Was sorry to hear the building got hit by scrappers awhile back. Glad progress continues. (Message edited by xD_brklyn on September 10, 2007) |
Supersport Member Username: Supersport
Post Number: 11675 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, September 10, 2007 - 5:04 pm: | |
Perhaps Ernie Harwell should join their team. |
Burnsie Member Username: Burnsie
Post Number: 1145 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Monday, September 10, 2007 - 6:38 pm: | |
Detroitplanner wrote that Hudson's smelled like a sewer...I remember that smell very well. It wasn't as offensive as a sewer, though...more of a simple damp smell: so many parts of the building had gotten wet or damp, and even after drying out the smell lingered. |
Rsa Member Username: Rsa
Post Number: 1262 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, September 10, 2007 - 6:44 pm: | |
many abandoned buildings have that very smell. i call it nostalgia |
Gannon Member Username: Gannon
Post Number: 10066 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Monday, September 10, 2007 - 6:56 pm: | |
Not just that...after time, all of their sewer traps would most certainly dry up...allowing sewer gasses to seep into the sealed building. |
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 1662 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Monday, September 10, 2007 - 8:39 pm: | |
Are each of the units in the Vinton building doing their own thing on their own floor? That would certainly take a bit of time longer as opposed to making every unit on every floor exactly the same. |
Llyn Member Username: Llyn
Post Number: 1861 Registered: 06-2004
| Posted on Monday, September 10, 2007 - 11:40 pm: | |
Yes. |