  Rax Member Username: Rax Post Number: 83 Registered: 11-2007 |
Just curious. | ||
Yooper Member Username: Yooper Post Number: 109 Registered: 12-2006 |
I'm not sure where this building is, but I hope it opens soon! | ||
E_hemingway Member Username: E_hemingway Post Number: 1502 Registered: 11-2004 |
About the same time as the Adams Theater. | ||
Rax Member Username: Rax Post Number: 85 Registered: 11-2007 |
Cool. That will really enhance the area surrounding GCP. This is going to be awesome when its completed. | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 6947 Registered: 02-2004 |
It's not going to open until its "PREMIER DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY" investors come to put some capital in that structure. | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 4430 Registered: 10-2003 |
Yooper, it is behind the Fox Theater on Park... https://www.detroityes.com/webisode s/2000/14park/05ParkDetroitBld g.htm | ||
Bobj Member Username: Bobj Post Number: 3571 Registered: 11-2003 |
Aren't employees from Ilitch Holdings supposed to move in there? | ||
Downtownguy Member Username: Downtownguy Post Number: 107 Registered: 07-2004 |
Ha! Ilitch hinted he was going to turn the Detroiter, Blenheim and Varney Buildings into housing for Little Caesar's employees who had expressed an interest in living downtown -- in 1988! Since then he demolished the Varney. | ||
Bobj Member Username: Bobj Post Number: 3576 Registered: 11-2003 |
Seriously, I thought the Detroit Life was going to house employees because the Fox was filled to capacity. Not housing, offices | ||
Dan Member Username: Dan Post Number: 1483 Registered: 10-2003 |
http://www.detroitlifebuilding .com/ | ||
Rax Member Username: Rax Post Number: 86 Registered: 11-2007 |
Thanks, that was helpful. | ||
Sciencefair Member Username: Sciencefair Post Number: 41 Registered: 10-2007 |
The plan was for Illitch to move offices in and rent out the retail space as well as a couple of floors. The demo is probably completed or close to, but I can't say how far the new construction has come. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 4459 Registered: 10-2003 |
Interesting floorplans on that Web site. Looks like some drunk guy at Hockeytown got a hold of a pen and a bar napkin. | ||
Billk Member Username: Billk Post Number: 194 Registered: 09-2005 |
More lights on inside today. It looks like something is being done. | ||
Xd_brklyn Member Username: Xd_brklyn Post Number: 357 Registered: 10-2003 |
If it is the same place I remember, in the first photo the two-story building across the street from the Detroit Life with the "Cadillac Restaurant" was around until the late '80s. Back then I always thought it would make a good billiard hall. Funny to see that is just what it was at one time. | ||
Downtownguy Member Username: Downtownguy Post Number: 108 Registered: 07-2004 |
Bobj, I was just referring to what Ilitch said 20 years ago. It was the beginning his pattern of acquiring buildings and then doing nothing with them. | ||
Dnvn522 Member Username: Dnvn522 Post Number: 310 Registered: 11-2004 |
Funny, I thought they wanted to move employees to the GAR building. | ||
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2 Post Number: 884 Registered: 07-2007 |
Decent location to have an office. During renovation, I hope they did a good job cleaning out the asbestos and properly disposing of it. | ||
Thegryphon Member Username: Thegryphon Post Number: 25 Registered: 11-2007 |
Dnvn, The GAR was supposed to house Olympia Development offices, Illitch's development arm. How many employees can he spread-out (GAR, Life, & the Fox)??? | ||
Dnvn522 Member Username: Dnvn522 Post Number: 314 Registered: 11-2004 |
Exactly. They don't seem to be in much of a hurry to add additional office space. | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 2237 Registered: 10-2006 |
Since the Fox Theatre, what other buildings has Ilitch rehabed? | ||
Tetsua Member Username: Tetsua Post Number: 1393 Registered: 01-2004 |
http://www.modeldmedia.com/dev elopmentnews/detlife12708.aspx | ||
Fareastsider Member Username: Fareastsider Post Number: 790 Registered: 08-2006 |
Ill wait until the doors are open.... | ||
Paulc Member Username: Paulc Post Number: 167 Registered: 03-2005 |
I just realized the other day when I walked by, that I had been confusing the Detroit Life Building with the Michigan Mutual Building (next to Fyfe's)... does anyone know the status of this building? I used to use the parking facility here and there - but otherwise the building appeared vacant. (Sorry to threadjack.) | ||
Downtownguy Member Username: Downtownguy Post Number: 118 Registered: 07-2004 |
^^He rehabbed the Madison Lenox into a parking lot. |
