Izzyindetroit Member Username: Izzyindetroit
Post Number: 1 Registered: 07-2008
| Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 11:23 am: | |
If this North Korean Hotel some how finally gets finished, then the Book Tower would become the tallest abandoned building in the world. Also, correct me if I am wrong but I think that would also bump the Broderick Building into second place. http://planetizen.com/node/341 28 Go Detroit Go! |
Kid_dynamite Member Username: Kid_dynamite
Post Number: 622 Registered: 06-2007
| Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 11:30 am: | |
Does that hotel qualify as an abandoned building? You would think it would had to be occupied or utilized to be abandoned. It was just not completed. |
Kingofdetroit Member Username: Kingofdetroit
Post Number: 97 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 11:33 am: | |
Dang, tallest abandoned bldg. I like that. I like that a lot... |
Rjlj Member Username: Rjlj
Post Number: 610 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 11:36 am: | |
Book Tower and the Broderick Tower both have 1st floor functioning businesses in them. Does that make them abandoned? |
Kingofdetroit Member Username: Kingofdetroit
Post Number: 100 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 11:51 am: | |
Yeah I didn't know that the Book was "abandoned" I just assumed it's totally possible in this city. Haha. I used to order falafels in the Book. |
Rb336 Member Username: Rb336
Post Number: 7062 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 12:16 pm: | |
http://i27.photobucket.com/alb ums/c155/wingspread/LJ_02/ryug yong-hotel-lg.jpg |
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 7847 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 12:18 pm: | |
Just what a country that shuns outsiders and has no domestic economy needs: a giant hotel. |
Wolverine Member Username: Wolverine
Post Number: 542 Registered: 04-2004
| Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 12:22 pm: | |
"Book Tower and the Broderick Tower both have 1st floor functioning businesses in them. Does that make them abandoned?" No, it makes them an embarrassment. And a better reason to have them renovated as soon as possible. |
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 3127 Registered: 09-2007
| Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 12:23 pm: | |
Yes, but the tenants are just bars... |
Crawford Member Username: Crawford
Post Number: 272 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 1:09 pm: | |
Mexico City has at least one taller abandoned building than the Book Tower. |
Dtowncitylover Member Username: Dtowncitylover
Post Number: 230 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 1:34 pm: | |
The hotel looks like a roller coaster. |
Izzyindetroit Member Username: Izzyindetroit
Post Number: 2 Registered: 07-2008
| Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 3:34 pm: | |
"Mexico City has at least one taller abandoned building than the Book Tower." And what building is that?? |
Crawford Member Username: Crawford
Post Number: 273 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 4:30 pm: | |
The Mexico City WTC is mostly abandoned, but Torre Insignia has been completely abandoned for decades, and looks sorta like that North Korean hotel. |
Gistok Member Username: Gistok
Post Number: 7151 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 4:49 pm: | |
They're probably finishing the hotel so that western businessmen can stay there while they start making business ventures there to build plants for cheap workers to undercut the more expensive labor costs of China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam. Just think of all the USA Dollar Stores that will be undercut with 50 Cent Stores of products made in destitute North Korea. What worry about communism and nuclear proliferation? USA Business Ethics don't bother with the messy task of having a conscience... or for that matter the sacrifice of 10's of thousands of American lives sacrificed in past wars with these same tyrants. We should just cozy up to them (for the sake of profit) and fogetaboutit... |
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit
Post Number: 1901 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 5:16 pm: | |
"The hotel looks like a roller coaster." They should put one on there... and screw Vegas lol |
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit
Post Number: 1902 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 5:18 pm: | |
The Mexican WTC looks quite occupied to me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H otel_de_Mexico |
Crawford Member Username: Crawford
Post Number: 274 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 5:44 pm: | |
The main Mexico City WTC tower was completely abandoned for years. It was then renovated and completely occupied, but is again largely emptied out. It's a building that should have never been built. Torre Insignia, which is a strange building in a crappy part of town, is 100% abandoned (and will never be occupied), but I looked it up on Emporis, and it is only 417 feet, which puts it below the Book and David Stott towers. There are tons of large abandoned buildings in Mexico City, but they are mixed in among occupied buildings, and the issues are very different than in Detroit. |
Dbest Member Username: Dbest
Post Number: 109 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 7:34 pm: | |
North Korea is still looking for investors to complete the project. Any body interested? LOL |
Deteamster Member Username: Deteamster
Post Number: 131 Registered: 07-2007
| Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 8:09 pm: | |
Yeah, revitalizing downtown has done wonders for the city! This is why pouring so many resources for three decades into a one square mile radius is the shittiest idea in the world. Our downtown is a Disneyland, with stadiums and pretty lights and fountains to get the ooh's and the ahh's of the suburbanites, who then become convinced Detroit is on the verge of a Renaissance. Yeah, that Renaissance has been coming for about 30 years. But but all we need is one more shiney new downtown project! Once stable neighborhoods are falling apart and the city has lost hundreds of thousands of people, and crime has remained at astronomical levels while Coleman has been putting up awnings on abandoned hotels in the CBD and Kwame has opened casinos. It is all lipstick on a pig. Our downtown can't even keep its own grandiose skyscrapers occupied. Screw downtown, I never even go there, except to get my haircut. Screw pouring any more money into it either. Put the streetlights back on. |
Wolverine Member Username: Wolverine
Post Number: 543 Registered: 04-2004
| Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 8:24 pm: | |
^ None of that is going to change. This happens everywhere. Nearly every major city is obsessed with making huge investments in their CBD, while neighborhoods and basic services suffer. |