  Bigtreble Member Username: Bigtreble Post Number: 1 Registered: 02-2009 |
Anyone know what they're building between the RenCen and Hart Plaza along the river (right next to the 'pumphouse')? A construction crew has been constantly pounding 30foot steel beams into the ground for the past 2 weeks. | ||
Wpitonya Member Username: Wpitonya Post Number: 82 Registered: 08-2005 |
I think it is the new passenger terminal for cruise ships. I know people dislike when pics are asked for, but...pics? I cannot get back to Detroit until April. | ||
Kryptonite Member Username: Kryptonite Post Number: 89 Registered: 11-2008 |
Bigtreble, yes there is a new passenger terminal being built behind the Ren Cen. According to what I read in the news it will accomodate all dinner/sightseeing cruises and also any Great Lakes cruises that may happen in the future. Also for special use for any passenger-carrying vessels stopping in Detroit. Sounds kind of cool to me. | ||
French777 Member Username: French777 Post Number: 691 Registered: 10-2006 |
Ah at first I thought the Ren Shore Condominiums were going up. . . .This is good news though | ||
Bigtreble Member Username: Bigtreble Post Number: 2 Registered: 02-2009 |
Thanks Wpitonya, looks like you're right: "Dock project to add wharf $4M addition would help during low water" Jun. 30, 2008 http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20080630/SUB/806300349/1069 View from the RenCen attached.  | ||
Guito13 Member Username: Guito13 Post Number: 11 Registered: 07-2008 |
Correct. I jus wish this darn pounding noise will stop (they are driving in the beams). BTW, that pic looks like it was taken almost from my office in tower 400.... | ||
Bigtreble Member Username: Bigtreble Post Number: 3 Registered: 02-2009 |
guito13- i think we're coworkers  | ||
Gnome Member Username: Gnome Post Number: 2381 Registered: 08-2007 |
The new wharf will be powered, in part, by an experimental energy generator. The inventor is a U of M professor who has created a start-up company to build and install his contraption. No word yet on how he's going to stop zebra mussels from gumming up the works. http://www.vortexhydroenergy.c om/ | ||
Kryptonite Member Username: Kryptonite Post Number: 90 Registered: 11-2008 |
It should be a great improvement to the riverfront. The project takes a dumpy area of the waterfront and redevelops it and no doubt it will be tied in to the riverwalk and will be the focal point for all passenger excursions on the river. So, a great change for downtown with a very positive impact on the waterfront. super! | ||
French777 Member Username: French777 Post Number: 717 Registered: 10-2006 |
any New updates? | ||
Fishtoes2000 Member Username: Fishtoes2000 Post Number: 726 Registered: 06-2005 |
It's still under construction and the RiverWalk is detoured along Atwater. The RiverWalk will be opened temporarily during the Final Four. | ||
Bigtreble Member Username: Bigtreble Post Number: 4 Registered: 02-2009 |
Update: Excavation and concrete pouring started last week, (along with dumping a couple dozen truckloads of broken concrete into the river’s edge). Does anyone know what structure used to be situated in that location? It looks like the construction crews are performing an archaeological dig on concrete footings from a former structure. [Photo: Note digging to the right of the green trailer, surrounded by orange fence… pre-construction was an empty parking lot]  | ||
Gnome Member Username: Gnome Post Number: 2533 Registered: 08-2007 |
http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/ i/image/image-idx?page=index;c=rcn;g=campusgroupic click on Browse All Images the wsu virtual library has 300+ photos of the building of the ren cen with pics of the original model ... pics also of the old warehouse district and the Shorecrest, the yontenaga club, the Palms, and the building of Hart plaza, etc. Btw, a lot of really ugly cars. Looks like the pics were taken on a cold messy day in March. ------ Sorry, I checked the link and it takes you to the entire wsu collection. If you google "Building the Renaissance center" the proper link pops up. (Message edited by gnome on March 25, 2009) | ||
Guito13 Member Username: Guito13 Post Number: 12 Registered: 07-2008 |
I noticed that fenced off area as well. If you look close it almost appears to be seperate rooms with doors but it could be the angle im viewing it at from my office. I am rather curious to know what that used to be! |
