  1953 Member Username: 1953 Post Number: 659 Registered: 12-2004 Posted From: 209.104.146.146 |
There are new signs on the United Artists Building and Milner Hotel. The UA sign announces a "premier development opportunity" on five acres of historic Grand Circus Park frontage, while the Milner signage is a spiffy new hotel sign on the part of the building formerly covered by the Madison Lennox. | ||
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 6395 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 198.208.251.24 |
Could this be paraphrased: We are tearing the schitt down? | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 1136 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 141.213.173.94 |
If someone could get a photo of the new Milner and post it that would be great. | ||
Tetsua Member Username: Tetsua Post Number: 453 Registered: 01-2004 Posted From: 69.246.5.196 |
Photo is on the link on the bottom https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/5/63412.html?1137012699 | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 5332 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 208.27.111.125 |
If any of you find yourselves in the area of those signs, be on the lookout for lightning bolts. | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 701 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 66.19.18.91 |
I cleaned it up a bit in PS, the lettering wasn't clear.  | ||
Lmichigan Member Username: Lmichigan Post Number: 2990 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 67.172.95.197 |
They are doing two things. First, they are covering up an obvioulsy abandoned building for the Superbowl. And, secondly, it's a great advertising piece for those looking to redevelop or tear down and develop anew. They seem to be testing the waters. No prominent developer/redeveloper can now say "well, I didn't know they were selling." | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 1736 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 4.229.6.82 |
The Illitch's don't own the whole Tuller/UA block. A small parking lot directly in front of that sign is not owned by them. Neither is the back corner on Adams/Clifford away from GCP. Those two parcels of the block are owned by a certain Harold Shapiro of Bloomfield Hills. And as someone who posted a 1930's map of downtown showed, those 2 parcels have been vacant since at least the 1930's. | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 702 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 66.19.18.91 |
Here's the parking lot scene in the 30s for the west GCP.  green for surface blue for garage | ||
Michael Member Username: Michael Post Number: 702 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 67.38.9.51 |
Funny, one of the workers who put up the UA sign came by a job site I was working on today to visit someone he knew. As he was leaving, a few of us commented about the sign and he said that he had been contracted to install 200 pipe signs and then to take them down after 1 month. I guess these signs are just temporary window dressing, unlike the Statler awnings. | ||
Eric Member Username: Eric Post Number: 284 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 35.11.158.84 |
Temporary signs? I don't like the sound of that this looks like Super Bowl stunt to me. It'll be intresting to see how this plays out (Message edited by eric on January 11, 2006) | ||
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 6400 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 198.208.251.24 |
The bitch about them being temporary is that Ilitch will get praised for trying to do somethingby the local media. Once the signs come down and the properties continue to rot or get turned into falt lots he will not receive the bad press that should come with it. |
