  Chefdave Member Username: Chefdave Post Number: 53 Registered: 04-2004 Posted From: 68.62.22.149 |
I know this was on a thread before but what is the history of the building. I ate there for the first time on saturday and admired the building. | ||
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit Post Number: 508 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 65.42.23.2 |
I love the atmosphere in Cheli's, I see a lot of people with laptops.. do they have free WIFI? The burgers there are the bomb.. sorry I didn't answer your question.. just wanted to give kudos :-D It is a nice looking building, very well constructed.. nice n sturdy on the inside. | ||
Ndavies Member Username: Ndavies Post Number: 1831 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 129.9.163.234 |
It's the womens exchange building. We've discussed it a bazillion times. https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/23585/25999.html https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/36206/34687.html https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/50492/50402.html https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/11557/22174.html | ||
Bob Member Username: Bob Post Number: 1003 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 152.163.100.8 |
Bet Cheli's will do huge business this summer with the Tigers being much improved and having larger crowds. An since Cheli's is located a few feet from Comerica Park's GCP entrance. | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 10102 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 64.118.137.226 |
NDavies, So you mean to tell me that if you grew tired of your woman that you could simply take her to this place back in the day and trade her in? How did popularity ever drop off to the point that they closed? | ||
Rjlj Member Username: Rjlj Post Number: 46 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 63.171.81.135 |
I wonder how many rumors and false claims were made in all those posts? | ||
Haydenth Member Username: Haydenth Post Number: 53 Registered: 05-2005 Posted From: 67.107.50.35 |
I really enjoyed Cheli's Chili last time I was there, but it was a little on the pricey side I thought. | ||
Chris_rohn Member Username: Chris_rohn Post Number: 240 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 69.220.233.37 |
pulled pork sandwiches. yum. | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 1574 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 69.221.77.142 |
Great adaptive re-use of a beautiful building by Cheli's. We need even more of this downtown. | ||
Patrick Member Username: Patrick Post Number: 3420 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 65.222.10.3 |
uh oh, Chefdave broke the rule that Ndavies made on here. | ||
Gambling_man Member Username: Gambling_man Post Number: 741 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 199.178.193.5 |
Chris, If you think Chelis pulled pork is good, you obviously haven't had Slows yet.....I'm hooked on that shit. | ||
E_hemingway Member Username: E_hemingway Post Number: 676 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 68.42.176.123 |
Gotta agree. Slows cue is the best. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2144 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 4.229.105.205 |
After re-reading all the old threads about the Women's Exchange, it's funny how the discussion of this building always leads to food threadjacking! The Chick-Fil-A threadjacking on one thread, the burger threadjacking on another... and now pulled pork....  Getting back to the building... IIRC.... the Women's Exchange was the place in 1916 where Henry Ford's only child Edsel Ford met his future wife Eleanor Clay for the first time. Because Mike Ilitch couldn't get the Women's Exchange building as part of the Comerica Park eminent domain process, he purposely ignored any requests from potential suitors for discussions about parking for that building. Except of course when Mr. Chelios came around... he couldn't ignore one of his own sports stars, and eventually got over that grudge over the "decorative sidewalk" issue... and the rest is history. Now about that pulled pork at Slows.... is it better than Memphis Smoke House?? (Message edited by Gistok on May 23, 2006) | ||
Rjlj Member Username: Rjlj Post Number: 47 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 63.171.81.135 |
I highly doubt Mike Illitch had any consideration of Chelios opening a restaurant downtown if and when he went for this building. I don't even think this particular restaurant was a consideration 6 years ago. I don't think Chelios even owns the building. Can anyone say with 100% certainty who owns the building? | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 311 Registered: 12-2005 Posted From: 65.185.132.134 |
Rjlj--according to this article, Cheli himself owns the building. http://www.detnews.com/2005/bu siness/0507/15/D01-248661.htm | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 10104 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 64.118.137.226 |
Not only does he own the building, he has a $1 million loft on the top floor and is seen quite frequently downstairs. I just missed him this past Sunday. | ||
Upinottawa Member Username: Upinottawa Post Number: 385 Registered: 09-2005 Posted From: 198.103.184.76 |
Threadjack alert: will Cheli be playing for the Wings next season? | ||
Hamtramck_steve Member Username: Hamtramck_steve Post Number: 2960 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 71.148.29.71 |
Yes. | ||
Upinottawa Member Username: Upinottawa Post Number: 386 Registered: 09-2005 Posted From: 198.103.184.76 |
Thanks. Okay, now back to pork.... | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 5556 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 67.71.65.144 |
I heard that the Chilli place is closing and a China Club is going to open in there. Think how awesome this will be, a China Club across the sreet from the Post. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2146 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 4.229.129.215 |
Aiw, are you surea about that? The China Club interest in the place predates Chelios's interest. But they, like other couldn't get anyone from the Ilitch organization to return their phone calls over the parking situation (i.e. not enough of it). | ||
Rjlj Member Username: Rjlj Post Number: 48 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 63.171.81.135 |
I guess I missed the news that he bought it. I have seen him hanging out there on occasion also. $1 million loft on top of the Chili bar? | ||
Rsa Member Username: Rsa Post Number: 858 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.213.81.126 |
gistok is right. china club had interest in the place first. they eventually backed out 'cuz ilitches wouldn't give them the time of day for using the adjacent lot (for patio space, not parking). there was also a minor problem with size; they wanted more space. came to a tentative agreement to utilize some of the churches storefronts adjacent to the club, but that eventually fell thru as well... | ||
Dabirch Member Username: Dabirch Post Number: 1506 Registered: 06-2004 Posted From: 216.31.144.2 |
AIW was joking. Man you people can be literal. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 5558 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 64.228.201.179 |
Yeah. It was a joke. | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 10115 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 64.118.137.226 |
What about the Hard Rock Cafe? "Another site" had it closing like 3 months ago, they said it was fact, 1 month after Super Bowl they were shutting down. | ||
Tayshaun22 Member Username: Tayshaun22 Post Number: 178 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 69.14.101.116 |
Wasn't this you, Sport?
http://sof8mile.blogspot.com/2 006/04/pistons-are-lookin-good .html | ||
Bob Member Username: Bob Post Number: 1008 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 205.188.116.137 |
Last thing I heard was that Hard Rock was doing just fine in Downtown Detroit. | ||
Tayshaun22 Member Username: Tayshaun22 Post Number: 182 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 69.14.101.116 |
Uh, Sport? |
