  E_hemingway Member Username: E_hemingway Post Number: 709 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 68.42.176.123 |
The Detroit Blog guy, www.detroitblog.org, most recently wrote about the Harvard Square Building. I also stumbled into the Hub for the first time last week and was impressed with it. Quite well done. However, Detroit Blog's photos of the floors above the Hub give a starkly different picture of the building. Does anyone know what the status of this building is or who owns it? Why isn't something being done? It seems like something could be easily done with it. | ||
E_hemingway Member Username: E_hemingway Post Number: 714 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 68.42.176.123 |
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Royce Member Username: Royce Post Number: 1631 Registered: 07-2004 Posted From: 69.220.34.39 |
What I think is needed to get residential development started at the Harvard Square Building is the purchase of the parking lot next to it. Residents want access to their cars via a lot next to the building they live in or access to an underground lot. Carrying groceries, even from the Opera House garage, and then being confronted by a bum or worse yet a robber is not what someone living downtown wants to deal with on a constant basis. Secured parking where one does not have to come in contact with the public is a strong incentive to get people to move into some of these remaining and vacant downtown buildings. I know this is not realistic for every downtown residential development, but where it has happened those developments have taken off( specifically the Kales Building development). The parking lot next to Harvard Square probably can't be purchased. The alternative is for the city to build another parking garage on the current surface parking lot at Broadway and Grand River and, either via skywalk or underground tunnel, connect the new parking garage to Harvard Square as well as to the building right next to it. If this happens, then the Harvard Square Building might get developed. |
