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A New Building for Detroits Pension Funds?

Believe it or not Detroit’s pension funds want to build a new $7.4M headquarters building on the riverfront and relocate from the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center. The proposed three-story headquarters, located between the UAW’s headquarters and the River Towers Apartments, would house the pension funds’ administrative, accounting and legal operations, with room for 100 [...]

48 Vacant Buildings in the Detroit CBD

Louis Aguilar at the Detroit News has assembled an unofficial list of vacant buildings in Detroit’s central business district. The list is not all inclusive, but based on the building having no signs of life (No tenants!), be 5 stories or taller, and contain 10,000 square feet or more. The last two criteria are the [...]

8 Ways to Experience Detroit Architecture

So you’d like to see some of Detroit’s architecture? No problem. There are lots of groups that offer architecture tours in and around Metro Detroit. I’ll try to highlight a few of them to get you started on planning your trip. Before that, here’s a few things to keep in mind: Most tours are offered [...]

Quick Updates [Updated - I Know...]

I’ve been distracted lately and haven’t had a chance to keep up-to-date on some recent happenings. Here’s a quick run down of some hot issues: Michigan Central Train Station You may recall that the Detroit City Council authorized that the MCS be demolished and the invoice be sent to the current owner. Well, on May [...]

Map Detroit?

I was going through my other sites page recently (as if I don’t have better things to do) and noticed that Map Detroit no longer works. I dug deeper and found some really great maps hosted by Navaciti. They appear to be demonstration sites so expect some bugs, but they display enormous potential. Belle Isle [...]

Chrysler’s Auburn Hills HQ Rumor

I don’t know if many of you caught this on the internet earlier this week, but some sources are claiming that Chrysler’s Auburn Hills Headquarters (built from 1993 – 1996) was designed with a second purpose. This all seems to have started with a Business Week article that was published on April 23rd, 2009: When [...]

Timeline Coming…

I just have to share this with you! I’ve been working on a way to represent a timeline of Detroit’s buildings and architects. I think I’m almost there. I have some formating and styling issues to clean up, but at least the model is working. [ Timeline ] Let me know what you think.

General Motors PCC-Central

Last week I shared an older building that GM vacated. In honor of today’s news (1600 additional involuntary terminations), how about a more recent building that GM vacated? Located in Pontiac, Michigan the Pontiac Centerpoint Campus, formerly known as the Truck Product Center, is actually 3 separate buildings North, Central, and East) that GM developed [...]

GM Truck and Bus

Back in 2004 I had the opportunity to tour the old GM Truck & Bus Assembly Plant on Piquette avenue right across from Fisher Body Plant 21. At that time, the plant had been placed in cold shutdown and vacant since 1997 when GM moved production of all school buses and mid-sized commercial vehicles to [...]

Daniel H. Burnham

2009 marks the centennial of Daniel Burnham’s 1909 “Plan for Chicago” which modeled future growth of the city after Paris and included abundant parks and public spaces. Many ideas (wide boulevards, classical facades, and lush gardens) from the highly successful 1892 World’s Far can be seen in the Chicago Plan. During this same time period, [...]

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A New Building for Detroits Pension Funds?

48 Vacant Buildings in the Detroit CBD

8 Ways to Experience Detroit Architecture

Quick Updates [Updated - I Know...]

Map Detroit?

Chrysler’s Auburn Hills HQ Rumor

Timeline Coming…

General Motors PCC-Central

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