Probably would be 40 if our (Chicago) politicians would stop making developers downsize their developments by as much as 350 feet. I am happy to see Detroit get a new tall skyscraper since the city is one of my favorite downtowns to visit.

I think it’s unfair to compare Detroit with Chicago. Chicago is a much larger city and has continued to build in every decade. Whereas Detroit has only now resumed significant construction within the city limits.

Hey I'm with you on that I'm from Grand Rapids Michigan right between Chicago and Detroit and I got family in both cities but it's still going to be a little bit longer for Detroit to get back to the days when Detroit and Chicago was the two big cities in the Midwest because you got Indianapolis and Columbus which has passed Detroit in population and there downtown area is probably a little bit ahead of Detroit right now

Absolutely, but let’s call it The Lake Belt because no other region employs a negative moniker to identify itself. You never hear “Hurricane Belt” or “Drought Belt” being used by people in those areas. We have the largest source of freshwater in the world. That should be our calling card. Also there are Great Lakes cities (other than Chicago) which if they were on the East Coast would be considered thriving: Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Columbus, even Grand Rapids. I lived in the New York City area for nearly a decade. There are plenty of dumpy towns along the East Coast, but those people along the coast have a ton of pride. They’re not going to allow the negative aspects of their region to define them. We should do the same here in the Lake Belt.

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@@silentmajority8365 downtown Detroit’s doing far better with crime than it has in the past definitely better than la San Fran Chicago

It should be very nice, if you walk around downtown even presently, downtown is really looking nice lately, even Gucci is going to be going in right behind the building of this new structure, we live downtown and absolutely love the views from our high-rise condo anymore, the lighting at night is particularly spectacular, our visitors and guests love the view from our windows, as do we…It’s really nice living downtown.

@@TheAS687 Despite high crime rate ..Chicago’s downtown is tourist attraction and Beautiful skyline ... Detroit unfortunately is not ..🤷‍♂️

@@greedyman9300 So what’s your point??

Not the job of Government or your fellow Americans to fix your life or subsidize your lack of ambition

silent majority I don’t live in Detroit anymore. But when the Detroit land bank has buildings that need to be torn down an they have the money to do it. Yea that falls on that branch of government.

@@penrodautorepair3170 No building are for business not Government Show me a S hole area and I'll show you a democrat diverse area Detroit's problem is more using than paying Thats all over America and getting worse There are lots of jobs but people are too lazy and think they deserve high wages with no skills or education. I struggled for years but worked my way up.

Yeah, it could've been saved, especially if Gilbert was around then ....I mean, look at that Michigan depot that building was in ruins

I totally agree with you. The Hudson's building was more than big enough to have Compuware in it as well as many of the other businesses around that area.

Yes,and I personally hiked-up TWENTY-FOUR floors of unclad,hard concrete stairs every morning to strap boxes of explosive copper tubes to the support beams at my workstation on the 24th floor in a building withOUT a single elevator on the premises!! I strapped around 300 pounds of explosives to the support beams,during the entire project!! The four sub basements were all FLOODED with FIFTEEN years worth of accumulated rainfall,and when we went down there and cut the floodlights on,my Daddy quipped:"What they expect US to do down here;SWIM?!?" 4 months of non-stop sump-pumping alleviated that problem though.

Gm building is the tallest building in Detroit but this Hudson building will be taller

Yes, I heard the identical thing, which personally to me made absolutely no sense whatsoever, why should GM have a stranglehold over what bedrock does. Bedrock very purposely marked this to be the tallest building in the city, and then very oddly cut it to be 60 feet under the RenCen in height , totally ridiculous and a major opportunity lost for bragging rights and going forward. Gilbert and Bedrock are generally way too smart to not have noticed this, something went on behind the scenes, which most will never know, it’s just so disappointing to so many people that we know here, because they were all looking forward to it being the tallest building. Now they have literally blown it, I’m sure it will be a beautiful building, but the height factor, along with their own marketing of this, and then turning around and went in the opposite direction just makes no sense to anyone. Already even on this comment section, you can see how disappointed people are in that determination, very silly decision.

@@doughboy1001 ,Unfortunately the final rendering says 685 feet, that is shorter than the RenCen . Bedrock really made a bad decision cutting it back just 60 feet or so under, makes no sense. Terrible marketing decision right off the bat, bragging rights in that it would’ve been the tallest building in Detroit, can be in enormous for attracting customers, visitors and other types of business.

Am I wrong I thought the new height was 49 stories ?

Gm has nothing to do with this buildings height and theres way more to the story about removing the street cars. Its mostly a conspiracy that GM got rid of the street cars.

Downtown Detroit is not as attractive as is Chicago or nyc and even Detroit is still a poor city compared to others so be happy that at least there is a new project downtown.

@Dz Nutz I'm not surprised it's Detroit....they never think big....with that mediocre skyline.

I would have preferred the Monroe Block to have been built before this , That design is/was SO MUCH BETTER than this and it would have filled in that area VERY NICELY and I believe it would have been a success having being built b4 this ~ My other thought is something ( Maybe even BETTER ) would eventually be built in THIS LOCATION

🤔 I wish / HOPE he follows though with the Monroe Block HERE IN DETROIT !

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silent majority That’s probably why so many people in America are fat. Are used to elevators instead of staircases

@@penrodautorepair3170 so you want disabled people, no people in general to just use stairs to go over 100s of feet in the air? how smart

house06 I never said that. Don’t put words in my mouth. My comment was aimed at how people are lazy. You just proved me right

@@penrodautorepair3170 its literally what your saying im not putting words in your mouth

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Not at all surprising

Deserved!

Yeah build ghettos for people with no ambition Ever see the projects? America has a demographics problem

@Dz Nutz The '67 riots, corrupt politicians and racist suburbs killed Detroit and Dan Gilbert and anyone else with deep pockets won't be able to bring Detroit back from the dead.

@Dz Nutz Firstly only 5% of Americans live in trailers. So, ghettos are the majority of S holes Secondly those in trailer parks are not trying to be the dominant culture in America Thirdly trailer parks are not responsible for 62% of all USA murders. Ghettos and Barios are responsible. Lastly Diversity ruined Detroit and every other major city in America. cough cough covid riots looting shootings arson.

@Dz Nutz LiES and you fking know it FBI web page says you AFOS

@Dz Nutz Your rant accomplished nothing but maintain perception that Detroit remains in denial.

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Idiot passive aggressive. Comments were largely about Detroit has now lost having a signature building... Yah u don't need one... And Detroit will remain down indefinitely. NY, Chi, LAS, Seattle, SF... and more... all have added Signature buildings... They bring excitement and sense of optimism...

If the people of this state remained focused on lifting up its most populous city instead of fleeing for the suburbs to escape from the fear of living near BLACK People taking business/JOBS wealth/tax base and political power with them and more recently most of any attractions that brought people here ( examples ) state fair , home and garden show , Circus b4 it’s complete demise and now with this other auto show out in Oakland county the last couple years while this one was put on ice until this year ( I’m assuming that will affect the flow of people coming to Detroits ) with the help of the State and Federal Government building express ways and sewerage systems leading out of this place making the exodus easier while tearing up and disrupting what had been successful Black areas of the city and now TROLLS want to come on these sites making racist statements and pretend there kind had nothing to do with why this city has come to the state it’s in today

Nobody cares about building the tallest building. The city doesn’t need to build any eye sore skyscrapers, there needs to be Detroit culture and soul in our architecture and that doesn’t call for some garbage uninspiring sky scraper.

@@Jonathan-cz4ky , I have to disagree with you totally on that one, as a downtown resident and knowing hundreds of people who live here, everyone of us were extremely disappointed he didn’t go the extra 50 to 60 feet and make it the tallest, after all of the bragging rights and symbolism that that small difference in height would’ve made. Never make sense to any of us, we most definitely want to see it to be the tallest building. It’s like running a 26 mile marathon and stopping at mile 25.

@@manbtm1 I think the reason why you’re disappointed is a problem with the mentality of the people. Why do you need tall skyscrapers to brag about your city?

@@Jonathan-cz4ky , hey Jonathan, I think you’re very correct in saying it’s the mentality of people, and most admittedly myself also, and just about everyone I know, but a large iconic building with bragging rights, tends to be a symbol of success for a city and attraction. It’s a visual thing, also, in this particular case, it was marketed as such in a major fashion to the public. They were major announcements, consistent publicity releases, and of course Dan Gilbert and his respected supervisors themselves, constantly telling Detroit this is what they were going to do, and it was going to be a major symbol for the city of Detroit moving forward this century, which, I think, was a major mistake in the first place, hindsight is 2020, but they would’ve been wise to present this beautiful project in a different manner. People in Detroit want to see the city move forward, and an iconic symbol, particularly one that sticks out more than anything else , tends to provide that. I know it may sound irrational to some, and to each their own, It’s kind of funny, I was walking down Woodward the other day, and two people who I did not know were in front of me, we were across the street from it , in front of the Nike store, and sure enough, one said to the other one, “looks like it’s going to be nice but it’s not going to be the tallest building anymore” , and the other replied “that’s too bad.”. It’s a psychological thing, now take the same situation, and the one person would have said that” this is going to be the tallest building in Detroit, and I guarantee you the other person would have said “that’s great can’t wait” . It’s just the way many human minds perceive things I guess. I’m sure either way it’s going to be a beautiful building, and we just need to be happy about that. Mr. Gilbert at a symposium late last year, and I believe it’s on KZfaq here, was being interviewed about the building project, and oddly enough said it was going to be the tallest building in Detroit and 70 or 80 stories, which had more than a few people scratching their heads again, seeing as they announced the reduced height easily six months earlier. Maybe he just forgot. Either way he and his company need to be congratulated for all of their very hard work with Detroit, without them, we would be in big trouble.

@@manbtm1 I totally agree!

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