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This was total f**king BS I've never seen such blatant homecooking 34 FT's to 10. I know B10 refs are know for favoring the home team, but this was ridiculous

Shouldn't the arrow for Campus Martius be pointing to the right?

The website for Nine on Third (Third and Canfield) is now up and from the rendering this going really nice project http://www.nineonthird.com

The two blocks bounded by Woodbridge, Riopelle, Atwater and Orleans-which includeds that lot- are part of the land the city cleared and marketed lasted year. For the most part the demolished buildings weren't as nice compared the ones in third pic

The long overdue Guardian lighting looks great saw it in person for first time earlier this week it really brings out the buildings details.

Most of the major Super Bowl work is finshed their are some vacant buildings that got grants for ground floor improvements which are still being worked on

There isn't much talk about outside the garage they've been building for the past year. According to Model D they've be taking resevations I suspect they'll really go on sale once the garage is complete in January http://modeldmedia.com/developmentnews/1001woodward.aspx

Will you two please chill out, you obviously know nothing about politics, cause bills like this get introduced all the time that's why you have gems likes this: HB 5249 9/29/2005 Hoogendyk Highways; name; portion of M-10 in Wayne county; rename the "Ronald Wilson Reagan Memorial Highway I can tell you right now it'll be a cold day in hell before Reagan gets anything after him in the city and the same can be said for the GOP in Lansing naming anything after Coleman. This is just good campaign lit filler Hoodgendyk can now claim he introduced bill for a Regan highway. Likewise, I'm sure Lemmons will mention the "Young Freeway" bill. Otherwise these are destined for a slow death

Here's an update to another Brush Park project Crystal Lofts to add new life to a grand ballroom Built in 1919, the building known as the Crystal Ballroom

How could you have not seen that building before it's kinda hard to miss a 33 story empty hotel?

Love the new exterior lighting. Now all we need is for Comerica to get their act together

I disagee Woodward's width is fine new development and sidewalk streetscaping will do more enhance the street. No one would say Champ Elys

I have to say Madison Building looks very good a huge improvement over the 60's hack job they did to the facade. The facade will remain white this is latest rendering

That new sculplture looks pretty cool and once they put the Macomb statue back Washington will regain some of it's old grandeur

How's the former Madison Theater coming along these days? It's been awhile since I've been downtown so the last I saw it they had only bricked up the first floor

I like them they fit in nicely with the North Corktown neighborhood. The GCDC has done pretty good job making affordable housing attractive Model D did story on them this week http://www.modeldmedia.com/features/northcktwn.aspx

Great pic the Kales looking amazing with the new lighting

No the spire isn't structural.

So that what happned to this project .I wonder if they got far enough into the project to come out with an actual design? Anyway scrapping this project will also be good for the Statler site, it'll be easier to market the site without competetion from another highrise project in the area.

Another loft project on the horizon are Mid-Med Lofts on E Canfield in the former Melrose Hotel. The website is still incomplete,but provides a great rendering. http://www.midmedlofts.com I found a picture of it on DetroitPix

It is poor planning but the project has to be put in the context of the time it was built. Remember this project which was supposed to start in 1997 was pretty revolutionary at the time, this was the first of the major residental projects downtown. So not surprisingly conisdering the "risk" they weren't very innovative. Compare that the The Ellington the first truly urban new contruction which I think is setting the trend towards more urban design. Even Crosswinds getting the right idea now check out the design for the Garden Lofts in Hamilton Anderson's projects section http://www.hamilton-anderson.com

It should they were both designed by Minoru Yakasami

The system is called site-value taxation where the city taxes the land and not the building. The city can base it value off any number factors for instance becuase of the Park Ave Bldgs access public unitles, and entertainment options etc I looked up the Charlevoix Bldg and it has the same Troy P.O Box as the Park Ave Bldg it's listed to a R Sachs. As of 2002 the building has a cash value 354,600 and 236,300 but the taxable values are only 74,200 and 23,900. That means he pays around 5,300/yr for the PA and 1,700/yr on the Charlevoix. So this guy is getting off pretty cheap, his land is worth far more than the taxable value. Let just say the cash value=land value his taxes would be 25,200/yr and 16,800/yr I guarantee you Sachs would crap a brick if a bill like that came in the mail. These give a good explanation of the system http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/gi...y_taxation.html http://www.urbantools.net/kunstler.htm

It a shame a about the Park Ave Bldg hopefully Admistrative Hearings is dragging them to court, I found the owner on city assesors site it's some company called Triangle Mgt out of Troy. The city ought to find a way to tax people like this what they're selling the building for, I think Philly does something like this. They and other speculators might think twice about price gouging if it came with a tax bill.

Is there anything in the works for the Park Ave Bldg? I believe they're both owned by the guy who owns the Iodent bldg