Detroit Off Topic

[dtown]

I saw a pic of the hudsons underground garage, and i was wondering if anything can/ will be built on top of it.

thanks in advance.

[wolverine]

A 10-15 story (commercial building), up to 18 residential; varied height across the existing structure due to steel orientations and thicknesses.

[dtown]

Ok, thanks.

also, i was wondering, are those vents all over the "lid" of the garage?

if so, how would they vent out exaust if a building was on top of it?

[RustTown]

dtown, didn't you read my post in the Book Tower, thread? I posted all of the information about the garage. In fact, I'm pretty sure you posted in that thread after my post.

BTW, there are hundreds of underground garages around the country, so air circulation shouldn't be a problem. They are engineered with all of those things in mind, or they couldn't be built due to safety issues.

Edited January 2, 2007 by Lmichigan

[dtown]

Haha, duh. Yeah, i read it, but completly forgot about it until now.

[statedude3]

This afternoon I noticed the shorter building next to the Vinton bldg had a new fancy lighting scheme on the front of it and what looked like renovations happening on the upper floors. Does anyone know what is going on here? I could not tell if it was connected on the inside with the vinton or not, but it was clear that construction was taking place.

[hudkina]

Has anyone noticed that Brush and John R through Brush Park have been converted to two way traffic?

[dtown]

Why were they converted? Just the drop in traffic over the years, id assume?

[RustTown]

Probably, but the less one-way streets the better, IMO, especially in the neighborhoods.

[dtown]

I agree with you on that.

[hudkina]

There was no point in keeping them one-way as most people coming into and leaving downtown either use the highways or Woodward. Besides Brush is no longer a through street.

[dtown]

Dodge the Lodge II

http://www.michigan.gov/mdot/0,1607,7-151-...4528---,00.html

MDOT to reconstruct 14 miles of the Lodge Freeway between Jefferson Ave and Lahser Rd

Not sure if this has been posted before or not, but i thought i would post it incase it hasnt.

[Allan]

Dodge the Lodge is a huge pain for those of us who live in Detroit and work in Southfield. There is no good way to get from my house in SW Detroit to Southfield. I've been trying different routes to school for the past 2 weeks, but no matter what way I go, my commute is going from 25 minutes to 40+.

[dtown]

Sounds a lot like I-69 up here in Flint last summer. Sometimes it would get so backed up because of alll the construction that it was actually quicker to take Court St into Flint.

[hudkina]

Just take I-96 to the Southfield Freeway.

[hudkina]

It looks like Ernst & Young finally moved into their new offices near Campus Martius.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article...5/1002/BUSINESS

[Jasoncw]

That's cool. Now it's not "abandoned before anyone even moved in." Still though, any news on the other floors?

That building is ugly.

[dtown]

^ Its better than the cheese grater.

[RustTown]

I actually like the cheese grater better. At least you can't find it in the suburbs as ugly as it is. Take the spire and the slope off, and One Kennedy Square might as well be in Southfield Town Center or somewhere along Big Beaver. lol

Still, I guess its better that when E & Y moved out of Comerica Tower they didn't leave the city, altogether. But, that still means the city is playing a game of 'musical offices.' I wonder when we're ever going to see a healthy office market in the Metro again? It's not just Detroit that's hurting in terms of the office market, but the whole area.

Edited January 31, 2007 by Lmichigan

[Zissou]

I think I may prefer the Cheese Grater to One Kennedy.

[Jasoncw]

tbh, I like the cheese grader. I don't like where it is (I think it would have been better to the west a little, or maybe in midtown or new center), but I like it. I think it's one of the best goofy 60's buildings around. I think One Woodward Avenue is one of the best normal 60's buildings around, which I like quite a bit.

[ZachariahDaMan]

Who's going to Winter Blast? I plan on taking a friend there since I get off work early on the 10th.

[statedude3]

Does anyone know the history of the State Fairgrounds Colosseum? I attended the Wayne State hockey game there tonight and I was very curious about this building. I know it is currently a 5,500 seat ice rink. But what was it used for before this? Did it serve a purpose directly relating to the fair back in the day?

[MJLO]

wow it seems like the Detroit forum traffic has started picking up again. This is a good thing. Way to go Detroit.

[RustTown]

More of a rhetorical question, but what's with Detroit not having much defined (marked) street parking downtown, and no defined street parking in much of the rest of the city? I don't know why, but this always throws me off. lol You'd think a city with so much parking would be so incredibly detailed about their parking.