My Detroit Journal

Wayne State University  approved the $65 million  Hilberry Gateway project in 2018, a  renovation of the Hilberry Theatre  (with the 350-seat Gretchen Valade Jazz Center and 110-seat Jazz Underground), development of a new venue (with a 550-seat main theatre and a 150 to 225-seat Studio Theatre) and outdoor performance and reception space between the two buildings. The Gateway will be the performance home for the Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance and the Department of Music. Initial site work for the project included  moving the historic Mackenzie House , built in 1895, to a former parking lot at 2nd and Forest in 2019. Opening is set for  late 2022/2023 . Sources: DBusiness, Wayne State University, Crain's Detroit Business, Detroit Free Press     Now that's a crane!   May18, 2021           July 6, 2021 July 7, 2022 March 5, 2023  

Koucar Management LLC and Holdwick Land Development LLC are co-developing the $50 million downtown  Cambria Hotel project , which includes 158 rooms in a new, modular design building, as well as the restoration of the Albert Kahn-designed  Walker-Roehrig Building . Five Iron Golf will lease 24,000 square feet with golf simulator bays, bowling, a bar and other activities. EOTech Gear Store will bring outdoor equipment retail and a firearm simulator to another 8,000 square feet. Developers  broke ground  in 2019, and after an initial target completion date of 2020, the hotel is  set to open  in late 2022. Sources: Koucar, Historic Detroit, Crain's Detroit Business, Curbed Detroit      October 28, 2019 Looking East from 3rd St.           August 15, 2020 Looking Northeast from Lafayette          A New Section Added to the Existing Building         September 14, 2020 New Large...

Nearing completion  Looking northwest from Larned 5/16/21

Bedrock is redeveloping the  Hudson’s site  on Woodward Avenue in downtown Detroit. They broke ground in 2017 on what was then proposed as a  $1 billion mixed-use development . It has since faced delays and design changes, but completion is expected in 2024, Bedrock said in early 2022. The skyscraper is expected to be about 685 feet tall and the plan calls for 1.5 million square feet of hotel, office, dining, retail, residential, event and parking space, as well as a plaza. The site was home to the former Hudson’s department store, which initially opened in 1891 and was for a time the  tallest department store in the world . It closed to the public in 1983 and was imploded in 1998. Sources: Bedrock, Detroit News, Detroit Historical Society It has been a long time coming but construction is finally underway.        February 3, 2021                                 ...

  4/10/21 - I believe this is going to be the new Wayne State Theater but there is on information no their website. This is looking north onCass Ave.       I'm not sure what this structure is. It is just north of I-94 on Anthony Wayne Drive.     And near that structure will be a new overpass that empties onto Anthony Wayne Drive. This is looking north towards New Center Area.     And the new hockey arena is nearing completion. Mystery solved. It is actually a new bridge that they are going to install over I-94 on Sunday, July 10th. Amazing!     

  On July 17, 2018 Construction began on the Gordie Howe International Bridge between Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario   Canadian website link: https://www.gordiehoweinternationalbridge.com/en/gallery   3/23/21 - Work being done along I-75 for the approaches.     3/23/21 - Looking towards the river, south of Fort St.     4/7/21 - Beginning of the first towers. Looking towards the river.     4/7/21 - Footings for the approaches. Looking northeast.      

  The new TCF Bank Building right across the street from Central United Methodist Church 12/1/2020    1/11/2021   2/23/2021   3/30/2021       5/13/2021      6/6/2021 3/11/22 Believe it or not Huntington Bank bought TCF so the new bank will have a different name.