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New Boutique Hotel Coming Soon to Downtown

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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...

Meijer Rivertown Market

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Nearing completion  Looking northwest from Larned 5/16/21

The Hudsons Site

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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                                 ...

Wayne State University Construction

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  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!     

The Gordie Howe International Bridge

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  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.      

TCF Bank is Coming to Town

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  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.