Detroit, MI
Last of giant glass panels installed at Hudson’s Detroit project
Detroit’s J.L. Hudson Building: From historic landmark to modern skyscraper
Explore the transformation of Detroit’s iconic J.L. Hudson building from its origins in 1911 as the world’s tallest department store to its dramatic implosion in 1998, and finally to the rise of a new skyscraper in 2024 that revitalizes the city’s skyline.
The final glass panel was installed on the Hudson’s Detroit tower exterior, the major downtown construction project, marking “the completion of the façade of the landmark development,” officials announced Tuesday.
Work is ongoing on the 1.5-million-square-foot development, according to its developer, Bedrock Detroit.
The announcement is perhaps part of Bedrock’s promise to make news “in the near future,” after Downtown Development Authority officials questioned why the development has taken so long to finish the project.
The construction of the new development also has raised questions about what to do about Detroit’s Renaissance Center, which opened in 1976 and was aimed at revitalizing downtown Detroit, but has been described as “almost vacant.”
Bedrock, Dan Gilbert’s real estate firm, said during a late February development board meeting it hoped to finish the first of its two new side-by-side buildings at the Hudson’s site in Detroit by this spring, then the second one before year’s end.
The project is set to house hotel rooms and condos, both of which will be branded under the name EDITION — a luxury boutique partnership between Ian Schrager and Marriott International.
The timeline Bedrock outlined seemed sufficient for the development board to grant a one-year extension to Bedrock’s Dec. 31, 2024, development agreement deadline for achieving “substantial completion” of the project.
The new deadline is Dec. 31 of this year.
General Motors, which has long occupied the RenCen, is leasing four floors in one of the project’s buildings and is expected to move in by late 2025 or early 2026.
In a separate Tuesday announcement, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said designating the RenCen as a “historic office building,” which some have urged, “would have killed any realistic hope of redevelopment.”
He was speaking about City Council members overwhelmingly voting 8-1 to deny the historic review on Tuesday.
The mayor added the city “can now move forward to explore all alternatives and develop the best solution for our city’s future.”
The Hudson project — a $1.4 billion development — is expected to include shops on the ground floor, with conference and events space directly above them, various offices, and a rooftop bar and restaurant.
Bedrock said the final glass panel, which ranges from 11 to 16 feet tall and weighs up to 2,200 pounds, was installed on the 47th floor of the tower. It took about 100,000 hours to install all the glass panels, and the tower’s façade now includes a total of 4,677 of them.
Contact Frank Witsil: 313-222-5022 or fwitsil@freepress.com.
Detroit Tigers blow lead, lose to Kansas City Royals on walk-off hit.
The Tigers lost, 4-3, to the Royals on Kyle Isbel’s walk-off single in the ninth inning.
Kansas City, Mo. — The losing streak is now five games. The road record is now an MLB-worst 6-16.
The Kansas City Royals prolonged the Tigers’ misery Saturday night with a relatively breezy 5-1 win at Kauffman Stadium.
Oh, and the Tigers might’ve lost another player in the process.
Right fielder Kerry Carpenter left the game in the third inning. He banged his left shoulder running into the side wall chasing Bobby Witt Jr.’s first-inning, two-run, inside-the-park home run.
Witt, a right-handed hitter, sliced a drive inside the bag at first. Carpenter chased it toward the side wall, but the ball caromed past him. Witt never stopped running.
Carpenter stayed in the game and even rolled an infield single in the second inning. But he was replaced by Wenceel Perez when the Royals came to bat in the third inning.
BOX SCORE: Royals 5, Tigers 1
He was being evaluated during the game.
The two-run homer by Witt ended up being more than the Tigers’ sputtering offense could overcome. But, for good measure, Michael Massey added a three-run home run off Ty Madden in the fourth inning.
Madden ended up being one of the few bright spots in the game for the Tigers. He pitched six innings and allowed just one other hit. He set down the last 11 hitters he faced.
He entered in the third inning after opener Burch Smith and lefty Tyler Holton worked one time through the Royals’ batting order.
Holton made a nifty escape in the first inning. With runners at second and third and one out, and two runs already in, Jac Caglianone hit a hard ground ball to second baseman Zach McKinstry, who was playing in on the grass.
McKinstry got the out at first. The runner at second, Carter Jensen, mistakenly broke for third where Vinnie Pasquantino was holding.
Spencer Torkelson threw to shortstop Kevin McGonigle who threw to catcher Jake Rogers once Pasquantino broke for home — your basic 4-3-6-2 double-play.
Not much else went the Tigers’ way.
Royals right-hander Michael Wacha snuffed out the few scoring opportunities the Tigers mustered.
He worked around an error and a McKinstry stolen base in the third innings. He got Jake Rogers to pop to shallow right field with runners at first and third and one out and then got Matt Vierling to ground out with the bases loaded in the fifth.
Wacha allowed two hits in seven innings. The Tigers put 18 balls in play against him with a soft average exit velocity of 84.4 mph.
The Tigers broke through in the eighth against lefty reliever Matt Strahm. And it was left-handed hitters who did the dirty work. Riley Greene, who extended his career-high on-base streak to 20 games, doubled home McGonigle.
This season is a long way from over but Tigers, 18-22, are in serious need a course correction.
Chris.McCosky@detroitnews.com
@cmccosky
4Warn Weather – SATURDAY: Mostly cloudy skies. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. A few storms could be strong with gusty winds and hail. High: 71.
SATURDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy skies, becoming partly cloudy skies late. Low: 45.
SUNDAY (MOTHER’S DAY): Mix of sunshine and clouds, cooler temperatures. High: 61.
SUNDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy skies. Another chilly night. Low: 41.
MONDAY: Mostly sunny skies, remaining chilly. High: 58.
After a beautiful end to the week on Friday with sunshine and a little cloud cover, with warmer temperatures moving into the region as well, some of us are waking up to some patchy dense fog on Saturday morning. Some places south of M-59 are seeing reduced visibilities down to around a mile. If you do run into some patchy dense fog, be sure to use your low beams.
That warming trend continues into the start of the weekend on Saturday, but it also brings a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Another cold front will work through the region by Saturday afternoon and early Saturday evening and that will bring our thunderstorm chance. High temperature is warming into low 70s by Saturday afternoon.
The Storm Prediction Center has placed most of the region under a Marginal Risk (1 out of 5) on our severe weather scale for the start of the weekend. Gusty winds and hail are the primary threats as we work through the start of the weekend, but this will not be a widespread threat for severe thunderstorms.
Behind that cold front for the end of the weekend on Sunday, we will keep a mixture of sunshine and clouds into the forecast. High temperatures running about 10 to 15° cooler to end the weekend. Expect high to warm into the upper 50s to lower 60s by Sunday afternoon.
Drier weather sticks around for the start of next week, before another chance of rain moves into the region by the time we get to Tuesday. The cooler-than-average temperatures will continue into the start of next week as well. Expect high temperatures to remain in the 50s for Monday and Tuesday.
Temperature start to warm up by the middle of next week, and Drier weather moves back in by Wednesday behind another cold front moving into the region. Expect high temperatures into the lower 60s on Wednesday to warm into the upper 60s by the time we get to Thursday. Above average temperatures move back into the region as we look ahead into the end of the week, expect high temperatures back into the lower 70s by the time we get to Friday.
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