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New renderings released of Hudson's Site development in downtown Detroit

2022-05-16T19:44:00-04:00

New renderings were released today of one of the city's most visible and notable developments. While the proposed 685-foot tower at the Hudson's site gets the most attention, the office building next door will be an active space with many places for the public to visit. Bedrock unveiled a look inside the 220-foot office building, with office, event, and dining space.

A revitalization of the historic Hudson’s Department Store site in downtown Detroit, the project will bring 1.5 million square feet of office, retail, event, residential, and hotel space to the area. The development’s design is being led by SHoP Architects and Detroit-based Hamilton Anderson, with Pophouse in charge of designing the interiors of the office building.

Image courtesy of SHoP Architects

The retail space will be positioned at ground level of the office building, and the second and third floors will host the 126,000-square-foot event space, with a capacity of 2,500 people. The top of the building will feature an indoor/outdoor dining space. The office space will span 400,000 square feet.

Image courtesy of SHoP Architects

As reported by Urbanize Detroit, the office building component of the development has topped out, and the under-construction tower has surpassed 200 feet with a topping-out ceremony expected next year. The development is slated for completion in 2024.

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Detroit's under-construction Hudson's Site skyscraper may get quite a bit taller than 800 feet

2018-10-08T13:45:00-04:00

Billionaire mortgage mogul and real estate maven Dan Gilbert's skyscraper slated for downtown Detroit may grow by more than 100 feet to 912 feet tall, Crain's has learned. While the final height has not yet been determined, Joe Guziewicz, vice president of construction for Gilbert's Bedrock LLC, confirmed that it will be taller than the 800 feet that was previously announced as the company looks to get "the most flexibility for how we use it and how we program it."

Designed by Hamilton Anderson Associates and SHoP Architects, the massive Hudson's Site mixed-use development broke ground in 2017 and occupies the long-vacant site of the iconic J.L. Hudson's department store in downtown Detroit—in its heydays, the world's tallest department store but ultimately demolished in 1998 after a long economic decline.

Image: SHoP Architects PC, courtesy of Bedrock.

From the Ashes, Detroit continues to rise.

2017-12-18T11:30:00-05:00

An 800-foot-tall centerpiece is coming to Detroit's resurgent downtown as the city continues to build momentum about three years after exiting the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Detroit continues its steep climb back to normalcy and growth. As one of America's hardest-hit areas by the Great Recession, Detroit unemployment was running nearly three times as high as the national average in 2009 at a staggering 28 percent — and the city was bleeding population, losing inhabitants every year for the last six years.

Through all this, Detroit has powered back and hinted its potential as a location of a modern-day renaissance allowing for unhindered creativity and possibilities. Returning to Detroit's legacy of a booming urban center, altogether, the projected projects of downtown look to bring up to 24,000+ jobs to the region with companies such as Microsoft and Ally Financial looking to make a move to Downtown Detroit.