  Detroitbill Member Username: Detroitbill Post Number: 315 Registered: 09-2006 |
Does anyone know about the progress of this building ? You see construction lights on but I had thought the project was supposed to be completed months ago? I thought the floors were sold out.. | ||
Mind_field Member Username: Mind_field Post Number: 776 Registered: 10-2003 |
Yeah, and when is the exterior lighting going to illuminate the facade? I'm pretty sure I've seen it dark at night when I have walked past. | ||
Spiritofdetroit Member Username: Spiritofdetroit Post Number: 570 Registered: 11-2006 |
it has been very disappointing to see the progress on this building at least visibly stall the last number of months | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 1413 Registered: 04-2006 |
My daily walk takes me by this building. I've seen lots of activity there all year. On friday I saw about a half dozen or so work men in front of the building having lunch. Have patience, its a large old building, its going to need a lot of work. I'm just glad it don't reek like a sewer any longer, thats what Hudson's smelled like during its last years. | ||
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 10089 Registered: 10-2003 |
Most of the work done on places like this isn't immediately visible. | ||
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13 Post Number: 2241 Registered: 10-2003 |
Many delays are no fault of the owners. There's typically a lot of bureaucratic red tape with projects like that. I'm sure that vandalism/theft is a problem during construction, too. | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 10055 Registered: 12-2003 |
Not the developer's fault. Delays caused in part by scrappers who stole the motors for the elevators...keeping them from getting heavy stuff to the upper floors. Lotsa frustration...seems par for the building industry, especially in Detroit. | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 4124 Registered: 10-2003 |
http://www.detroityes.com/news /070830/601pics/102.htm Look in the front door^ for yourself. It is happening. As mentioned, delays beyond control of the partners and the theft of the elevator engine by copper scrappers have set them back. No one wants it done more than they do. | ||
Xd_brklyn Member Username: Xd_brklyn Post Number: 301 Registered: 10-2003 |
Thanks for the updates. Was wondering about the progress of the Vinton. Was sorry to hear the building got hit by scrappers awhile back. Glad progress continues. (Message edited by xD_brklyn on September 10, 2007) | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 11675 Registered: 10-2003 |
Perhaps Ernie Harwell should join their team.  | ||
Burnsie Member Username: Burnsie Post Number: 1145 Registered: 11-2003 |
Detroitplanner wrote that Hudson's smelled like a sewer...I remember that smell very well. It wasn't as offensive as a sewer, though...more of a simple damp smell: so many parts of the building had gotten wet or damp, and even after drying out the smell lingered. | ||
Rsa Member Username: Rsa Post Number: 1262 Registered: 10-2003 |
many abandoned buildings have that very smell. i call it nostalgia | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 10066 Registered: 12-2003 |
Not just that...after time, all of their sewer traps would most certainly dry up...allowing sewer gasses to seep into the sealed building. | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 1662 Registered: 10-2006 |
Are each of the units in the Vinton building doing their own thing on their own floor? That would certainly take a bit of time longer as opposed to making every unit on every floor exactly the same. | ||
Llyn Member Username: Llyn Post Number: 1861 Registered: 06-2004 |
Yes. |
