  Sharmaal Member Username: Sharmaal Post Number: 1232 Registered: 09-2004 |
Engineers are on site. They are assessing the ground under the building to see if it will support another structure. My guess, they say it won't and Olympia has an excuse to take the whole thing down (not just the facade) | ||
Rb336 Member Username: Rb336 Post Number: 3175 Registered: 02-2007 |
Do you know what firm? | ||
Downtown_remix Member Username: Downtown_remix Post Number: 522 Registered: 03-2007 |
lol, the facade is the only section intended to remain. the office section is coming out to be rebuilt | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 5558 Registered: 08-2004 |
They're probably just doing some routine work. If the block can hold a 18 story Kales Building, a (now gone) 7 story Hurley Hospital, a 20+ story Michigan Mutual Building, and a 14 story apartment tower (former shoe store at Woodward)... then I don't see any problem with rebuilding a 5 story Fine Arts Building. | ||
Rjlj Member Username: Rjlj Post Number: 411 Registered: 11-2003 |
You are an Engineer Gistok? | ||
Detroit_area_dork Member Username: Detroit_area_dork Post Number: 5 Registered: 08-2007 |
I hope they don't tear down the theater connected to it. The porting of the building facing grand circus park is probably beyond hope. http://www.forgottendetroit.co m/adams/44.htm | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 5560 Registered: 08-2004 |
No Rjlj. I am not an engineer. But anyone with half a brain knows that a site that can hold a 5 story building for nearly a century, is likely suitable for holding another 5 story building. | ||
Sciencefair Member Username: Sciencefair Post Number: 6 Registered: 10-2007 |
As of this time last year, the plan was to have the Adams Theater gone as well, but I've been out of the loop since. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 5565 Registered: 08-2004 |
Actually Sciencefair, the auditorium portion of the Adams Theatre was never mentioned in any of the media articles relating to the Fine Arts Building reconstruction. Since the Adams was an "alley jumper", any plans to leave the Adams alone would require the removal of the skyway above the alley (balcony seating), as well as the basement tunnel walkway below the alley (orchestra seating), and sealing off the auditorium. | ||
Sciencefair Member Username: Sciencefair Post Number: 7 Registered: 10-2007 |
I didn't say anything about the media. Perhaps I've said too much. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 5569 Registered: 08-2004 |
LOL... that comment was priceless Sciencefair...  The Adams was always the least attractive of the downtown movie palaces... in fact one can hardly use the term "palace" to describe it. It was very plain looking with very minimal ornate plasterwork. And most of that was removed in a modernization many decades ago. To me the nicest part of the complex was always the facade. I remember going to the restaurant "ON STAGE" in the Fine Arts Building in the early 1990's. Too bad it was 15 years ahead of its' time... |
