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Velma
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Post Number: 2792
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Posted From: 68.78.185.190
Posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - 11:59 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

There are some guys inside scraping the paint off the windows. So who knows something?
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Ndavies
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Posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - 12:02 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Velma hasn't been paying attention.

https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/5/61509.html?1134407349
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Wilus1mj
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Posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - 12:14 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

My view from my Parking spot for Tigers Games will never be the same....maybe soon it will become a bigger parking lot.
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Velma
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Posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - 12:18 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I see a lot of words on the other thread, but no one appears to be saying much of anything. ;-)
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Mind_field
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Posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - 3:48 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Probably clean up for the super bowl. I'd be really surprised if this building was being prepped for renovation. Hopefully, this is a result of stepped up enforcement of blight ordinances.
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Dnvn522
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Posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - 4:11 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I personally think it looks better with the painted windows.
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Gistok
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Posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - 6:00 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Like I mentioned on the Fine Arts/Adams Theatre thread.... it will be difficult for Ilitch to show off his entertainment empire to Superbowl millionaires/billionaires if it is interspersed with his "untouched" slumlord collection.
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Fnemecek
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Posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - 6:11 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

For those Forumers who always ask for pics...

For those forumers who always ask for pics...
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Gistok
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Posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - 6:15 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

When they remodeled the UA back in the 30's or 40's, they took off the old ornate veneer of bricks/terra cotta, and put up a "modern" veneer. It is that slipshod modern veneer that has been peeling away for the last 25 years.
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Bvos
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Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 4:00 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Have to agree that those windows were great to look at. It had to be one of the largest renegade public artworks on an abandoned building in the world (another Cool Cities marketing claim Detroit can have). They should have taken the windows out and saved the artwork instead of scraping it off. But off course that would require you to want to save the building and actually care about art...
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Psip
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Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 4:05 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

At least they are not removing the windows. That is their normal modus operendi.
Maybe there is hope for the building.
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623kraw
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Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 5:04 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

That's one hell of lot of scraping...
UA Office Bldg
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Broken_main
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Post Number: 495
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Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 7:16 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Just looking at this building has me thinking..."what a grand building!!"

What would you do with this building if it were given to you???

(Message edited by broken_main on December 15, 2005)
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Barnesfoto
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Post Number: 1567
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Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 9:30 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I would buy a corn stove or two....
I liked the painted windows too. I suspect that the ambitious person who painted them will be back...
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623kraw
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Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 9:38 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

What else? Leave the painted windows in and turn it into lofts.
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Dnvn522
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Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 9:45 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"What would you do with this building if it were given to you???"

Nothing, since I don't have any money. But if I had $100 million, I'd renovate it.
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Gravitymachine
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Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 11:25 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

i would occupy the top two floors. every thing below would be stripped to the bare structure....it would look so cool
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Northend
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Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 11:27 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

probably implode it and build a four-story parking structure :-)
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Dnvn522
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Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 11:32 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

A surface lot would look nicer. ;)
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Northend
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Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 11:34 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

let me check w/ M. Ilitch see what he thinks
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Crew
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Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 11:35 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Northend, what do you have against gravel?
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Dnvn522
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Post Number: 75
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Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 11:35 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I'm sure he'd agree with me!
LOL

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