  Tigersfan9 Member Username: Tigersfan9 Post Number: 18 Registered: 03-2005 Posted From: 24.221.70.72 |
Former Motown HQ to be razed By BILL MCGRAW FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER More than 30 years after Motown Records left its hometown for Los Angeles, one of the legendary company’s former headquarters has a date with the wrecking ball. Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said Thursday the work is scheduled to start this week on the 10-story Motown building on the northwest corner of Woodward and the Fisher Freeway downtown. Kilpatrick says the work will proceed so quickly that the site will be used for a parking lot during the Super Bowl. After that, the city will market it to developers. The building is owned, Kilpatrick said, by a California-based company in which Motown founder Berry Gordy has an interest. Gordy founded the company in 1959 in a house on West Grand Boulevard where the Motown Museum stands today. He moved his offices into the 10-story Woodward building in the late 1960s. The company moved to Los Angeles in 1972, a decision Gordy has since said he regretted. In recent years, talk has surfaced regularly of putting an expanded Motown museum onto the Woodward site, but nothing has come of it. Kilpatrick said Gordy still wants to establish a museum there. http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .dll/article?AID=/20060112/NEW S11/60112006 | ||
Susanarosa Member Username: Susanarosa Post Number: 660 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 208.39.170.90 |
Well, at least he's honest about it... | ||
Ndavies Member Username: Ndavies Post Number: 1542 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 129.9.163.234 |
Old news https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/5/63088.html?1137096353 | ||
Lmichigan Member Username: Lmichigan Post Number: 2996 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 67.172.95.197 |
Of course it is, but now it's confirmed by a major newspaper. There is no more doubt now for anyone that had doubts before. | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 5343 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 208.27.111.125 |
I'm on the fence. I think it might be spared. | ||
Ndavies Member Username: Ndavies Post Number: 1543 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 129.9.163.234 |
The article was already posted in the other thread. No point in starting a new thread. | ||
Matt_the_deuce Member Username: Matt_the_deuce Post Number: 437 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.27.204 |
I'm filled with doubt - yet steadfastly hopefull. | ||
Susanarosa Member Username: Susanarosa Post Number: 661 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 208.39.170.90 |
Come NDavies, at least give us some credit for spelling everything right... | ||
Dabirch Member Username: Dabirch Post Number: 1311 Registered: 06-2004 Posted From: 208.44.117.10 |
actually, that's Ndavies... And you missed the "on" -- unless you are spurring him to action | ||
Damon Member Username: Damon Post Number: 641 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 172.139.25.127 |
It sure woulda been nice to have a completed sparkling new MOTOWN CENTER in time for SBXL. | ||
Susanarosa Member Username: Susanarosa Post Number: 662 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 208.39.170.90 |
Oh well, I guess I lost all grammatical credibility now... however shall I recover? | ||
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 6422 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 198.208.251.24 |
I heard that they are considering putting a Cheesecake Factory with a drive thru Taco Bell at the site. | ||
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin Post Number: 2299 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.202.227.12 |
NO Jt1 all thats goin on the mega structure to built on the Hudson's block... lol | ||
Dabirch Member Username: Dabirch Post Number: 1314 Registered: 06-2004 Posted From: 208.44.117.10 |
Cocktail tonight, Ms. Susanarosa? | ||
Susanarosa Member Username: Susanarosa Post Number: 663 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 208.39.170.90 |
Unfortunately if I do, it won't be until later... | ||
Dabirch Member Username: Dabirch Post Number: 1315 Registered: 06-2004 Posted From: 208.44.117.10 |
I'll be there until 7:30 or so. | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 9750 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 64.118.137.228 |
Has this building been hugged? I was under the impression a gathering is called for buildings to be demo'd and they are hugged. | ||
Bibs Member Username: Bibs Post Number: 437 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 205.188.116.201 |
Let me see. 100 dollar a day for parking spot. The site probably has 100 parking spots x 100 dollars is 10,000 dollars time three nights equals 30,000 dollars. Does that equal the annual tax bill? | ||
Valkyrias Member Username: Valkyrias Post Number: 186 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 69.47.103.87 |
that site has more than 100 spots...i may be wrong on this, but i thought the vacant area north of there is a part of it...or is at least owned by the same entity. anyone know for sure? even if it's not, those few blocks (if it is all used for parking), at that price, could pull in close to 5 times that amount. all the more reason to just leave the building if you ask me, and do something creative with it for the suberbowl. | ||
Royce Member Username: Royce Post Number: 1400 Registered: 07-2004 Posted From: 69.212.58.46 |
Valkyrias, in Detroit, creativity loses out to making a fast buck every time. | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 657 Registered: 01-2004 Posted From: 4.229.27.210 |
ADMIN: Probably time to join all the Motown/Donovan/Sanders threads into one, because you know there will be even more data are they are torn down. Just a thought. | ||
Valkyrias Member Username: Valkyrias Post Number: 188 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 69.47.103.87 |
royce...i did actually want to add at the end of my statement, "not that it will ever happen..." but i thought it was too negative. |
