  Hans57 Member Username: Hans57 Post Number: 138 Registered: 05-2006 |
I wonder how long it would take nature to completely reclaim Detroit? It's half way there now. | ||
Downtownguy Member Username: Downtownguy Post Number: 21 Registered: 07-2004 |
Rsa, So it is. Thanks for pointing that out. Great photo! | ||
Ramcharger Member Username: Ramcharger Post Number: 339 Registered: 05-2006 |
New Fort Shelby to hire 300 | ||
Civilprotectionunit4346 Member Username: Civilprotectionunit4346 Post Number: 104 Registered: 06-2007 |
I really hope they don't add the doubletree or hilton name to it...It would be a shame for them to spread there logo feces all over such a great old hotel. I say they keep on the front the Fort Shelby name....but have it when you call the place that it's the Fort Shelby Double Tree Hotel. I think the Hilton name has taken quite a beating lately from the heiress whore daughter paris. I have seen work being done on the other side of the buildings...Ive seen window frames taken out and looks like more construction lighting has been put in. | ||
Irish_mafia Member Username: Irish_mafia Post Number: 929 Registered: 10-2003 |
It will have the Doubletree name on it. When you invest the money, they can call it the Civilprotectionunit4346 Fort Shelby Hotel | ||
Civilprotectionunit4346 Member Username: Civilprotectionunit4346 Post Number: 109 Registered: 06-2007 |
It was just a thought....Speaking of hotel's...has anyone ever seen or been in the hotel Yorba? A friend of mine went there just out of curiousity to see the inside of the place. From what he told me it smelled like the inside of a bathroom. | ||
Crew Member Username: Crew Post Number: 1304 Registered: 02-2004 |
Civilprotection, if that's what your bathroom smells like, it's time to hire a housekeeper cause what you're doing isn't working. | ||
Civilprotectionunit4346 Member Username: Civilprotectionunit4346 Post Number: 113 Registered: 06-2007 |
No that's what the Hotel Yorba smells like....from what my friend told me. And please let's keep this kind of at an adult level and stop trying to start an argument. And now back to the topic. I forgot to mention I saw a back hoe by the parking lot on the one side of the building. Also A few weeks back I saw a truck with a flat bed trailer with some equipment on it, I wonder what it could have been. | ||
Bobj Member Username: Bobj Post Number: 2318 Registered: 11-2003 |
I think we need to shorten civilprotectionunit4346 to CPU4346. What do you think? | ||
Civilprotectionunit4346 Member Username: Civilprotectionunit4346 Post Number: 114 Registered: 06-2007 |
I like it the way it is. Maybe I might change it down the road. | ||
Eric Member Username: Eric Post Number: 874 Registered: 11-2004 |
Just be happy that they are even keeping the Fort Shelby name at all. | ||
Bobj Member Username: Bobj Post Number: 2325 Registered: 11-2003 |
Maybe they could name it The Fort Shelby Yorba - Downtown | ||
Civilprotectionunit4346 Member Username: Civilprotectionunit4346 Post Number: 125 Registered: 06-2007 |
I got a better one---- the Stupid Spoiled Whore Hotel(im just kiddin folks) | ||
Hybridy Member Username: Hybridy Post Number: 108 Registered: 08-2006 |
national "upscale" chain i don't consider it upscale, but a cheesecake factory would do fantastical | ||
Civilprotectionunit4346 Member Username: Civilprotectionunit4346 Post Number: 126 Registered: 06-2007 |
I know let's build a starbucks right across from another starbucks...that would be an original idea???? Right???? | ||
Scs100 Member Username: Scs100 Post Number: 1189 Registered: 12-2006 |
^^ Go to Boston and you will see that that idea has already gone into practice. | ||
Civilprotectionunit4346 Member Username: Civilprotectionunit4346 Post Number: 127 Registered: 06-2007 |
LOL...I I believe it....Ohh I got that from comedian Luis Black. | ||
French777 Member Username: French777 Post Number: 186 Registered: 10-2006 |
There are 10 Starbucks/carribo's in Rochester Hills | ||
Civilprotectionunit4346 Member Username: Civilprotectionunit4346 Post Number: 133 Registered: 06-2007 |
Thats insane.... Overpriced yuppie coffee! I like the little coffee shops. I really am not a fan of starbucks & caribou coffee shops. From what ive heard about the development of the building, it sounds like it's going to be hotel rooms and apt's as well. I wonder if they are going to re-do the ball-room in the Fort Shelby like they did the Book-Cadillac. | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 1496 Registered: 06-2006 |
Scs: and in Cambridge they opened a Starbucks in the restroom of an existing Starbucks... ; D http://www.theonion.com/conten t/node/29030 | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 1497 Registered: 06-2006 |
Hybridy: You might not consider them "upscale", but they consider themselves to be so... http://www.thecheesecakefactor y.com/aboutus.htm | ||
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 787 Registered: 11-2005 |
They have cut large, gaping holes in the back of the hotel (the side facing Fort) for, I presume, demo work. | ||
Swiburn Member Username: Swiburn Post Number: 175 Registered: 07-2006 |
Anything new on progress with the Pick Fort Shelby? I wonder if the Barclays group (the ones that bought out Hilton) will continue with the project or will they "evaluate" it? I hope it's still a done deal. | ||
Scs100 Member Username: Scs100 Post Number: 1213 Registered: 12-2006 |
They're working. Not anything that's visible on the outside (in terms of progress), but the dumpsters and chutes are visible. | ||
Swiburn Member Username: Swiburn Post Number: 176 Registered: 07-2006 |
Thanks for the update, Scsl00. I heard that the hotel was once a popular place for Union Station passengers and the boats that docked nearby. Of course when the station was torn down and the boats stopped coming, the traffic fell off considerably. | ||
Kenp Member Username: Kenp Post Number: 605 Registered: 03-2006 |
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Burnsie Member Username: Burnsie Post Number: 1074 Registered: 11-2003 |
In the third pic Kenp posted, notice the portion of the facade that looks like an old auto plant exterior, with the classic exposed reinforced concrete frame. That's pretty neat-- that part looks like a factory, but is a hotel. | ||
Pffft Member Username: Pffft Post Number: 1299 Registered: 12-2003 |
The workers are tossing chunks of what looks like plaster out windows in the front, creating clouds of gray-white particles when the chunks hit the sidewalk ...that are floating toward Channel 4, across the street. Speaking of asbestos and face masks ... | ||
Eric Member Username: Eric Post Number: 895 Registered: 11-2004 |
I'm a bit surprised they haven't built a exterior elevator like at the B-C | ||
Wschnitt Member Username: Wschnitt Post Number: 9 Registered: 07-2007 |
Are there any updates for this work? |
