 
Oldredfordette
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Username: Oldredfordette
Post Number: 2880
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - 2:29 pm: |    |
I'm on the original side. Across from the old library and halfway down the room. Down from the toners. |
Patrick
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Username: Patrick
Post Number: 5040
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - 2:32 pm: | |
oldred, where ya working now? |
Oldredfordette
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Username: Oldredfordette
Post Number: 2881
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - 2:35 pm: | |
Where I been. Watching it wind down. |
Kslice
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Username: Kslice
Post Number: 175
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - 2:41 pm: | |
I hope they save the shoe shine. I look foreward to them doing my Vans. |
Southen
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Username: Southen
Post Number: 312
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - 2:51 pm: | |
Actually Patrick Ive just been in the building several times prior to renovation, so I know what its like on the inside. |
Viziondetroit
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Username: Viziondetroit
Post Number: 1177
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - 3:55 pm: | |
Lol @ polishing Vans shoes |
Patrick
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Username: Patrick
Post Number: 5043
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - 8:44 pm: | |
oldred, im on the other side of nthe same building you're in lol. |
Oldredfordette
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Username: Oldredfordette
Post Number: 2884
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - 8:54 pm: | |
I thought so. There's actually quite a few of us on here. |
Patrick
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Username: Patrick
Post Number: 5044
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - 9:15 pm: | |
Maybe Ralph B is here too? |
Patrick
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Username: Patrick
Post Number: 5052
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 14, 2007 - 10:33 am: | |
On Friday they were powerwashing the brick facade. I wonder if the water pressure could damage brickwork that is nearly a century old though. |
Pffft
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Username: Pffft
Post Number: 1384
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 14, 2007 - 10:38 am: | |
They still haven't gotten some graffiti way at the top of the building, facing Comerica Bank. Can't wait til that's gone.
Watching a pigeon fly into an open window, I wonder how much of a problem that is, until they get the building closed off? |
Charlottepaul
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Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 1814
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 14, 2007 - 11:52 am: | |
"On Friday they were powerwashing the brick facade. I wonder if the water pressure could damage brickwork that is nearly a century old though."
Why does everyone always bring up this issue (in some form or another) whenever anything historical is being cleaned? THEY ARE PROFESSIONALS! Let them do their work; they know what is best for the material and it's final appearance. |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 248
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, October 14, 2007 - 12:03 pm: | |
"Why does everyone always bring up this issue (in some form or another) whenever anything historical is being cleaned? THEY ARE PROFESSIONALS! Let them do their work; they know what is best for the material and it's final appearance."
Yeah, they would have fixed 7 Mile and these other streets right too. Now it's as bad as it was before they reconstructed them 3 years ago. |
Patrick
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Username: Patrick
Post Number: 5053
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 14, 2007 - 5:40 pm: | |
I'd be careful putting all my faith in a restoration firm. Fuck-ups happen and they happen often. |
Rocket_city
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Username: Rocket_city
Post Number: 435
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 14, 2007 - 8:01 pm: | |
I'd rather they do it than me. (proper English?) |
Burnsie
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Username: Burnsie
Post Number: 1175
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 14, 2007 - 8:49 pm: | |
My personal, non-professional opinion: Any bricks that are damaged by powerwashing are too weak and should be replaced anyway. |
Andylinn
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Username: Andylinn
Post Number: 594
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 14, 2007 - 9:50 pm: | |
i see pigeons (and their dead bodies and excrement) in alot of buildings. I can't imagine that's fun to clean up. There are alot of them (or were) in the Fort Shelby. |
Bobj
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Username: Bobj
Post Number: 2511
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 14, 2007 - 10:06 pm: | |
This is very exciting to see this project go. I have been downtown lots of times as a kid and adult and have gone into many of the buildings before they were closed or abandoned. But, I have never been in the Fort Shelby Hotel - ever!
I want to stay they overnight soon after the opening and see what it is like! |
Charlottepaul
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Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 1824
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, October 15, 2007 - 6:45 am: | |
"I'd be careful putting all my faith in a restoration firm. Fuck-ups happen and they happen often."
Yes, and that is why all of the contracts are written as they are. If the sub contractor messes up some part of the process, it will be carefully addressed (by those with knowledge and those that have a stake). |
Oldredfordette
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Username: Oldredfordette
Post Number: 2919
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Monday, October 15, 2007 - 9:18 am: | |
It's amazing how sturdy that building is. The insides are as trashed as you would expect, but as we watch the renovations proceed, the old girl really seems to be standing up to it.
The guys taking the buyout say that is the only thing they regret, not being able to see them finish. |
French777
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Username: French777
Post Number: 252
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, October 20, 2007 - 7:58 pm: | |
The picture posted in that other thread Detroit rises slowly is very good. Seems like they are progressing at a good pace. |
Rhymeswithrawk
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Username: Rhymeswithrawk
Post Number: 1043
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, December 01, 2007 - 10:45 pm: | |
They've cleaned all the graffiti off the top of the Kahn-designed Tower, and it looks gorgeous! As good as new! She's gonna be a beaut, folks. |
Patrick
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Username: Patrick
Post Number: 5205
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, December 01, 2007 - 11:24 pm: | |
What's the deal with the building south of the Fort Shelby on Fort Street? Are the two structures connected? What will go in the construction parking lot off Fort next to Comerica? Will that just be parking? |
Rhymeswithrawk
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Username: Rhymeswithrawk
Post Number: 1045
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, December 02, 2007 - 1:10 pm: | |
They are not connected. That's a print shop. I'd hate to see that building leveled because one, it's gorgeous, and two, it's surrounded by parking lots. I cannot imagine that any price the parking lot owners (Detroit News and Freep lot notwithstanding) would sell at would be more than the cost of buying out a print shop with its heavy machinery and demolition of a building.
I just figured the construction lot would become Shelby parking.
What I last heard was that there wasn't going to be a garage built, at least, not at first. Normally that would spell the doom of such a project, but there is the parking deck on Fort and First. Not sure. |
Oldredfordette
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Username: Oldredfordette
Post Number: 3328
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, December 02, 2007 - 2:21 pm: | |
It looks really cool at night with the visquine (sp) on the windows and the lights on. Like a big lantern. |
Eric
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Username: Eric
Post Number: 1022
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, December 02, 2007 - 2:51 pm: | |
Not building a garage shouldn't be an issue for the hotel with valet parking. But residents will want closer parking I imagine, if they haven't already, will acquire that unpaved lot next door. |
Rocket_city
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Username: Rocket_city
Post Number: 484
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, December 02, 2007 - 2:55 pm: | |
Where will all the hotel guests park?
I saw the PFS last night after Noel Night, and every window on every floor was lit up. It looked fantastic!
Also, I was in the Scarab Club for the first time during Noel Night, and a friend and I were discussing how much the city could use more loft/studio space like that at that Scarab Club. Seems like a good candidate would be the print shop. I really hope it is not Madison-Lenoxified. |
Mdoyle
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Username: Mdoyle
Post Number: 267
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, December 02, 2007 - 3:00 pm: | |
like artists lofts/studios? There's a ton out there. Russell, 555 gallery, the new Ladybug gallery run by CAID, 4731 gallery to name a few. |
Rocket_city
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Username: Rocket_city
Post Number: 487
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, December 02, 2007 - 3:19 pm: | |
Yah, exactly. I know there are a bunch, but I think Detroit needs more because there are a lot of creative minds here that need space. Also, I think this would be a good way for the city to attract the creative class from outside the region as well. |
Charlottepaul
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Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 2085
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 03, 2007 - 6:35 pm: | |
"like artists lofts/studios? There's a ton out there. Russell, 555 gallery, the new Ladybug gallery run by CAID, 4731 gallery to name a few."
...and that new one in Mexicantown. |