  Oladub Member Username: Oladub Post Number: 1 Registered: 08-2006 Posted From: 207.190.67.75 |
Two photos that I think show the same downtown buildings in about 1955 and in the late eighties - from vibrant to the wrecking ball. In each photo, note the buildings on the right with the ornate windows. Crowley’s, a DSR streetcar, and chrome trimmed DSR bus pre-date a Monroe Street block awaiting demolition. 1955- http://www.davesrailpix.com/ds r/htm/dsr037.htm late 1980's- https://www.detroityes.com/downtown /21monroe.htm | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 2037 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 69.221.36.81 |
Interesting stuff. We need a Monroe Block redevelopment, but I am willing to wait, with the mindset that, with each passing year, demand to live and work downtown will increase and our chances of getting a skyscraper will improve. How sweet would it look if our tallest building rose out of the center of the city, behind the existing skyscrapers? (not gonna happen) Now, I wasn't even school-age in the late 80s. Was the "Crowley's Block" the Monroe Block, or where the Compuware Garage currently is? | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 1440 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 63.157.60.153 |
I posted a lot of old photos of Crowley Milner in this thread: https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/62684/61477.html | ||
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 7756 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 198.208.159.19 |
The center of the city is quite a distance northwest of downtown. Probably not gonna see any new skyscrapers in the are around Highland Park. | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 2041 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 69.221.36.81 |
The center of downtown. | ||
Apbest Member Username: Apbest Post Number: 159 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 68.40.65.66 |
wow...such douchebagery im not sure if a skyscraper on Monroe would be nessecarily good. The block has a relatively large footprint and our goal is a block thats walkable and intergrated into urban environment not a large isolated superstructure (see RenCen)...if the demand exists for a 800ft mixed use building over that is still walkable and urban-friendly then that would be great but it seems unlikely...most of the campus martius plan will stay around 10-20 stories | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 2042 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 69.221.36.81 |
The RenCen is a real mess. It's footprint is way too large, and I would bet several times larger than the majority of the tallest buildings out there. Obviously, this is because it is a complex of tall buildings, all connected at ground level. A super-tall structure could fit on most of our downtown blocks; but it this is merely fantasy--I would be happy with 20 stories of mixed use on the Monroe Block. | ||
Hagglerock Member Username: Hagglerock Post Number: 305 Registered: 03-2005 Posted From: 12.214.243.66 |
Great find and welcome to the forum! Nice to see pics of Detroit's streetcars, decades before my time. | ||
Burnsie Member Username: Burnsie Post Number: 561 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 35.12.20.183 |
The Crowley Block and the Monroe block are separate. The Compuware garage is on the Crowley block. |
