RenCen Tower 200 is locked up
A listener who works on site told me that as of today, the doors of Tower 200 of the Renaissance Center are locked “permanently,” with a sign saying that the doors will be closed until further notice.
Tower 200 is one of two medium-height towers on the East Jefferson side that would be saved under the current publicly shared plans for the partial demolition and reconstruction of the RenCen. It has a red LED at the top in the photo above.
I’ve also heard that December is when all the remaining retail and service tenants need to be out of the RenCen.
Whatever happens next — either the residential/office/park renovation proposed or total demolition, it seems one of Detroit’s iconic buildings is truly closing a chapter.
The fact this article calls the bus garage a bus terminal is extremely misleading because a bus terminal is implied to be a place where passengers get on. It’d be nice for them to get a new bus terminal because the existing one is a dump which seems to be the norm for intercity bus terminals here in the U.S.
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Aren’t they always kind of trashy everywhere?
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Hard to imagine they have that kind of $ to throw around.
End of an era
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high-rise cylinder hotel will temporarily close in April 2027 so that adjoining office buildings can be demolished
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End of an era
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600 Tower
Dr. Mahmoud Al-Hadidi is requesting a Public Act 146 Obsolete Property Rehabilitation Act tax break for the 600 Tower of the RenCen to convert the 21-story building east of the main RenCen complex into a hotel space, along with 86 apartments and six condos, for a total of 92 residential units, according to Detroit City Council documents.
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