The largest development downtown is going higher. Bedrock released new renderings for the Hudson’s site this week, with a new design that adds dimension to the formerly-flat tower.
At the groundbreaking last winter, the plan called for an 800-foot tower for office and residential with an observation deck, plus a 12-story podium with retail and event space. The total plan would be 1 million square feet. The new plan, according to Crain’s, puts the tower at 912 feet, with the new stepped design adding room for terraces and hospitality spaces. The podium would be 14 stories. The new design would also add a hotel.
The entire development would be 1.424 million square feet.
William Sharples, principal of Shop Architects PC, tells Crain’s that the new design pays respect to Art Deco towers like the Penobscot and the David Stott building in Detroit’s skyline. Sharples says, “The addition of new programming in the latest iteration of the design allowed us as architects and designers to break down the scale of the tower even further, and to approach it even more holistically, something we have been conscious of since the beginning of the project.”
“We are excited about the direction and the design of the tower. We think it captures sort of a Detroit essence. It draws on history and looks forward,” said Jamie Witherspoon, director of architecture for Bedrock.
Decisions on height should be reached by January.
Construction at the iconic city block over the past year has involved digging out the underground parking garage that was there.
Grouped with three other major developments downtown—the Monroe Blocks, Book Tower, and the Compuware building expansion—the Hudson’s site received $618 million in tax breaks for transformational developments. The four developments total $2.15 billion (for now); the Hudson’s site itself was announced to cost $900 million at the time of groundbreaking. No word yet on what the total cost would be at this point.
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