The $863 million arena opened in September 2017 with a series of Kid Rock concerts. The state-of-the-art facility that hosts the Detroit Red Wings, Detroit Pistons, and regular concerts has 20,000 seats, the largest center-hung scoreboard in the world, several restaurants and bars, as well as offices for Google.

The $150-million Little Caesars World Headquarters broke ground in September 2016, but its completion was delayed for over a year because of an unusual design choice: windows shaped like pizza slices. The 234,000-square-foot, nine-story structure finally opened as Detroit’s first newly constructed corporate headquarters building in more than a decade and only the seventh since 1950. The first floor also has about 25,000 square feet of retail space.

Wayne State University's Mike Ilitch School of Business broke ground in summer 2016 and opened for students in 2018. Funded in large part from a $40 million gift from Mike and Marian Ilitch, the facility has classrooms, laboratories, faculty offices, a cafe, working “coves,” a terrace, a courtyard, and more.

In 2018, Olympia announced a “European-style promenade boasting Cobblestone paving, festoon lights, and al fresco dining space” along Columbia Street, in between the Fox Theatre and the new Little Caesars World Headquarters. Construction has been ongoing. Cuban burger restaurant Frita Batidos has opened a location there in October.

Olympia recently announced that it would redevelop the historic Women’s City Club Building downtown for $25 million. Spaces, a global coworking company and subsidiary of Switzerland-based IWG plc, will lease approximately 47,000 square feet of the six-story building. There will also be around 10,000 square feet of ground floor retail.

Olympia leased the development rights of the historic building to Bagley Development Group LLC, which is planning a $56 million redevelopment. The project would convert the 18-story downtown building, which has sat dormant for years, into 148 apartments. But developer Emmett Moten also wants to demolish the theatre, designed by C. Howard Crane and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

There’s been plenty of controversy about whether demolition of the theatre is necessary.

Another dormant building in the district. In 2017, Olymipa announced that the American, formerly the Hotel Fort Wayne, would be redeveloped into 163 units with ground-floor retail. Renovations were supposed to start in 2018, but little work has been done on the building since.

Redevelopment of the Alhambra at 100 Temple called for 46 more residential units and ground-floor retail. Renovations were supposed to start in 2018, but little work has been done since.

Mike Ilitch bought the historic building, along with the Fox Theatre, in the 1980s. A new roof was installed in 2005 and it had some facade work done in 2018. Olympia has proposed various development plans for the building over the years, but none have come to fruition.

Initially dubbed the “Arena Lofts,” this development called for a new-build condo building with ground-floor retail. Plans eventually changed for this to become an office building. But there’s been little news since Crain’s Detroit Business last reported that construction was moving slowly.

Another project that was supposed to be residential but has been converted into office space. It’s also under construction.

First speculated as a hotel for visiting athletes, there’s been no news about this vacant site just south of Little Caesars Arena. Olympia has missed multiple deadlines to submit development plans to the DEGC.