As far as the redevelopment plans go, a lot of ideas have come and gone. One idea was to use it as the Detroit police headquarters. It’s rumored that the casinos considered it when they came to Detroit. The problem is, to rehab the building is conservatively estimated at $100-$300 million. No one is going to make that kind of investment without a way to get a return on that kind of money. Right now it’s hard to make a business case for it. And because it was built extremely sturdy to deal with the rumbling of trains for decades you can’t demo it with traditional methods. It would literally have to be taken down brick by brick. That method is still tens of millions.

So, no financial reason to rehab it, no financial reason to take it down. And here it is. I’d love to see it saved and restored, yet I also understand the financial concerns make it a significant challenge. And it really is too bad for so many reasons. Hopefully there will be enough of a turnaround where one day this level of investment will make sense.

Hope they save the building could be good as a hotel looking at the size of it?