Tall & Urban News

Dan Gilbert's real estate firm has released updated renderings of what its ambitious Hudson's site development will look like once construction finishes in a few years. The images were recently shared on the project's website. The development, 1208 Woodward Ave. downtown, broke ground in December 2017 and is still under construction. The project consists of two buildings: a skyscraper with luxury residences and a luxury hotel, and an 11-story mid-rise with more than 550,000 square feet (51,096 square meters) of office space, exhibition space and ground-floor retail, according to the website.

The buildings are expected to be done in 2024, two years behind the project's originally announced timeline. On Wednesday, May 11, 2022 city officials approved a variance for the skyscraper's upper-level floorplates, which Bedrock representatives said was needed because the tower's floor plates will get increasingly smaller at higher levels. Bedrock has yet to announce how many floors the skyscraper will have, although building permits last year put it at 49 floors and 680 feet (207 meters) in height. Early on, the tower was planned to soar 912 feet tall (277 meters)—overshadowing the 727-foot-tall (221-meter-tall) Renaissance Center—but plans were downsized. The skyscraper's 100 to 120 luxury apartments and condos will begin at floor 26, and the 227-room hotel is to go below.

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