Market & Fulton

[GRDadof3]

Question is: What and who is it?

I wanted to have UP beat the mainstream press on this

[blueman459]

What a March this will be..

[torgo]

Where did you hear this??

[GR_Urbanist]

My sources tell me that it will be a 45-story office/residental tower with at minimum 4 national retail chains on the first and 2nd floor...

Of course the sources are the voices in my own head so their track record is at 0%.

[GRDadof3]

Where did you hear this??

From another forumer here.

Drawings are complete

Possible retail on lower floors

"Bunch" of other floors

Hoping someone could elaborate more. There are several people here involved with this development....

[mgreven]

That's the land owned by Alticor, right?

Could it be anything but an Alticor complex? Just wondering...

They wouldn't sell the land to someone else I wouldn't think.

(based on the track record - I'll probably get built then...)

Exciting!!! java script:emoticon('',%20'smid_26')

[torgo]

Man oh man, I picked the wrong week to go on vacation! But regardless,

[Greedo]

"Bunch" of other floors

Well, it's gotta be at least three stories to accomodate/integrate the skywalk.

The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last.

[BigPlayJ]

This is very interesting. Could this be an attempt to upstage a later announcement by Project X? A related announcement?

[Rizzo]

I second my main man Blueman! Thanks to March Madness from Jeff... Oh how sweet it is!

[Prankster]

Man oh man, I picked the wrong week to go on vacation! But regardless,

I know!!! Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up sniffing glue.

[Rizzo]

Looks like I picked the right week to work minimal hours to "relax" now I keep comming back to UP- GR to see whats going on. I jumped for joy the second I saw this thread...I knew it was comming.

[d59]

I'm trying to visualize. . . what corner?

[Prankster]

I'm trying to visualize. . . what corner?

Sounds like the sw corner.

[GaryP]

If this is the big Amway parking lot; I'm in disbelief. I've been under the impression those guys were holding onto this land in the hopes of one day building something spectacular. My hope is that they got the inside track on development X and are already planning something complimentary, but I dont think would make sense if a bunch of people have been working on it for a while.

[Rizzo]

This package better include height.

[sfloria]

That would be a great central spot for a big grocery store for all the new condos going up. Are we ready for a downtown Meijer shopping center?

[Time]

"bunch" of other floors sounds encouraging!!

[snoogit]

That would be a great central spot for a big grocery store for all the new condos going up. Are we ready for a downtown Meijer shopping center?

Oh not a Meijer Shopping Center on the riverfront the loading docks would be on the river side

[localtalent]

Oh not a Meijer Shopping Center on the riverfront the loading docks would be on the river side

Loading docks could be on the south side....

[torgo]

Loading docks could be on the south side....

I'm sure Charley's would be thrilled

[localtalent]

I'm sure Charley's would be thrilled

Who's Charley?

Nobody by that name around here....

[snoogit]

Loading docks could be on the south side....

I dont know if I would be so sure about that, Id hate to have them on any side in that area. If Meijer builds a supercenter anywhere it should be by the new Mercantile building.

[torgo]

If downtown were a super-center free zone, it certainly wouldn't break my heart.

[wolverine]

In this case, loading docks are placed at the front of the building. A garage door is placed within the facade in a way that is aesthetically pleasing. The loading areas are actually inside, so the truck backs in. I've seen several good examples here at the architecture school. The only problem is the driver has gotta have skillz to back in since the garage has street frontage.