Rosa Parks Transit Center

[statedude3]

Found these renderings while searching Google Earth and the AIA website. I know the design has not changed or anything, but I thought it was interesting to see another concept of what could have been...

see the link below for more information...

http://www.aia150.org/bl_150_aia_detroit.php

[Jasoncw]

Where would that project be located?

[Michi]

Interesting! The Rosa Parks is coming along quite well. Will have to remember to get photographs next time around.

[ZachariahDaMan]

This was in the Local News section of today's Detroit Free Press

Transit center now due in '09

Completion of the City of Detroit's Rosa Parks Transit Center has been pushed back another year.

The center, at the corner of Cass and Michigan, eventually will serve as the city's downtown busing hub.

When city officials announced they were naming the center after Rosa Parks in November 2005, they said it would open in 2006, but contract extensions expected to come up for votes before the City Council today would put off completion until as late as March 21, 2009.

[statedude3]

Maybe the RPTC would be done faster if there were more than 5 people working part time on the project. I have been by there several times in the last couple weeks and seen real actual work going on just a couple of times, whereas other projects around town have dozens of workers on site from sun up to sun down.

[detwaa84]

March 21st doesn't sound like a year delay, but just a few months. It was planned for end of 2008. I was hoping they'd clear Capitol Park in time for the Westin opening.

[tapezord]

March 21st doesn't sound like a year delay, but just a few months. It was planned for end of 2008. I was hoping they'd clear Capitol Park in time for the Westin opening.

[Michi]

Saturday February 23, 2008

Rosa Parks Transit Terminal is making some good progress.

Book in the back.

Book Cadillac in the back.

[rbdetsport]

What is the scheduled completion?

[Jasoncw]

It's either 1926 or 2026, I don't remember which.

[illmatic774]

The most embarrassingly slow project in Detroit.

I remember getting a chuckle out of this at hotfudgedetroit:

The Empire State Building was completed in 410 days. Will the RP Transit Building be able to beat that?

[Allan]

It has taken a while, but they ran into some problems when they realized that half of the infrastructure coming out of the SBC building went right through the project site. SBC was asked if they had any utilities running through, but apparently they didn't seem to know or care if they did. These had to be relocated before work could progress. It makes building a simple project all the more complicated. After all, you can never have a project completed on time or on budget, especially in Detroit!

[wolverine]

I was actually expecting to see just low concrete walls, but surprise! Steel!