Venue Tower at the BOB - 20 Monroe Live - House of Blues/Live Nation Venue

[joeDowntown]

30 minutes ago, GR_Urbanist said:

Even though we are all meh on the residents portion, the density it brings to that corner is amazing just at this point. It's going to look pretty massive when completed.

That is going to be nice. It's always been sort of no mans land with the surface lot, parking ramp and and Arena set far back off the street on the south side of Fulton. I think this will help the north and south side of Fulton feel more integrated. 

Next up, I'd love to see the triangular lot at Fulton, Ionia and Lyon get built on  

joe

 

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8 minutes ago, joeDowntown said:

Next up, I'd love to see the triangular lot at Fulton, Ionia and Lyon get built on  

 

Stay tuned.......

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3 hours ago, urbanland said:

Stay tuned.......

Do tell

[GRDadof3]

On 4/16/2016 at 11:34 AM, urbanland said:

Stay tuned.......

Is this the lot that Hinman still owns? I assume they still own? Or are we talking about the lot next to the Trade Center building that CWD was looking at? 

[joeDowntown]

On April 16, 2016 at 11:34 AM, urbanland said:

Stay tuned.......

I was talking about the Hinman lot. How about you Urbanland?  

[GR8scott]

On 4/16/2016 at 9:34 AM, urbanland said:

Stay tuned.......

you mean Louis not Lyon? I would be hard to top what was once there, but a unique opportunity....

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Wow!  What an awesome looking building?  Why was it torn down?

[GRDadof3]

2 hours ago, Floyd_Z said:

Wow!  What an awesome looking building?  Why was it torn down?

It was a parking garage, the whole thing. Not sure if that is why it was torn down. 

[RegalTDP]

12 minutes ago, GRDadof3 said:

It was a parking garage, the whole thing. Not sure if that is why it was torn down. 

It was built in 1912 as a shoe factory for Rhinge, Kalmbach, Logie** & Co.  It started as six stories, later built up into eleven.  It was sold to Morton House to use as their parking garage, and then later as public parking.  It was abandoned by the 1970s.

What a great building for such a small lot - I've never seen a photo this close up of it before.  If it was taken in '78 it was probably abandoned by then.

 

**Yes, related to Mayor Logie.

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Yeah, something like that needs to be built again. That scale anyways.

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Shoot, held my phone the wrong way

Edited April 22, 2016 by ironyisadeadscene

[Chester Cheeto]

Some close up progress shots.

[joeDowntown]

Looks like they've got to be close to building the first floor above ground (which may actually be the 2nd or third floor). 

Joe

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The walls are really making it harder for light to enter the actual venue area now.

[kevin8gr]

4-24-16

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16 hours ago, kevin8gr said:

4-24-16

 

Wow, just looked out at this site a few minutes ago from the Campau Ramp and the Venue (monroe-side) portion is now almost completely enclosed with the walls. Big change in just 3 days.  I will try and get a picture up myself soon.  Fun to see the progress every day.

[GRDadof3]

Cage match. Floor is going in. 

 

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1 hour ago, GRDadof3 said:

Cage match. Floor is going in. 

 

 

Wow!  Chuggin' along!

[mpchicago]

Nice - Looks massive from the pic. It kind of reminds me of what it looked like when they were building the "front porch" of the GRAM.

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[kevin8gr]

Great shot. It gives you a good scale of how big the concert "venue" will be.

[GRDadof3]

1 hour ago, ironyisadeadscene said:

Wow. Don't.anyone.breathe on those walls..

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2 hours ago, GRDadof3 said:

Wow. Don't.anyone.breathe on those walls..

No kidding. Looks flimsy. They need to get a roof on that stat. This was from yesterday, but the forum was down. More work done today is evident.

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[GRDadof3]

On 5/13/2016 at 2:46 AM, ironyisadeadscene said:

I noticed today that "alley" to the right that's going in is wider than I thought it would be. Will be a cool feature I think.