Quicken Loans - 2 Sites
More news today about Quicken Loans moving to Detroit. Really most of this isn’t new news (hmm, maybe it is, but since I’m a team member it isn’t to me?)
Quicken to build on two sites in downtown Detroit
I like the Free Press’s use of the word “tower” when describing the headquarters we’re planning to build. I’m curious as to where they got the information that led them to believe we’re building a tower. When I think of a tower, buildings like The Book Tower or the David Broderick Tower, I think of a narrow skinny building 30 stories or higher.
The Hudson’s location is hardly a footprint for creating a tower. I suppose I could see a tower going up on the Statler location because of it’s smaller area (we’d have to build taller rather than wider).
The other thing that gets me is that every time I see one of these overhead shots of the sites, for whatever reason they only show just the Statler spot. We really need to take over the site across the street as well for a HUGE footprint. The Tuller was demolished decades ago, and the United Artists Theater/Building is as far as I know still vacant. I’m not pro-demolishing, for sure I’d love to save that theater. But, if it is in the way of Quicken building a massive HQ across both those spots, I say demo it and let’s get a huge honkin headquarters with the People Mover driving right through the middle of it. Put a station right in the Quicken Loans building!
