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Originally Posted by LMich
This reminds me so much of everything that was taken out on Detroit's riverfront to make way for Hart Plaza, the RenCen, and Cobo Hall. It's funny, though, because when they knocked down Detroit historic wharf district, they actually found pieces of the original town under that. lol
BTW, I've always loved the Railway Exchange Building for its sheer dominance of downtown. It's so ridiculously out of scale that it's charming. How many hundreds-of-thousands of square feet is it, and what's it used for, today?
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Theres a Macys on the first 6 floors or so...it was our own much superior Famous Barr until 2006 (until Macys came in and took over), I feel like Macys is going to can our downtown store at any time
...I have no idea what is in the other 15 stories or so...its 1,200,000 square feet! I've heard that it was the largest office building in the world when it opened, but I've never been factually convinced of that.
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