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Originally Posted by Detroit1995
Great pictures on this thread! I have a question that I've been thinking about for a long time. Will there ever be a skyscraper in Detroit that will surpass the Ren Cen in height?
Now I understand that if this were to ever happen, it wouldn't be in the near future. I'm 19 years old and Detroit has gained and lost so many treasures since 1995.
I remember my Dad telling me how amazing it was to see the Ren Cen rise on the riverfront. Yes I know it messed with our Art-Deco skyline, but hey I'm proud to have the complex and GM downtown.
In my lifetime, I can't see any skyscraper surpass the Ren Cen. We've also only had two skyscrapers completed in the last 21 years, One Detroit Center and Greektown Casino.
What are your thoughts?
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It's entirely more likely that we'll see towers in the 15-30 floor range before then. There's still a lot of space to fill and not really too many companies moving into Detroit that would need something on the size of something like One Detroit Center (which btw is the tallest office building, the tallest part of the Ren Cen is a hotel).
So with that in mind, the next likely tallest building in Detroit would probably be a thin residential tower (or some sort of mixed-use), but in that regards too, Detroit still has plenty of space to fill before demand calls on something of that size.
So it's not impossible, but not likely in the immediate future. Maybe in several to ten years at the least provided the economy stays on its current track.