{"id":74474,"date":"2024-07-17T12:03:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T16:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=74474"},"modified":"2024-07-17T12:03:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T16:03:15","slug":"gm-rencen-headquarters-could-be-demolished-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=74474","title":{"rendered":"GM’s RenCen headquarters in Detroit under consideration for demolition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of the buildings making up Detroit\u2019s Renaissance Center and GM<\/a>\u2019s global headquarters could be demolished, according to recent reports. The Detroit Free Press<\/em><\/a> reported last week that of the seven towers, all but one or two of them could be subject to demolition, with those couple left standing as a nod to preserve Detroit\u2019s skyline.<\/p>\n

General Motors<\/a> is officially leaving the five buildings it owns in 2025 and moving to the new Hudson<\/a>\u2019s Detroit complex. In the meantime, discussions are being held by GM, the real estate firm Bedrock (Dan Gilbert\u2019s company), architectural firms and construction companies. Speaking to the Freep<\/em> under anonymity, folks familiar with those discussions are suggesting that demolition could be the most likely outcome. Those sources say that GM has asked the state to kick in \u201chundreds of millions\u201d to \u201chelp pay for a partial demolition, build a new structure and renovate any remaining tower or towers at the site.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neither GM nor Bedrock commented on the speculation to the Freep<\/em>, but the Detroit Mayor\u2019s office released a statement.<\/p>\n

“The mayor has made it clear from the beginning that all options for the Renaissance Center site will be actively explored,” Mayor Mike Duggan’s spokesman John Roach told the Freep. “We are not going to have a situation as we had with the Hudson’s building or Michigan Central where critical sites sat empty for 40 years because this community’s leaders would not make realistic decisions. All options are being explored and no decision has been made.”<\/p>\n

If most of the Renaissance Center\u2019s towers are demolished, it\u2019s likely that we\u2019ll see new construction around the area designed to draw people from the city in, rather than keep them away<\/a>. The acres of parking near the RenCen could be redeveloped to improve matters even further and link the city up with the now enticing Riverfront.<\/p>\n

GM says it\u2019s spent over $1 billion across the years on improvements to the RenCen that it\u2019s lived in since 1996. The decision on what to ultimately do with the multi-building complex isn\u2019t expected to land until next year, so for now, the future of GM\u2019s long-held global headquarters remains in the balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most of the buildings making up Detroit\u2019s Renaissance Center and GM\u2019s global headquarters could be demolished, according to recent reports. The Detroit Free Press reported last week that of the seven towers, all but one or two of them could be subject to demolition, with those couple left standing as a nod to preserve Detroit\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}