Plan to demolish two skyscrapers at Detroit’s Renaissance Center moves forward
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Detroit developer Bedrock has announced a new round of funding for a controversial scheme to redevelop the John Portman-designed Renaissance Center, with new renderings of the project.
Bedrock announced that Detroit’s Downtown Development Authority (DDA) had committed $75 million to the project, which will see the demolition of two out of seven skyscrapers in the 1970s complex.
The redevelopment scheme includes demolishing the two skyscrapers closest to the waterfront and reducing the size of the ground-level podium that connects the skyscrapers.
Bedrock said that the project will reactivate what it views as an underutilised site, comparing the potential to other waterfront urban revitalisations in Chicago and New York.
