Written on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 at 12:38pm by Mark | 4 Comments

Landscape paradox

Mark Croce has announced recently a very exciting project involving turning a vacant CBD structure between the Hyatt and Avant into a luxury, boutique hotel…a unique addition to the hotel inventory downtown.

Usually boutique hotels come to established districts that are already pretty nice but this one will be quite the catalyst for a fairly pathetic street.

Facing directly south lays a large surface lot, a small, one story structure.

To the west, a beautiful but poorly used structure of the same scale, a surface lot and auto repair shop.

To the northeast (its main entrance) a parking garage, and a couple small, vacant structures.

Somehow this is what we have in-between the heart of the financial district on Main and the hottest development area in the city-Delaware Ave. Hopefully, Croce’s project creates a more distinguished demand for the surrounding properties to fill in the gap that is Huron Street.

4 Comments

  1. wcp says:
    October 6, 2009 at 10:34 pm

    Good post- I’m working on a similar one myself. :) It is an interesting street- all this investment, but no cohesive plan or streetscape. There’s still a chance to get it right if/when the south side of Huron fills in.

  2. STEEL says:
    October 6, 2009 at 11:06 pm

    You are kidding right? We all know that all this parking makes this building ultra valuable….at least that is what they tell us…. As a matter of fact this building should be torn down for more parking. Developing this building is just going to add to the downtown parking shortage. How are we going to ever turn downtown around if we keep using up potential parking for buildings.

  3. paul says:
    October 7, 2009 at 12:52 am

    steel get a life

 

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