Tony Briscoe The Detroit News Comments Detroit — From ultramodern skyscrapers to urban farming, hundreds of people turned out to view and vote on designs of ideas to revamp the downtown property on Woodward Avenue where the historic J.L. Hudson apartment store once stood. The international design competition, sponsored by Opportunity Detroit, invited the public to submit ideas to imagine possibilities for the 92,400 square-foot parcel of land, and over 200 submissions from 23 states and 22 countries answered the call. The Hudson Department Store closed in 1983. In 1998, the building was demolished. Rock Ventures LLC, an entity connected to Dan Gilbert, founder of Quicken Loans, has...
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