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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
I understand that its aesthetics are not the most easily and widely palatable, but the Ren Cen is WAY too wrapped up in mental image of Detroit for me to ever wanna see it demolished.
i fondly remember going to the Ren Cen and seeing it for the first time at the age of 9 back in 1985. To me, it literally looked like it was straight outta some Hollywood sci fi movie set at the time.
Source: wikipedia.
And it'll be nice to finally get all of that distracting GM branding off it. |
Yeah, it's similar to the original WTC in NY - very controversial for destroying a neighborhood and initially hated for their brutishness, but then becoming a beloved symbol of NYC and now missed. I don't see them demolishing the whole complex but perhaps they may either convert the two small towers into residential or demolishing those two and better integrating the complex into the rest of downtown. RenCen has a huge amount of office space, 5 million per Wiki, and Detroit is likely struggling with high office vacancies like most cities and the two smaller towers are not really the signature piece of RenCen.