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Originally Posted by animatedmartian
Generally yes, but there's a hill in the Financial District where the city's historical fort used to be, or more specifically, where the Penobscot Building is now.
The Hudson's is just outside of the hill but still on slightly higher terrain than the Ren Cen.
The Ren Cen is also partially reclaimed land from the river (naturally it was more a more swamp-like coastline).
The difference between the Ren Cen and Hudson's ground level is around 48 feet. The difference between Penobscot and Hudson's is about 78 feet (to give an idea of how tall the hill is).
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I'm not getting that on Google Earth at all - maybe more like a 10ft difference between grade along Woodward next to Hudsons to the grade at the Ren Cen off the winter garden along the St. Clair River.
Anecdotally the time I have spent walking around Downtown Detroit has also shown it to be very flat, definitely not an 80ft tall hill in the middle of it!
Detroit is generally remarkably flat geographically.
Hudson's is ultimately only 40ft or so shorter than the RenCen. 10ft is made up for in grade difference, the rest is likely perspective in that image - the Hudson's block is a lot closer to the camera than the RenCen so it would look larger.
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