Book Cadillac and downtown’s revival examined in the NY Times

Not only is the Book Cadillac big, it’s a big deal. The New York Times looks at the Detroit landmark, its renovation, and the “relatively unheralded revival” of downtown.

Excerpt:

The new Westin Book Cadillac Detroit, though, is seen as
representing another Detroit story — the relatively unheralded revival
of the city’s downtown as a place to live, do business and be
entertained.
In
September, for instance, the MotorCity Casino, one of three casinos
here, completed a $300 million expansion and renovation. Last year, the
Detroit Institute of Arts finished a $158.2 million restoration and
expansion. In this decade alone, new baseball and football stadiums
were completed for the Detroit Tigers ($300 million) and the Detroit
Lions ($430 million).
The city also constructed the $122.5
million Detroit School of the Arts. Some $220 million was spent to
restore Orchestra Hall and build the Max M. Fisher Music Center, places where the Detroit Symphony performs.
Compuware, a software company, opened a $400 million headquarters in 2002. A year later, General Motors
completed a $500 million remodeling of the Renaissance Center along the
Detroit River for its headquarters. And dozens of smaller projects have
transformed old warehouses into lofts, old buildings into offices, and
surface parking lots into homes and offices.

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