More Quicken Loans employees move downtown

After stating his commitment to moving another 2,000 employees  downtown, it seems Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert isn’t wasting any time. The Detroit News confirms Quicken will purchase the Madison Building, which overlooks Grand Circus Park from Broadway near Witherell St. The Madison is also home to Angelina Italian Bistro — but with 43,000 available square feet, there should be room for an army of Quicken employees.

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Quicken
signed a five-year lease for four floors in the Compuware building in
August to house 1,700 workers but still doesn’t have enough space to
bring all of its Michigan-based employees downtown. Quicken
founder and Chairman Dan Gilbert said in August he wanted to move an
additional 2,000 workers downtown. He said then that he hopes to attract
more businesses downtown and create a technology hub that will help
downtown’s Woodward Avenue be known as “WEBward Avenue.”

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