A long-abandoned 16-story building in downtown Detroit is getting a long-awaited renovation.
On Tuesday, May 13, city officials held a ceremony marking the beginning of renovations for Lee Plaza on West Grand Boulevard. The structure that formerly housed a hotel, apartment building, and senior living home has stood vacant and deteriorating since it closed in 1997.
“For 30 years, everybody coming in and out saw this building in the skyline with the roof that you can see is not there, and the easy thing was to knock it down and hope they forget,” Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said in remarks captured by Local News 4 Detroit during the event. “But we said, but what would happen if you renovated, you made that a part of the permanent skyline.”…