Marquette Building (Detroit)
Marquette Building | |
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| Location | 243 West Congress Street Detroit, Michigan |
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| Coordinates | 42°19′43.5″N 83°2′55″W / 42.328750°N 83.04861°W |
| Part of | Detroit Financial District (ID09001067) |
| Designated CP | December 14, 2009 |
The Marquette Building is a historic building located in
TCF Center to the west, Fort Pontchartrain a Wyndham Hotel to the south, and Fort Shelby Hotel to the east. The building was for a time owned by Mexican billionaire, Carlos Slim.[1]
The
high-rise stands at 10 stories in height, and is used for retail, offices, and a restaurant. It was designed in the Chicago School architectural style, and is mainly made of brick
.
This building formerly contained the Office of the Michigan Secretary of State on its ground floor. 400 Monroe Associates saved this building from demolition in 1979, completing a careful historic preservation redevelopment in 1982.
Adient Plc announced on Wednesday, November 30, 2016, it had acquired the building to house the headquarters of its global seating business.[2]
Those plans have been cancelled as of June, 2018.[3]
The building is now owned by Detroit-based real estate company Sterling Group which plans on leasing the space.[4]
References
- ^ Dolia Estevez. "Billionaire Carlos Slim Listing Fifth Ave Mansion For $80 Million, Almost Two Times What He Paid". Forbes. Retrieved May 9, 2015.
- ^ "Adient announces plans to establish Detroit global headquarters bringing 500 jobs to the city". Adient. Retrieved November 30, 2016.
- ^ "Auto supplier Adient cancels move to downtown Detroit. Here's why". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved July 5, 2018.
- ^ "Adient takes $11 million haircut in sale of planned downtown Detroit HQ property". Crain's Detroit Business. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
External links
- Marquette Building Detroit
- Google Maps location of Marquette Building
- "Emporis building ID 150951". Emporis. Archived from the original on May 13, 2015.
- "Marquette Building". SkyscraperPage.
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