'Out of left field': RenCen businesses caught off guard by GM departure

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It’s the icon of Detroit’s skyline and a symbol of the Motor City. But soon, the Renaissance Center will no longer be the headquarters of its owner, General Motors. It was a celebration inside the new Hudson's building on Woodward Avenue Monday as local elected officials along with GM and Bedrock Detroit executives announced the new development would soon become the new headquarters for General Motors. But for owners of businesses inside the RenCen, the mood was different.

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14 апр 2024

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@robertkaspert4092 2 месяца назад

The mistake GM made was making Mary Barra the head of GM.

@thefourhorsemen91 2 месяца назад

It looks like the building is giving the city the middle finger.

@circleinforthecube5170 Месяц назад

not the city, canada

@kevinmach730 2 месяца назад

Dan Gilbert has plans for the building. He owns the Hudson Tower that GM is moving too, and approached them about downsizing from the RenCen to a new property, likely to cutdown on building maintenance, management, and utility expenses, etc on a bunch of space they no longer need. I assume he will outright buy or lease/manage the RenCen for them with whatever plans he has in store for it.

@brandons2199 2 месяца назад

mixed-use seems the way to go

@kevinmach730 2 месяца назад

@@brandons2199 I agree. I think it's in good hands with a guy who has been investing in the city for a while now, and I don't think it's anything sad or something to be concerned about for the businesses in the area or what will become of the building. I honestly believe this will be good news all the way around.

@goldbrick2563 2 месяца назад

Gilbert probably wants to tear it down and put a new stadium

@markeyosef1579 Месяц назад

@@goldbrick2563What stadium? They already got 3 New sports venues downtown. That soundscrazy.

@Toyeboy89 2 месяца назад

Even before COVID it always seemed like an empty area when we visited there.

@bufordfrance8058 Месяц назад

There was less than 900 employees there, GM has no need for that building.

@DetroitNinja 2 месяца назад

Damn, that bites!😢

@seanconnor7607 Месяц назад

Some condos, and open the movie theater back up should help

@The_General_Zubas 2 месяца назад

The Renaissance Center would be amazing as a Mixed Use residential/Commercial building. I know living there would be amazing, If I had a job downtown!!!

@circleinforthecube5170 Месяц назад

already has a transit connection, imagine a county wide people mover connecting directly to a giant library/museum/apartment/shop complex

@The_General_Zubas Месяц назад

@@circleinforthecube5170 If they could get the people mover up Gratiot, and the Q Line up Woodward? That would make Public Transit a lot more Viable in Detroit

@sundancer3700 2 месяца назад

GM doesnt need that much space anymore, at its high point 10,000 people worked there, now down to 2000. Best bet is make most of it apartments but that will take a lot of work and many years to complete.

@AmericanArgonaut 2 месяца назад

Just watch they'll make half of it bars and restaurants and turn the rest into apartments. Odd to see it go. It's an icon of the Detroit skyline.

@kevinmach730 2 месяца назад

It's doubt the building itself is going anywhere. And GM is moving 1 mile away.

@UpUpDnDnLtRtLtRtBAStart 2 месяца назад

They wanted a cheaper lease and the new Hudson bldg did that. All backdoor deals.

@bufordfrance8058 2 месяца назад

GM doesn't lease the Ren-Cen, GM owns it!

@johnpenley 2 месяца назад

Crappy low paying jobs.....

@annettesurfer 2 месяца назад

A huge mistake was made back in 2013 when Mary Barra was selected to head GM.

@Mark-oy1wv Месяц назад

They’ll probably end up demolishing all of the towers except for the tall middle tower. No way that all of that space in those towers will ever be used again. The layout of the RenCen is terrible. Don’t know how that layout ever got the okay to move forward

@brucebeamon5460 2 месяца назад

The writing was on the wall when they CANCELED that major renovation back in 2016 and proceeded to start moving branches out to locations in other states and outside Detroit I feel the pain of those business owners being blindsided by this news I’ve felt for sometime with there GLOBAL REACH if they tried they could have kept that place fully occupied…. I heard someone on line saying it’s nearly feels like a ghost town in there … it was AWESOME and exciting working there in the late seventies . 🤔 are John Portman structures losing their luster ?

@kevinmach730 2 месяца назад

You're forgetting about remote workers also. I think this video or another said 80 percent of the staff there is remote some if not most days of the week. They may have been able to keep it occupied, but I don't think they want to be int he property management business. Enter Dan Gilbert, this is right up his alley. Hopefully he will renovate the building and do something interesting with it. I don't think the building lost it's luster so much as the juice isn't worth the squeeze for GM to put the money into it and try to fill it on top of that.

@goldbrick2563 2 месяца назад

John portman buildings arent beautiful or make you want to rest your eye on them so im not sure if the luster is lost and dont look at them long enough

@circleinforthecube5170 Месяц назад

@@goldbrick2563 i think they are, rencen completes detroits skyline, and even if he was a bad person he still knew how to build a absolutely stunning atrium, his buildings look better than all those boring 2010s/2020s era "futuristic" architecture, gen z already has a more forgiving opinion of 1960-80s architecture than previous generations, taste is changing

@goldbrick2563 Месяц назад

@@circleinforthecube5170 you think they are what? Beautiful? REN Cen looks like 5 black farm silos...at least make them light colored if youre going to build giant farm silos

@circleinforthecube5170 Месяц назад

@@goldbrick2563 yeah and farm silos kick ass whats your point

@BonnieHaynes-gg4nk 2 месяца назад

It is leaving the Ren Cen????.?.

@skullandbones1832 2 месяца назад

💚

@StacieC 2 месяца назад

God bless the life and memory of Reverend Frmr Chairperson Ben Maibach (deceased). The company he led built the building. He loved the Lord and served as the layman minister and elder at Apostolic Christian church in Livonia, served his large family, employees, helped international orphanages, elderly homes, childrens special needs homes. He included prayers in his board meetings. He was so wonderful. I look forward to seeing him someday again in heaven. He said ❤ If the Lord builds it, it will prosper.❤

@Harley.Davidson 2 месяца назад

😂 GM can't pay their rent! 🎉

@AmericanArgonaut 2 месяца назад

Yet theyre building a multi-million dollar building a mile away. This is in quiet design..

@sundancer3700 2 месяца назад

They dont pay rent as the own the Rencen.

@sundancer3700 2 месяца назад

@@AmericanArgonaut GM isn't building the Hudsons building where they will move to, they will just pay rent.

@vanpearsall 2 месяца назад

Maybe Toyota can take over

@bufordfrance8058 2 месяца назад

Toyota would never move anything to detroit.

@1TewBuMyShoe 2 месяца назад

Nope. They moved their North American HQ to the Dallas area a few years ago.

@bufordfrance8058 2 месяца назад

Toyota is in Novi, there's no way Toyota want's anything to do with detroit!

@michellekirwan-woods7623 Месяц назад

GM isn't selling the building.

@ivanchennyc 2 месяца назад

Make it affordable housing

@blueboat9581 2 месяца назад

Boo hoo. The rich restaurant is losing customers. I might shed a tear

@TheAS687 2 месяца назад

The RENCEN should be torn down. Build something new and fresh.

@circleinforthecube5170 Месяц назад

yeah forget architectural preservation, city character, history, a generic 2020s era pseudo-futuristic glass jenga tower is much better

@coreythompsonTheOneandOnly 2 месяца назад

Remember the song "Taking Care of Business"? "Concerned about the uncertainty"? Yea Aite 😂😅"came outta left ⬅️ field"? Yea ok, more like, We're going out of business!! "Someone got to fill up that building 🏢🏫 with tenants" you definitely aren't from Chicago Illinois with that type of thinking 🤔💬💭 The only thing"someones got to do" is live free and die hard. People are "kind of dazed"😳? Well Detroit prepare yourself for the center to become a great big empty eyesore where no one works and the building 🏢🏫 just takes up space and it cost money to just leave it sitting there. One by one every business is going to leave that building 🏢🏫 because any business that tries to stay wont be able to afford the rent. Live and learn, every person on this video is to old 🗝️ 🧓🏻🧑🏻‍🦳to be this naive. Just cut your losses, cut your ties and just go. "They talk very little about what the future is of the center". Save your self respect because when people make comments like that while looking at the writing on the walls, they just look sorry, not sorrowful 😔 just plain 😐 sorry weak and stupid.