This was posted over on SSC.com and I found it pretty interesting, it is a magazine article printed in 1991 containing all of the buildings which were proposed but never built in downtown Detroit. Â It makes you feel better when you think in terms of Omaha and the (in comparison) buildings which never were built or scaled down in heighth (UP, Hilton, more recently.)
Here is a link to the story:
Detroit skyline that could been
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oh ok well thats not a huge scaling down at least.. i would have been irritated if it was suppose to be 30 something stories and we got 19 lol.. thats a pretty interesting article.. i just looked through it and as far as i can tell NONE of the stuff they mention in the article was ever built.. which does make sense because for as big as detroit is they have a pretty lame skyline :|
-adam
-adam
The height of the U.P. was scaled down, but not the square footage. They wanted larger square footage per floor, which was more important to their internal functions than having a building with more levels, and making a statement with height.
He said "They are some big, ugly red brick buildings"
...and then they were gone.
...and then they were gone.