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Hudson’s Detroit skyscraper exterior reaches completion The exterior of the Hudson’s Detroit tower is officially complete. Tuesday, workers installed the final glass panel on the 47th floor of the 685-foot-tall building, Dan Gilbert’s Bedrock LLC’s announced.  The tower at 1208 Woodward Ave. includes a total of 4,677 glass panels on its exterior, ranging from 11…

Feds could sell 3 downtown Detroit properties Three properties in downtown Detroit have landed on a new U.S. General Services Administration list of federally owned real estate that could be sold in the future. The list includes 443 “non-core” properties across 47 states that the GSA posted on its website Tuesday and are a part of President…

RenCen plan adds observation deck, cuts taxpayer costs by up to $100M The $1.6 billion Renaissance Center redevelopment plan by two of Detroit’s most prominent companies would include a new Willis Tower-like observation deck — and the project would likely cost taxpayers far less than initially pitched, an official said Thursday. The GM-Bedrock effort to demolish…

AI is coming to work. Here’s where white-collar labor will be disrupted the most. White-collar jobs are most at risk of being impacted by ChatGPT and generative AI, unlike previous automation technologies that primarily affected routine, blue-collar work.  In Michigan, metro Detroit and the counties home to the state’s biggest universities will see the highest…