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Large downtown Detroit office complex heads to auction March is going to be a busy month for prominent downtown Detroit real estate. On the same day the 600 Tower of the Renaissance Center goes to an online auction, a long-struggling office complex straddling downtown and Corktown will get the same treatment after a sale fell through….

Hudson’s Detroit says goodbye to its exterior construction elevator The buck hoist has been removed from the Hudson’s Detroit skyscraper, another step toward completing the 685-foot tower. “Buck hoist,” you may ask. (More like a WTH hoist, am I right? Those things terrify me.) The buck hoist — sometimes called a construction elevator —  is…

2 downtown Detroit parks to get big overhauls this year The Downtown Detroit Partnership has launched the first of two improvement projects planned for parks in the city’s central business district this year. A $3 million project to “soften” Capitol Park, the center of a historic neighborhood between Woodward Avenue and Washington Boulevard, began last…

Mostly vacant RenCen tower heading to auction A largely vacant office tower that’s part of the Renaissance Center complex on Detroit’s riverfront is heading to auction. The 334,000-square-foot 600 Tower — the downtown complex’s easternmost building — is set to hit the online auction block March 17-19 with a starting bid of $2.75 million, according…