A fixture of the Detroit skyline is no longer.

No, not that one.

The tower crane at the Hudson’s Detroit development on Woodward Avenue was removed over the course of the weekend Oct. 11-13 after more than four years on the site.

According to Dan Gilbert’s Bedrock LLC real estate company, which is developing the $1.4 billion project approaching its eighth year of construction, the crane was 905 feet and had a lift capacity of nearly 106,000 pounds, or 53 tons.

Bedrock says now that the crane has been removed, the buck hoist — that’s essentially a temporary exterior elevator moving workers up and down floors — removal can start. That will allow for the last pieces of exterior glass to be installed, not long after the final pieces of exterior glass at the top-most portion of the skyscraper were installed last month.

Large cranes first arrived at the site in July 2020.

Completion is a long ways off. 

Although General Motors Co. is anticipated to move its headquarters from the Renaissance Center into the “block” portion of the development on the northern portion of the 2.3-acre site, the skyscraper — which has hotel and condo space by Edition — on the southern end isn’t expected to be completed until 2027.