Marquette Building (Detroit)
United States historic place
Marquette Building
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243 West Congress Street
Detroit , Michigan |
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Coordinates | 42°19′43.5″N 83°2′55″W / 42.328750°N 83.04861°W / 42.328750; -83.04861 |
Part of | Detroit Financial District ( ID09001067 ) |
Designated CP | December 14, 2009 |
The Marquette Building is a historic building located in downtown Detroit , Michigan . It was built in 1905, and stands at 243 West Congress Street. 211 West Fort Street lies to the north, TCF Center to the west, Fort Pontchartrain a Wyndham Hotel to the south, and Fort Shelby Hotel to the east. The building was for a time owned by Mexican billionaire, Carlos Slim . [1]
The high-rise stands at 10 stories in height, and is used for retail , offices , and a restaurant . It was designed in the Chicago School architectural style , and is mainly made of brick .
This building formerly contained the Office of the Michigan Secretary of State on its ground floor. 400 Monroe Associates saved this building from demolition in 1979, completing a careful historic preservation redevelopment in 1982.
Adient Plc announced on Wednesday, November 30, 2016, it had acquired the building to house the headquarters of its global seating business. [2] Those plans have been cancelled as of June, 2018. [3]
The building is now owned by Detroit-based real estate company Sterling Group which plans on leasing the space. [4]
References
- ↑ Dolia Estevez. "Billionaire Carlos Slim Listing Fifth Ave Mansion For $80 Million, Almost Two Times What He Paid" . Forbes . Retrieved May 9, 2015 .
- ↑ "Adient announces plans to establish Detroit global headquarters bringing 500 jobs to the city" . Adient . Retrieved November 30, 2016 .
- ↑ "Auto supplier Adient cancels move to downtown Detroit. Here's why" . Detroit Free Press . Retrieved July 5, 2018 .
- ↑ "Adient takes $11 million haircut in sale of planned downtown Detroit HQ property" . Crain's Detroit Business . Retrieved November 7, 2018 .
External links
- Marquette Building Detroit
- Google Maps location of Marquette Building
- "Emporis building ID 150951" . Emporis . Archived from the original on May 13, 2015.
- "Marquette Building" . SkyscraperPage .
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