After more than a decade, Detroit's famed David Whitney Building is finally getting her long-awaited face lift. The Detroit Free Press says a team, Whitney Partners LLC, will be the developer of the $82-million conversion of the Whitney into retail, apartments, and a boutique hotel. The long-vacant Whitney is an iconic structure downtown at Woodward and Grand Circus Park. Unfortunately, renovations in the 50s and 60s removed much of the neo-classic and Beaux Arts exterior design elements, but most interior decor--corbels, mosaic, decorative plaster--Read more
remains.