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RENAISSANCE CENTER GROUNDBREAKING. Powerful business interests joined together to form the Detroit Renaissance Group. This organization saw investment in the downtown area as a way to attract business back to the city and create jobs for all.
The Renaissance Center, commonly known as the RenCen, is a complex of seven connected skyscrapers in downtown Detroit, Michigan, United States. The Renaissance Center complex is on the Detroit International Riverfront and is owned and used by General Motors as its world headquarters.
Yet in the midst of this social and economic collapse, Detroit planned an urban renaissance, a civic rebirth inspired by dramatic changes to the built environment. These changes were determined by the interests of a handful of Detroit's business and civic leaders, backed by a progrowth local government. The idea for a nonprofit organization ...
In 1970 Henry Ford teamed up with 7 other leading business men to form Detroit Renaissance a non profit development organization with the purpose of stimulating new building activity in the city. The group announced the first project in 1971, the Renaissance Center.
21 kwi 2024 · GM’s captive finance arm, GM Financial, is based in Fort Worth, Texas. But its Detroit operations are housed in the RenCen, where about 230 of its employees work, said GM Financial spokesperson...
The crown jewel of the business collective was the Detroit Renaissance Center, a state-of-the-art structure to symbolize rebirth and serve as a catalyst for renewal. Image from the groundbreaking ceremony of the Detroit Renaissance Center.
3 paź 2024 · We know that changes are coming for the Renaissance Center, we just don't know what they entail. A demolition? A remodeling? We asked metro Detroiters what they want to see.
