Streetscape improvements around the old Statler Hilton Hotel site in the Grand Circus Park neighborhood of downtown are finished.

New sidewalks, curbs, streetlights, trees and grass have been planted around and on the site. The work represents the finishing touches on the $8 million Washington Boulevard streetscape project between Park Avenue and West Lafayette Boulevard and the demolition of the old Statler Hilton Hotel.

Although grass has been planted, the fences surrounding it will remain up to keep people and automobiles off the site.

There is no definite timetable for redevelopment of the site, but it has been mentioned in the media as a possible site for a new Rock Financial/Quicken Loans headquarters.

The city tore down the Statler Hilton Hotel and all but one of the surrounding buildings in 2005. The hotel took up most of the block bordered by Washington, Park, Bagley Street and Clifford Street.

Source: Peter Zeiler, business development representative for the Detroit Economic Development Corporation, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and www.emporis.com.

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