New rendering of Greektown’s pedestrian friendly streetscape, now underway

[u/DetroitDevUpdates]

[u/Future_Attempt_3672]

Holy shit, trees???

[u/Outside-Degree1247 → u/Future_Attempt_3672]

Downtown desperately needs more trees. So many streets are just 100% concrete and aren’t very nice to walk along.

[u/WayneFookinRooney → u/Outside-Degree1247]

So goddamn wide too. I couldn’t imagine having to cross Woodward with a cane or walker.

[u/No-Berry3914 → u/Outside-Degree1247]

i don't know who is responsible for downtown street trees but they are doing a bad job of it. lots of trees that used to be there, i.e. along Woodward have been removed

[u/Blueparrotlet1 → u/No-Berry3914]

It’s ridiculous. There’s huge planter boxes on Woodward with no trees that used to have trees. What the fuck is going on?

[u/No-Berry3914 → u/Blueparrotlet1]

honestly it seems like as soon as they get big they become inconvenient for... whatever reason... and then they're removed. we could have had nice trees there if we had simply let them grow in place

[u/Outside-Degree1247 → u/No-Berry3914]

The trees fronting OCM were allowed to fully mature. Those have a great canopy I often see people hanging out under. Shame it’s only for one block.

[u/explodingenchilada → u/No-Berry3914]

I can't speak for downtown, but it can be a micro-instance of 'not in my front yard'. I've seen this before in the redesign of other commercial corridors. Business and property owners want a canopy but don't want a tree blocking their signage and entrance from view for car traffic. This leads to no one having a tree in front of their property and no trees at all.

[u/kurisu7885 → u/Outside-Degree1247]

Agreed. Been down there a few times and more greenery would be great.

[u/j0mbie → u/Future_Attempt_3672]

Those trees will either destroy the brick or concrete surrounding their trunks, or just die. You can't ring trees that closely.

Picture 2 looks good for the tree, but the other ones are doomed to failure.

Honest question, does this street need to be open to vehicle traffic? Removing that would give more room for both trees and people. But maybe it's the only way these businesses can get deliveries?

[u/MrManager17]

Looks great! I love how they rendered New Parthenon back into existence.

[u/graveybrains → u/MrManager17]

😭

[u/QuietlySmirking → u/MrManager17]

God I miss them. They had the best saganaki.

[u/RevolutionaryLog9542 → u/MrManager17]

Bring back grecian gardens

[u/xfilesfan69 → u/MrManager17]

Bring back Laikon Cafe!

[u/zam1138 → u/xfilesfan69]

Laikon my beloved! The octopus… Golden Fleece is the new go to…

[u/xfilesfan69 → u/zam1138]

Good to know. Maybe that’ll be the place to go after my daughter’s baptism next month!

[u/RevolutionaryLog9542 → u/MrManager17]

Bring back grecian gardens

[u/chairman-me0w]

Where’s the fighting Chaldeans ?

[u/mxjxs91 → u/chairman-me0w]

Chaldean here, I upvoted. 😂

[u/MrManager17 → u/chairman-me0w]

Got a chuckle out of me.

[u/chairman-me0w → u/MrManager17]

Thanks :)

[u/Yoda___ → u/chairman-me0w]

Behind the trees — that’s what they’re for man keep up.

[u/HurricaneStiz]

So they're showing cars in front of Fishbone's on Monroe, but they're also showing bollards blocking off Monroe at the intersection with Randolph. Am I missing something?

[u/Outside-Degree1247 → u/HurricaneStiz]

The bollards will be retractable. Likely open to cars during the day and closed to all but pedestrians during busy evening hours and events.

[u/HurricaneStiz → u/Outside-Degree1247]

Retractable bollards, that's pretty ambitious!

[u/nathansikes → u/HurricaneStiz]

Yeah I'll give them a few weeks until they're busted or rammed into

[u/Warhawk2052 → u/nathansikes]

Or someone parks on it

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_CATS_PAWS → u/HurricaneStiz]

My understanding is it will be a one way street, and bollards will be placed when the street is closed off during festivals

[u/FlaniganWackerMan]

Hope this turns out to be more reality than LCA... It looks great and well overdue. Do it all over downtown.

[u/Blueparrotlet1 → u/FlaniganWackerMan]

It’s literally under construction right now…

[u/FlaniganWackerMan → u/Blueparrotlet1]

I meant the rendering. We all saw what was promised for the district Detroit and we got.

[u/ornryactor → u/FlaniganWackerMan]

district Detroit

I'll say it until I'm blue in the face: we need to stop repeating the grifter's propaganda as though it is a thing that actually exists. They've spent a decade selling that snake oil, and every time they're halfheartedly confronted about it, they invent some new excuse, whip out a new development timeline, get some new renderings online, and then resume being parking-lot slumlords who sit around doing jack shit for another 3 years until somebody else remembers and confronts them again.

[u/Hopeful-Flounder-203]

You can almost see the LED Red Wings logo on top of LCA and a packed District Detroit from these renderings.

[u/RevolutionaryLog9542 → u/Hopeful-Flounder-203]

[u/ShippingNotIncluded]

Just close off the street to cars. Making it that narrow and still allowing cars to drive down is a disaster waiting to happen

[u/destindil]

Definitely took some artistic liberties here. No chuds street fighting after a few losses at the casino.

[u/gorcbor19 → u/destindil]

The artist could have at least sketched in a bucket drummer on the corner!

[u/fitnesscakes]

We need a big Greek festival

[u/Thiscommentissatire]

Door dashers in shambles

[u/aoxit]

Looks good. Bet some idiot still gonna find a way to do 50 down that street

[u/FudgeTerrible → u/aoxit]

which begs the question, why even have driving on that street? Pretty stupid if you ask me.

[u/P3RC365cb]

Looking for Bazookies III so Monroe can become Detroit's version of Bourbon Street. Looking forward to the pavers in a decade.

[u/__0_k__]

Just get rid of cars all together.

[u/aselinger → u/__0_k__]

I think they should allow only the cars with mufflers removed and teeth-shaking bass.

[u/T1mberVVolf]

Not bad but these images don’t quite line up 😂

These renderings are always was more in depth than the actual project but just closing down Monroe and making it walkable is good enough of an idea as it is. Images 1 and 3 look like they are actually possible.

[u/tstone1477]

😂😂😂😂😂

[u/Warhawk2052]

Fremont Street vibes

[u/niewinski]

Is one street permanently cutoff to traffic or is the rendering showing it could be for events?

[u/ElCoolMagnefico]

This is gonna make it a lot harder to do drive by's

[u/RevolutionaryLog9542 → u/ElCoolMagnefico]

And wild street brawls.

[u/l5555l]

Why don't they just not allow cars at all on that stretch

[u/JeremieLoyalty]

They trying make Detroit look like Vegas

[u/Duffman66CMU]

So cars or no cars?

[u/Gn0mesayin → u/Duffman66CMU]

Yes, cars or no cars, it can do both

[u/Pigs101]

What you don't see if the metal detectors right outside of frame.

[u/Izzoh]

what they aren't taking this time to install permanent police towers?

[u/BackgroundExternal18]

10/10

[u/reb6]

Oh wow, this could be so cool!

[u/AlmostSunnyinSeattle]

I sure love artist renditions. Really gets the hopes up so that disappointment is extra sweet.

[u/beegorton616]

Just a heads up Deluxe Bar refuses to pay some employees hourly wages and still to this day owes many former employees money. Don’t support.

[u/RickyTheRickster]

Reminds me of the findly market in Cincinnati

[u/BaconGivesMeALardon]

needs more places to duck and cover for weekends.

[u/FudgeTerrible]

Why are there still cars??? why not close just a single street entirely to cars? I think there should be a lot more pedestrianized areas, especially if there are a ton of restaurants or bars, I think restaurants should be able to put tables in the street and sell their food or beverages, imagine what it could do for business.

[u/giddycat50]

Thought I heard they were investing millions into this project. Blocking the street off with bollards is like 10k. What else are they doing?

[u/harry_crane → u/giddycat50]

These renderings alone were probably 10k

[u/giddycat50 → u/harry_crane]

Lol

[u/zomiaen → u/giddycat50]

They've completely torn up the streets. And I mean torn up. Not cheap to do that.

[u/Ferniekicksbutt]

I'm so hard rn

[u/BlondieBtch117 → u/Ferniekicksbutt]

And I'm so dry thinking of you being so hard right now.

[u/altacct3]

Pic 4 is pretty accurate. Car speeding up to make the yellow with family of 5 crossing right behind from the far side of Randolph.

Hey and they put some tables in front of ham shop.

[u/detroitragace]

Smart and looks great. It’ll be much better than having to dodge hellcats trying to cross the street.

[u/VictorianAuthor]

Amazing. This should be baseline minimum design in terms of pedestrian prioritization in nearly all urban streets

[u/Beginning_Night1575]

Do it.

[u/Detroiter4Ever]

It hasn't been "Greek" since the 90s. Too little, too late.