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Famed Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston’s Fort Pierce home is now protected, but its legacy still needs a lifeline ...
Roger Lennert, 21, a technical-creative writer for Ex-Cell-0 Corp., was one of 353 persons who entered "Renaissance Center," but the reasons he gave for the name were judged the best.
GM will move its corporate headquarters from the Renaissance Center to Hudson’s Detroit on Woodward Avenue in 2025, the company’s fourth relocation since 1911. Sweepstakes of the Month.
GM still has some employees based in the Renaissance Center, but just a fraction of the 6,000 or so it had stationed there pre-pandemic, according to Crain’s data.
The Renaissance Center may become the first building designed by architect John Portman to have its massive city-within-a-city design overhauled.
GM bought the RenCen in 1996 to be its world headquarters. Previously, GM was located in Detroit's New Center area in what was then called the General Motors Building, now known as Cadillac Place.
DETROIT (AP) — Two towers at Detroit's iconic Renaissance Center would be razed and the complex converted to a mix of housing and offices under an ambitious $1.6 billion plan announced Monday.
Construction on the Renaissance Center campus began in 1973 and was initially expected to take place in three phases. During phase one, the 73-story hotel and four 39-story office towers were built.
The Renaissance Center's construction was far from the start of any kind of Detroit renaissance, yet it did have a huge impact on Downtown, even if that impact was plainly superficial.
Four months after Tower 100 at the Renaissance Center opened in July 1976, the maker of a fireproofing chemical called Monokote said its product would sheath the internal steel beams of Detroit's ...
The Renaissance Center was created in 1999 part of the foundation’s mission. The cost was $18 million building with $7 million of fixtures, furniture, equipment and technology.