# @metrotimes on Instagram

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- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/79394181-metrotimes-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-05-06T11:51:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Detroit Metro Times (@metrotimes) — https://gondola.cc/metrotimes

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"My favorite Renaissance Center moment came in the mid-1980s when Detroit Mayor Coleman Young spoke there at a long-forgotten public event," our columnist Joe Lapointe writes. "The RenCen was a proud achievement for the Motor City’s chief executive in that era and it had just undergone one of its periodic interior renovations."⁠
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“It’s beautiful,” the mayor said, “but I still can’t find my way around this damn place.” Young smiled and chuckled as he said it — as he often did when kidding on the square.⁠
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Now that General Motors has announced plans to abandon its RenCen headquarters for the new Hudson’s building — while the office vacancy rate grows downtown — metro Detroiters are openly contemplating the future of a signature local landmark.⁠
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See link in bio to read the full column.⁠
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📸: Meghan Hess, Flickr Creative Commons⁠
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#detroit #metrodetroit #generalmotors #gm #hudsonsbuilding #rencen #renaissancecenter #detroitarchitecture #colemanyoung #downtowndetroit

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rencen, detroit, colemanyoung, gm, metrodetroit, hudsonsbuilding, detroitarchitecture, generalmotors, downtowndetroit, renaissancecenter

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