Culture
A Historic Detroit Hotel Is Imploded to Make Way for a Hockey Arena
The site will become the new home for the Red Wings.
Crews recently leveled the 13-story Park Avenue Hotel in Detroit, a 1920s-era luxury hotel designed by Louis Kamper, the architect who also birthed the city’s iconic Book-Cadillac Hotel. The building had long quit the hospitality business, having transitioned from a home for seniors in the 1950s to a rehab facility in the 1980s. That operation was shut down in 2003, leading to a plunge into decrepitude, reports the Detroit Free Press: