CaseyC
replied, "The rumour of the Madison Lenox being torn
down to make way for an Ilitch-owned Embassy Suites has
been kicking around for a couple of years now. When I
first heard back then, I contacted Al Sebastien of Olympia
Development and he had no comment only to say they were
"master planning" their entire holdings in the
Stadia region. I found it disheartening that they would
tear down the Madison Lenox and erect an ugly cookie-cutter
suburban box embassy suites hotel with all the charm of
a Southfield office complex...particularly on Madison,
with its green tree-lined boulevard, the restored DAC,
Opera House, Gem/Century Theaters and Music Hall....I
shudder to picture how an Embassy Suites would fit in
to that architectural mix."
HEARD
ON THE FORUM
Detroit
rises
started a thread on the fate of the
Madison Lennox Hotel
with this post, "This is based on Channels
7's detnow.com web site. The abandoned Madison-Lennox
Hotel will be the new site for an Embassy Suites Hotel
with at least 175 rooms. This is in line with Detroit's
hosting the '06 Super Bowl XL at Ford Field on Brush and
Adams."