VIDEO: Last Ride Under Pontiac’s Phoenix Center as Demolition and Redevelopment Begin

Video: Final trip below the Phoenix Middle of Pontiac begin as a demolition and redevelopment

(Crystal A. Proxmire, March 31, 2025)

Pontiac, Mi-it Phoenix Middle-a long-term occasion location that dominated the Pontiac Skyline together with his few cone-shaped awning.

Floor broke to construct the Phoenix Middle in 1979, and though it was practical within the early 2000s, it organized quite a lot of live shows and group occasions. It was designed to be half of a giant normal revitalization within the metropolis middle, together with workplace buildings, lodges and retailer locations. Nevertheless, the whole imaginative and prescient has by no means been realized. The realm ended with two workplace buildings and an condominium constructing, plus greater than 2,000 parking areas within the deck below the live performance location.

The Phoenix Middle constructing closed and fell into disrepair, whereas he was additionally entangled in a lawsuit. However now Oakland County has purchased the middle and the 2 workplace buildings with plans to demolish the middle and substitute it with a group park, and to redecorate the workplace buildings to maneuver some authorities capabilities to town middle. Oakland County has a webpage with steady data on https://www.oakgov.com/government/county-executive/special-projects/downownn-pontiac.

Auburn/Orchard Lake Highway, which runs below the middle, is now closed between Southbound Woodward Avenue and Northbound Woodward Avenue to finish the damaged connections of Nut previous to the demolition of the Phoenix Middle.

Oakland County Occasions obtained video of a last trip alongside Auburn Highway by means of the tunnel of the Phoenix Middle, which exhibits folks within the middle who themselves document the most recent reminiscences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEO8FPMOUTE

The demolition of the Phoenix Middle is predicted to take 8 months and can instantly begin after the damaged utilities.

The reconstruction is predicted to happen after the demolition has been accomplished and is predicted to take 4-10 months.

The highway closing is predicted to take a complete of 12-18 months.

Go to updates on these and different highway development tasks within the space www.tinyurl.com/ponticoroad structure

Go to updates on the event of Oakland County within the middle of Pontiac https://www.oakgov.com/government/county-executive/special-projects/downownn-pontiac

Listed below are earlier tales in regards to the Phoenix Middle:

County Board approves the acquisition of actual property within the neighborhood of Phoenix Middle, plans for organising places of work within the middle of Pontiac

Highlights of the County handle of Government Dave Coulter

Below the floor: Historical past and potential way forward for the underground Clinton River in Pontiac

Orchard Lake Highway below Phoenix Middle is now open once more

Phoenix Middle Order Go well with Rejected

Destiny of the Phoenix Middle: Public Get Tour (Video)

Pontiac receives skilled recommendation on the event of the middle

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