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The J. L. Hudson Company (commonly known simply as Hudson's) was an upscale retail department store chain based in Detroit, Michigan.Hudson's flagship store, on Woodward Avenue in Downtown Detroit (demolished October 24, 1998), [1] was the tallest department store in the world in 1961, [2] and, at one time, claimed to be the second-largest department store, after Macy's, in the United States ...
The J. L. Hudson Building ("Hudson's") was a department store located at 1206 Woodward Avenue in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It was constructed beginning in 1911, with additions throughout the years, before being "completed" in 1946, and named after the company's founder, Joseph Lowthian Hudson .
Hudson's Detroit is an under-construction mixed-use development located in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, United States. Located on the former site of J.L. Hudson's Flagship Store , it is expected to be the second tallest building in Detroit as well as Michigan, at 208.7 meters (685 ft) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and to be completed in 2024.
As a little girl in Detroit, Kimberly Dowdell wanted to fix the old Hudson building. Today, she is president of the American Institute of Architects. Renowned architect was 11 years old when ...
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Joseph Lowthian Hudson (October 17, 1846 – July 5, 1912), a.k.a. J. L. Hudson, was the merchant who founded the Hudson's department store in Detroit, Michigan.Hudson also supplied the seed capital for the establishment, in 1909, of Roy D. Chapin's automotive venture, which Chapin named the Hudson Motor Car Company in honor of J. L. Hudson.
The Hudson’s site at 1208 Woodward Ave. in downtown Detroit on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024. Contact JC Reindl: 313-378-5460 or jcreindl@freepress.com . Follow him on X @ jcreindl .
Northland Center became the first major postwar development in suburban Detroit and was the first of many forays into the suburbs by Hudson's. Some $30,000,000 was invested in constructing the facility. The first-year gross for the Northland Hudson's was $88 million. [5] The shopping center opened to much fanfare.