DETROIT — Bedrock has completed the 12-story office building at 1240 Woodward Ave. that is part of the Hudson’s Detroit development. Designed by SHoP Architects, the building adds more than 400,000 square feet of Class A office space, retail space, an event venue and a rooftop lounge on the 12th floor that will open in 2026. The project’s 56,000-square-foot event space, dubbed The Department at Hudson’s, opened earlier this year. Bedrock expects to open the 45-story tower component of Hudson’s Detroit in 2027. The 685-foot skyscraper, the second-tallest building in the state, will include dining space, The Detroit EDITION hotel and The Residences at The Detroit EDITION, rounding out the development’s total square footage to 1.5 million square feet. Hudson’s Detroit is the redevelopment of the former J.L. Hudson Department Store, which once stood as the tallest department store in the world, according to Bedrock. The store shuttered in 1983 and was imploded in 1998, according to Crain’s Detroit Business. Construction on Hudson’s Detroit began in December 2017. The development faced design changes, delays and project costs that ballooned to more than $1 billion. “Ten years in the making, Hudson’s Detroit is elevating downtown and creating space for the …
