🎧 #200: The Story of Bedrock, Detroit, and NexusCon 2026

And then my last rapid fire question is about really why it's special to have you guys on the 200th episode is because you're a part of Nexus Con.

And Nexus Con is happening in the department at Hudson's, which is connected to Hudson's Tower.

Can either of you answer what those two buildings mean to you or what they are and why they're special?

Yeah, I'm from Chicago.

So a lot of other people have more connected stories that I have heard.

You know, even friends of mine, they used to come downtown Detroit, you know, 30 years ago, 40 years ago.

And that was like a big event.

It was like, you know, going to the Macy's parade, like back in the 50s, 60s.

Like it was a thing.

You got all dressed up.

You took a taxi downtown.

It was like a big deal.

And there are these iconic things that happen there year after year, especially around the holidays.

They would decorate the storefront windows, you know, and you would see all this very cool stuff.

you would see they had certain bears that they sold only at this location.

So it was a really iconic department store that we purchased after it was unfortunately demolished.

If we had owned it before they demolished it, I can guarantee you we wouldn't have demolished it and turned it into something really cool.

But we bought that property and out of that came really two iconic buildings that have changed the skyline here, which is also something that you don't often get a chance to be a part of.

Yeah, to add to that, so for me, growing up in Metro Detroit, I used to go to the Hudson's department store with my grandmother and grandfather back in the 70s and early 80s before it shut down.

And it would be an event like the Christmas story, like that kid getting pushed down the slide, right? They'd set it up like that, so it was a multi-story department store that you could buy anything at.

But what's really cool about it is I watched that place die.

and it go vacant and then get demolished.

But then I hired into Bedrock in 2016 and that was the first project they threw at me was reviewing design drawings, working with Burl Happold, doing the control scheme for the property.

And I've gone through many reiterations of the property where it went from close to a 70 story tower down to what it is currently, 46.

So it's gone through a lot of reiterations and where we landed fits.