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Photo of the Week: Detroit’s Renaissance Center

December 28, 2025 by Deborah Edwards-Oñoro
Tall gray and silver building towers rise from a distance, in the foreground a paved path curves around a wetland area bordered by brown, dead stems of native plants.

I remember when the Renaissance Center (RenCen) was built in downtown Detroit in the 1970’s. The “city-within-a-city” urban renewal project along the Detroit River was the talk of our area when it opened in 1977.

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