Kmart Headquarters Demolition November 16, 2023 | Troy, Michigan [4K]
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The demolition of the former Kmart Headquarters in Troy, Michigan.
The building was built in 1969 and the Kresge company moved its headquarters there from Detroit in 1972.
After Kmart purchased Sears, they moved their headquarters to Chicago.
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Such an incredible waste that a 50 year office building cannot be repurposed.
There is a ton of empty office space in the area. However, apartment buildings get sold out before they are even completed. So, I'm guessing, that's what will go up there. Also, I know people who worked there, and said it was a nightmare building to be in.
Very true and sad indeed.
The fact that it was 50 years old says alot. It's easier and more cost effective to tear a building down, and rebuild fresh, vs rehabbing it
@@hint012250 years old it probably has asbestos in it.
@@hint0122 More like 60 years old.
We're getting old. The past is gone.
I worked at this majestic HQ building from 1982 until it closed. Sad to see it go.
I'm sad to see it go too. Thanks for watching!
absolutely insane video. looks like a warzone when you first ascend over the dilapidated curtain wall and you see the rubble between the towers. the demolition of this building was a huge influence on my decision to make my senior architecture design project a museum (restoring/adding to the reynolds building in southfield to rescue that) dedicated to the preservation of Modernist architecture. thank you for documenting this destruction as it was happening, it's very important to do so.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching!
Sad and really unnecessary that we see this happen. A corporate raider came in and squeezed two major retail corporations (KMart and Sears) out of every dollar it could, cannibalized them and then left the bones for someone else to clean up. Edward Lampert should be stripped of all his wealth for what he did to employees of these great companies.
I could not have said that better. So true.
Originally known as SS Kresge Headquarters (not Kmart until they officially adopted Kmart as their corporate name in 1977).... and this was dated as opening in 1972 as others have said. SS Kresge Headquarters was originally in Detroit ( 2727 2nd Ave, Detroit, MI 48201)... As history states: the retailer would formally change its corporate name to Kmart in 1977. Five years earlier, in 1972, Kresge abandoned this building for a new 906,000-square-foot headquarters in suburban Troy
that wasBUILT BEING A SUPER POLLUCTION in to TROY,MICHIGAN
wow, i use to drive past that place in my servicing days... it was huge. never thought it would come down like that... i'm 75.
What many people fail to realize Office Buildings much like Hospitals that were built 30, 40, or 50 years ago weren't built to house all infrastructure that a Modern Office Building or Hospital has to support. Even building built 20 and 10 years ago have trouble finding room for all the infrastructure that is needed and been added since they were built to support their business. Kinda like many fast food places will demolition a closed location rather than repurpose for another outlet. Yes, I agree it seems wasteful, but the reality is it better to tear down, and build a new building capable for the needs of it new customers.
This was no ordinary office building...the Kmart headquarters opened in 1972, and its design by Detroit-based architectural firm Smith, Hinchman & Grylls Associates won numerous architectural awards. Hopefully, whatever is newly constructed there will use renewable energy.
906,000 Sq ft isn't enough for today's infrastructure?
The buildings were so cool, I guarantee whatever replaces this iconic structure won’t be nearly as unique.
I bet you're right.
What a coincidence, it was just announced that U of M bought some land at the location.
Fun fact, the interior police station scenes in the Red Dawn remake with Josh Peck and Chris Hemsworth were filmed inside this place. That’s why there was a giant “Police” sign inside.
Yeah that's pretty cool!
end of an era
Like the packard ruins, i find it sad when so many put there heart and soul into these places, yet theyre just ripped to shreds. With all this AI and such, im glad i wont be around to see whats left hundreds of years from now. Fingers 🤞 for future generations, hopefully im wrong.
The Packard Plant is a former factory built in the early 1900s... and it is several miles away from the Detroit neighborhoods that are being revitalized. Both of those reasons doomed it in the end. However, this architecturally significant office building is in a thriving neighborhood in Troy. Apparently its unique architecture also doomed it because it was considered difficult to repurpose.
I find it sad as well.
Any idea what's replacing it on site?
Fascinating! Both K-mart and Target Stores can both sorta claim Detroit as their home town! I never knew that! (Target can trace ancestry to Detroit's Hudson's Department Store.)
Target was the discount division of Dayton-Hudson Company (Dayton's in Minneapolis, Hudson's in Detroit). It outlived both parents, became Target Corporation when the big department stores failed and is based in the Twin Cities.
@@rjmcallister1888 thanks for that info; I lived and worked in metro Detroit and never put those things together; I was occasionally a customer of Hudson's, never knew Target overlapped the others. Where I live now, Target is too far away.
TARGET is OWNEd by FRENCH ARABS NEVER to DO with DETROIT>
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Thank you 🙏
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Transformco. Owner of the carcasses of KMart and Sears. Transforming formerly good retailers into empty space and empty lots. The Blue Light has been turned off.
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The K-Mart headquarters was that huge? Really?
Burning a blue light in effigy😢
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