Park Avenue Hotel

03 / The story of this place

What was here?

It was one of three 13-story residential hotels Louis Kamper designed for Lew Tuller on Park Avenue, opening in 1924 with 252 rooms, hide-away wall beds and a Tudor-style lobby. Tuller lost it to the Security Trust Co. in 1928. In 1957 the Salvation Army took it over as the Eventide senior residence, and in the 1980s turned it into the Harbor Light Center, described as the country's largest facility of its kind for homeless people and addiction treatment. After the Salvation Army left in 2003, scrappers stripped it; when the Ilitch family built its arena it agreed to save the Eddystone but razed the Park Avenue, which was imploded at 8 a.m. on July 11, 2015.

• 252 rooms, 13 stories, 1924
• Part of Lew Tuller's Park Avenue trio
• Imploded July 11, 2015

Former names

Park Avenue Hotel (1924–1957) · Eventide Residence (Salvation Army) (from 1957) · Harbor Light Center (Salvation Army) (1980s–2003)

Architect

Louis Kamper

What’s there now?

Part of the Little Caesars Arena complex; the Park Avenue was imploded to make room for an arena loading dock.