DETROIT (AP) — Before the arrival of sprawling suburban malls featuring amusement park rides and stores peddling anything from jeans to jelly beans, there was Hudson's in downtown Detroit.

The towering department store mirrored the growth and opulence of the auto-manufacturing town, but its fortunes — like the city’s — soured with population shifts and economic downturns.

In 1998, more than a century after J.L. Hudson's Co. opened shop, the 25-story building was demolished, leaving — literally and figuratively — a deep hole as a reminder of what Detroit used to be.

Until this year.

Standing on the Woodward Avenue site are a gleaming 45-story tower and a 12-story office building. The new 1.5 million-square-foot (140,000-square-meter) Hudson's Detroit development also contains retail s

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