But when you look at the economics of building a theater and moving this one, they're similar."Īnd Charles Forbes told Crain's: "If nothing else, what we've tried to illustrate is just because we have new stadia, we don't have to make a prairie but can blend the old with the new.
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James Forbes, his son, told the Detroit Free Press in 1997: "There hasn't been one person that we've explained this to who doesn't think it's a crazy idea. The downtown YMCA Building, which Forbes owned, was torn down, as were other smaller buildings.įorbes estimated around that time that moving the Gem/Century property would cost $2 million to $3 million, while the Elwood cost $400,000 to $500,000. When the Detroit/Wayne County Stadium Authority was considering tearing down some of those properties that were in the path of Comerica Park in the 1990s, Forbes negotiated a deal to move the Elwood Bar & Grill he also owned as well as the Gem Theatre and Century Club complex, Crain's reported in April. after more than 30 years working in dealership real estate for the Dearborn-based automaker, according to the Detroit Historical Society. In the 1980s, Forbes began assembling buildings like the State Theatre (now The Fillmore Detroit), the Fox Theatre, the Gem Theatre and Century Club, the Colony Club and others following retirement from Ford Motor Co.
29 at age 92.Īn online obituary says that over the span of the Bloomfield Hills resident's career, he put together more than 40 properties for renovation and had seven placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Charles Forbes, who was a driving force in the preservation of historic Detroit theaters and other buildings in the 1980s and 1990s, died Sept.
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