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# From Fail Jail To U of M Innovation Center In 8 Years
- URL: https://www.dailydetroit.com/from-fail-jail-to-u-of-m-innovation-center-in-8-years/
- Published: 2019-10-31T10:37:01.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-25T22:31:29.000Z
- Author: Jer Staes
- Tags: #wordpress, #Import 2024-02-25 18:12, #admin

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The big news this week in development in Detroit is the announcement of a new University of Michigan Innovation Center, bankrolled and supported by billionaires Stephen Ross and Dan Gilbert.

The $300 million building on a $750 million campus will transform a site that was originally planned to be a jail.

But that old jail project was a mess and became the infamous Fail Jail through mismanagement and cost overruns.

So today’s show is a mini-audio documentary.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/47/f5/47f528d4-7214-4519-b2b2-26249e48460d/content/images/wordpress/2019/10/widenotextinnovation-1024x575.jpg)

The proposed U of M Innovation Center from afar.

After visiting the official unveiling, we take a look at the past – how we got here, back to 2011 – and then today, then the future of the site at Gratiot and I-375 in downtown Detroit.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/47/f5/47f528d4-7214-4519-b2b2-26249e48460d/content/images/wordpress/2019/10/innovation-close-1024x563.jpg)

Close up of the proposed Innovation Center. Photo via Bedrock

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