Penobscot Building — Attraction in Detroit

This is a beautiful iconic building with so much potential. Unfortunately, the owner refuses to invest the money into this building to renovate and bring it up to speed with the rest of the high rises downtown. I have worked in an office in this building for three years and it's a nightmare - neglected to the point of being a safety hazard. Only one or two out of the 6+ elevators are in working order so it takes over 5 mins just to get up to the office at times, maybe more during busy times like lunch or end of the day. People have gotten stuck in the elevators and had to be rescued by the fire department. Amenities for tenants are basically nonexistent - security, maintenance, valet and janitorial all suck.

Pay Penobscot a visit to see the architecture. would not recommend renting an office in...

Historic and well-preserved inside with a few updates that would be nice. I worked here over the summer, and it was pretty hot and sticky in the hallways. There is an elevator I tend to avoid because it looks so rickety and haven't had its burned-out light bulbs changed in a while. Other than that, the security guards are very friendly; on the first day of my job, I was a tad bit lost, and a friendly security guard explained which elevators to take and how to get to the office I needed. There's a sandwich shop, donut shop, Greek restaurant, ping pong restaurant, and some Detroit shops inside the Penobscot building for your workday...

If you use the public parking the valet public parking out of this building make sure you take anything of value with you I used today and parked my car there for about 3 hours and there are marijuana edibles missing from my car so not only did they go through my stuff and steel I have to assume that they ate the candy and now they're driving my vehicle high and everybody else that comes in there as vehicle High I do not recommend this place not if you value the items that you have in your car there a...