Originally built as an upscale hotel, the building included a Ford-designed monorail people mover to Fairlane Mall.

[3][2] The people mover, hotel, and mall were supposed to be part of a larger office, retail, and residential complex built by Ford's land development subsidiary.

The architect, Charles Luckman, designed the hotel in a contemporary Modern style with glass as the main exterior material.

On December 14, 2018, the hotel was deemed "unfit for human occupancy" by the City of Dearborn and condemned and closed due to fire code violations and lack of necessary permits.

[8] The hotel was seized from Gong by US and Canadian authorities in 2021,[9] after his business empire imploded as a result of multi-national criminal investigations in the US, Canada and New Zealand.