[1] The east necklace of downtown links Grand Circus and the stadium area to Greektown along Broadway.

The east necklace contains a sub-district sometimes called the Harmonie Park District, which has taken on the renowned legacy of Detroit's music from the 1930s through the 1950s and into the present.

[4] The bank failed,[5] and ten years later, in the depths of the Great Depression, the building was 75% unoccupied; the main tenant was the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, who occupied the top floor.

Metropolitan was notable for its willingness to write small insurance policies for African Americans.

[4] Notable African American firms had offices in the building, including the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (the largest Black union in America at the time);[6] the law firm of Loomis, Jones, Piper and Colden; attorney Harold Bledsoe;[4] optometrists William H. and Lloyd Lawson; and future judges Damon Keith and Hobart Taylor Jr.[7] The building has recently been refurbished, with commercial space on the first floor and various offices in the upper floors.