Thanks to a development and construction boom that began in 2011, downtown Detroit is now full of sleek, renovated office buildings. The Detroit Foundation Hotel, however, is a preservation project like no other. To say the 95,000-square-foot hotel, largely located in a 1929 building that once housed the city’s fire department headquarters, is “hot” would be an understatement. Since opening last May, it has become a global destination—as evidenced by the number of foreign guests during a recent visit.