A fixture of the Detroit skyline is no longer. No, not that one. The tower crane at the Hudson’s Detroit development on Woodward Avenue was removed over the course of the weekend Oct.

Gantry cranes vary in size from small workstations to very large, heavy-duty construction cranes ... Boom cranes have a large structure or pole (boom) that supports a suspended cable. Tower cranes ...

but issues persisted the following year when a small crane known as a building maintenance unit at the L Tower collapsed atop the 58-storey structure. It was a particularly frustrating collapse ...