what if Detroit was chosen as United Nations Headquarters?

I spotted this article from the Detroit Free Press who mentionned then Detroit put a bid to host the United Nations headquarters in Belle-Isle in the 1940s, which bring us to that question:

what if Detroit was chosen as UN headquarters?
 
1940s means a lot of butterflies so this wouldn't happen, but the first thing that springs to mind is the Michigan Militia do all of the freaking out possible. All of it.
 

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The UN's Belle Isle is probably given full extra-territoriality, save for the Conservatory and extant parks/facilities. It'd just ease traveling across the international border and everything. You'd probably see the US Marshals have law-enforcement responsibility for the complex (if they don't split it with the RCMP as well.)

With like 800 acres to build on, it probably won't have a skyscraper, but much be more spread out to reduce cost, although it'll probably have at least one tall, iconic structure there. Like a huge-ass Tower.

Hopefully Le Corbusier, or Frank Lloyd Wright won't be involved with it. Oscar Niemeyer would be cool to have though, especially if he produced something like the Cathedral of Brasília for the general assembly. Eero Saarinen, Walter Gropius or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe would be cool to have on as a lead architect as well.
Perhaps, picking an Architect from each of the six/seven continents (or leaving spaces open for continents without famous architects,) to design a major building for the complex could be interesting.

Which could lead to Saarinen doing the main office building, Niemeyer building the general assembly, and Mies and Togo Murano designing alternately the canteen or a housing block. Which would make for a large number of architectural marvels in close proximity.

Particularly since Detroit and Windsor wouldn't slump anywhere near as badly as IOTL, thanks to American and Canadian national pride on the line (plus the need for support services for Belle Isle would bring in a lot of fairly high paying work,)
 
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