At the start of 2019, I reported on the Baker College campus consolidation into downtown Ferndale.

At the end of 2019, I reported on the Baker College campus consolidation into downtown Royal Oak.

That, in itself, is a perfect illustration of a year in which a not insignificant chunk of the development pipeline in Detroit and its suburbs was in flux.

Projects in and around Detroit were buried, at times unceremoniously, in the development graveyard or dramatically scaled back, delayed or completely reimagined, much of the time at the whim of a labor market in which costs have risen by most estimates around 30 percent.

But other times, residents torpedoed them, as was the case in Birmingham and Ferndale and Washington Township.

I've seen no evidence the choppy seas will calm next year. Yes, there has been some general sense that the labor market will loosen up a bit, driving costs down at least slightly. But even so, it will be too little too late for those developers whose projects ended up scrapped.

There have been plenty of examples of real estate projects being seriously or fatally wounded this year:

The Platform LLC's effort to build high-end condominiums in the TechTown neighborhood has been shelved as construction costs cut into profit margins. (A contractor switch has also delayed one of its nearby ground-up developments.)

Likewise, a plan by The Means Group Inc. and Holdwick Development Group for luxury condos was abandoned in favor of a Cambria Hotel.

Executives from Dan Gilbert's Bedrock LLC are no longer sure the development being built on the site of the former J.L. Hudson's department store will end up housing the tallest building in the state.

Likewise, Bedrock's efforts to develop office, residential and retail space on the Monroe Blocks site has been pushed back as a redesign is underway, even after a ground-breaking ceremony a year ago.

Dennis Archer Jr. and Bloomfield Hills-based Lormax Stern Development Co. LLC have scrapped the 213 apartments planned for a mixed-use development that is now one use: a Meijer Inc. grocery store on East Jefferson Avenue.

In Brush Park, New York City-based RHEAL Capital Management LLC and Livonia-based Schostak Bros. & Co. are no longer doing hundreds of apartments in the neighborhood north of downtown, doomed by high construction costs and financing woes.

A plan in Birmingham to bring a flagship RH luxury store was torched when voters shot down a bond measure that would have paid for a new parking deck to support it.

In Ferndale, a parking issue killed Baker College's plan to build a new consolidated campus along Nine Mile Road in the hip downtown area.

In Washington Township, a millage that would have allowed for the purchase of the Total Sports Park complex failed in spectacular defeat at the polls.

Untold numbers of others at varying stages in the development process have blown through previously disclosed timelines.

If I missed any in my list above, or there are some I don't know about, let me know.