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What do we want!? Unfair!
- Sep 8, 2008
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I think we should have a sticky thread dedicated to all news and updates regarding the new arena
I think we should have a sticky thread dedicated to all news and updates regarding the new arena
It's not a big deal. The delay is over the demolition of the Park Ave. building and not the actual arena. That building will be coming down sooner or later, Olympia is just trying to make sure they have enough votes to pass it. While the Detroit Historic District Commission could still oppose the demolition, a state commission or even court could get involved and override the decision. Basically (like most preservationist cases) they are grandstanding and just delaying the inevitable. The project has been approved, work has already started, it's time to move on.
The owner of the Detroit Tigers and Red Wings is close to finalizing a deal to make way for a five-story apartment complex a few steps from Comerica Park.
The structure, whose early plans called for up to 300 apartments, would be built on what are now surface parking lots along Woodward Avenue and Montcalm Street. The proposed building will be a few hundred yards from Comerica Park, across the street from the Fox Theatre and Hockeytown Cafe, and three blocks from the new home ice for the Red Wings. The hockey arena is expected to open in 2017.
Just tear the ****er down.
I understand keeping history intact, but what exactly are you keeping alive by leaving a decrepit building like that standing?
It works like this. There is a historical ordinance that says we can hold up your project to preserve this Hotel. Unless of course you line our pockets, then all of a sudden that hotel just goes away.
One of those buildings (The Eddystone) is going to be renovated. Olympia was pressured into the project with obvious reassurances of a green light for the demolition of Park Avenue. It's politics for sure, but when public funds are being used, you have to play along with the politicians. That's how it works.Detroit Politics brotha.
Hundreds of decrepit buildings in Detroit should have been tore down years ago.
I have a lot of optimism for Detroit's future. But Detroit is gonna Detroit.
There was tons of angst over Tiger Stadium, even though there isn't much to be done with a baseball stadium, besides baseball, but I have a soft spot for the Michigan Central Station, although it's in no-mans land between Corktown and Mexicantown, but I have a soft spot for a lot of downtown's architecture.
And it's not like things can't reverse themselves with the right people, look at the Book Cadillac.
So I can see why there's a holdup, and it's not like Ilitch and Gilbert haven't profited from some of these same scratch my back, I'll scratch deals before. They don't buy up half of downtown for the fun of it, over devs are looking for their cut too.