  Detroitman Member Username: Detroitman Post Number: 1071 Registered: 06-2004 |
Sports plan draws skeptics Officials question proposal for $200M entertainment complex near Metro Airport. Doug Guthrie / The Detroit News http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb cs.dll/article?AID=/20070803/M ETRO/708030417 | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 1275 Registered: 04-2006 |
The Free Press missed a period on one of those sentences... Isn't that where airport city was supposed to go? | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 1748 Registered: 06-2006 |
not sure but I know there was talk of Ilitch building a new Red Wings arena out that way... | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 1278 Registered: 04-2006 |
Well, let him. | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 1749 Registered: 06-2006 |
^Thank you for validating the point I made in the "What if DYers ran Detroit" thread | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 1348 Registered: 10-2006 |
Nothing like taking a corn field and suburbanizing it. With all of the growth in Michigan, I guess it was bound to happen (sarcasm Implied). Maybe it will be as successful at the Novi Fountain Walk (sarcasm implied). | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 1280 Registered: 04-2006 |
Point? I would like to see them in the city but I don't think the Red Wings presence is essential to rebuilding Detroit. Let's not forget that they were there throughout Detroit's decline. So if your point is to say that if I were mayor, I would not bend over backwards to keep the Red Wings in the city, then yes, point made. There are bigger fish to fry. | ||
Andylinn Member Username: Andylinn Post Number: 490 Registered: 04-2006 |
well, entertainment alone will not save a city, but at least detroit is still the "entertainment center" (sort of) if we didn't have that, would people in suvs and detroit tigers baseball caps have any reason to drunkenly cut me off while i'm riding my bike down grandriver? | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 1282 Registered: 04-2006 |
^Yeah, but the entertainment that is there now won't be going anywhere any time soon. If I were running the show, I would probably decide that the resources put into tap dancing for Illitch would be best spent tap dancing elsewhere. This isn't to say that I wouldn't encourage the Red Wings to stay in the city. But Detroit could take the money spent subsidizing another element to the Illitch empire and do a lot more... for instance: put it towards a transit system, subsidize smaller businesses who are interested in filling the vacant storefronts along Woodward, distributing more of a police presence throughout the city, etc., etc. | ||
Urbanize Member Username: Urbanize Post Number: 2035 Registered: 02-2007 |
Why can't they jusst incorporate the area where the Sports Complex will be into the C of D? Just like other cities would do with the land that nearest and includes their Airport (Chicago, Cleveland, Indianapolis if I recall did it). | ||
Beatsworking Member Username: Beatsworking Post Number: 89 Registered: 08-2004 |
I worked for a company that was involved with this project a couple years ago. I'm surprised it ever got off the ground... and not surprised that the city of Romulus didn't even know about it. Talk about a shifty operation... we'll see if this ever breaks ground. | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 1218 Registered: 07-2004 |
I think the idea is that whenever "new urbanists" start to talk about building a place with mass transit, jobs, recreation, etc., the movers and shakers figure they can just put in a stadium instead and stop things cold. Too many years of playing Sim City. You know -- Coming soon: A cricket stadium. It's only a matter of time before the arcologies sprout. Heh. | ||
Urbanize Member Username: Urbanize Post Number: 2038 Registered: 02-2007 |
Apparently, people must care too much about Sports than all that other Mumbo Jumbo, because I don't see a big riot when they put a new Stadium down to cover up the stuff. Katie Couric (which y'al wouldn't care) said they would spend 500 Million dollars and plenty of time on New Stadiums, but not so much on bridges to save people's lives. (Message edited by Urbanize on August 03, 2007) | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 1287 Registered: 04-2006 |
"Katie Couric (which y'al wouldn't care) said they would spend 500 Million dollars and plenty of time on New Stadiums, but not so much on bridges to save people's lives. " Or properly building levees... | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 1761 Registered: 06-2006 |
^then why don't you just elect people who will do those things? Is it because complaining is more fun? | ||
Novine Member Username: Novine Post Number: 20 Registered: 07-2007 |
Typical Romulus field of dreams. How many grandiose plans have been pitched for this location only to turn out to be half-baked fantasies or completely unreasonable plans for the area. It's Romulus after all. You would be hard-pressed to find another community that's more ready to buy into these fools gold dreams than Romulus. | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 1290 Registered: 04-2006 |
"^then why don't you just elect people who will do those things? Is it because complaining is more fun?" Well, I didn't vote for the current President... so maybe the candidate I voted for would have thought it more important to have the Army Corps of Engineers build a proper levee system for a major American city than chasing fools gold in Iraq? If only my single vote had that much weight... | ||
Karenk Member Username: Karenk Post Number: 48 Registered: 07-2006 |
and the last election wasn't fixed. | ||
Detroit313 Member Username: Detroit313 Post Number: 423 Registered: 02-2006 |
Where is the collaboration between the city and county. If the developer wants to spend 200 million on a deal like that, why not centralize it???? -say ummmmhhhh maybe DETROIT!!! This region is ass-backwards!!! Is the Ilitchs afraid of a little competition? It would not be competition if it were built in the same area. It would make Detroit an unparalled entertainment-destination mecca. <313> | ||
Novine Member Username: Novine Post Number: 21 Registered: 07-2007 |
Uh, it's a pie-in-the-sky fantasy of some wanna-be developer. Why should anyone spend time on collaboration for something that will never come to pass? |
