  Sg9018 Member Username: Sg9018 Post Number: 52 Registered: 10-2006 |
National community activist groups are hosting a forum to talk about the new mall site at 8 Mile Road and Woodward Ave. If you want to go to the meeting, it starts tonight at 6:30 pm. About two hours from this post message. More info in the free press, http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .dll/article?AID=/20071030/NEW S01/71030039 | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 3317 Registered: 10-2003 |
Geez, you want to build a strip mall at 32 mile road, it's like nothing. You want to build one in an underdeveloped part of Detroit that needs it, there's a city council commision to oversee the committee on looking into holding a forum on the possibility of building a mall. Ok I'm exaggerating, but geez, just build the thing. | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 2567 Registered: 06-2006 |
"a city council commision to oversee the committee on looking into holding a forum on the possibility of building a mall" lol | ||
Spacemonkey Member Username: Spacemonkey Post Number: 250 Registered: 03-2006 |
Off topic ... last Friday, I checked out the new MJR theater at Partridge Creek mall. It's all digital. Digital sound and screen. It was a new viewing experience. Very cool. "30 Days Of Night" couldn't have looked better. | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 1914 Registered: 10-2006 |
Oh, a real forum? A forum where you put a face and profile with what someone has to say? Interesting novel idea. I like sitting on DetroitYES! instead and critiquing stuff. [loads of sarcasm implied] | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 2568 Registered: 06-2006 |
If anyone attends, please let us know if they discuss why the design for this mall is | ||
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 10630 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote: When people on Detroityes claim to hate those kind of developments. | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 2569 Registered: 06-2006 |
"When people on Detroityes claim to hate those kind of developments." Them too. | ||
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 10631 Registered: 10-2003 |
Agreeing with that does not make your first claim valid. Most of the poeple I know that live outside downtown just want retail options in the city. The opinions of this forum represent the opinions of the participants, not the residents of the city as a whole. | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 2570 Registered: 06-2006 |
"The opinions of this forum represent the opinions of the participants, not the residents of the city as a whole." I approve this message. | ||
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 10632 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote: Crap, just a reminder of how soon we will be inundated with campaign commercials. | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 2571 Registered: 06-2006 |
a hell of a lot of campaign commercials "In January 2007, Federal Election Commission Chairman Michael Toner estimated that the 2008 race will be a "$1 billion election," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U .S._presidential_election,_200 8#Campaign_costs | ||
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 10633 Registered: 10-2003 |
$1 billion dollars and no talk of actual issues. I guess I have one more reason to avoid TV in the coming months. | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 1919 Registered: 10-2006 |
"I guess I have one more reason to avoid TV in the coming months." What were the other reasons? | ||
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 10634 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote: Enjoying life without TV Reality TV Celebrities Waste of time Very few original shows Avoiding a sedantary lifestyle News being more sensationalist than informative | ||
Professorscott Member Username: Professorscott Post Number: 895 Registered: 12-2006 |
Retailers won't build anything anywhere if all they get is opposition. If you want more urban-style retail, which is pedestrian oriented, then you have to have some way for people to get to the stores other than driving. If you accept that since Detroit has inadequate transit most people need to drive to stores, then you have to accept acres of parking and the suburban strip-mall look (or, no retail at all, such as has been the case for the most part lately). | ||
Billpdx Member Username: Billpdx Post Number: 49 Registered: 05-2006 |
This makes for an interesting train of thought: 1. A city with a poor transit system results in a car-based culture. 2. Any desireable destinations in a car-based culture will require parking lots. 3. Parking lots are unpleasant places to be, and sap the vitality out of an area, making it undesireable. and so it goes... | ||
The_ed Member Username: The_ed Post Number: 486 Registered: 10-2007 |
I live in that area (Green Acres) and I just hope that the construction doesn't foul up the traffic like it did when they "beautified" the intersection. (8 mile & Woodward) I also hope that the employment will be fair to those seeking honest work. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 3320 Registered: 10-2003 |
"I just hope that the construction doesn't foul up the traffic like it did when they "beautified" the intersection." Eh, probably not. But even if it did, you're a Michigander, I know you can handle long periods of inconvenient construction.  | ||
The_ed Member Username: The_ed Post Number: 496 Registered: 10-2007 |
It's a way of life... |
