  Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine Post Number: 2385 Registered: 05-2005 |
http://www.freep.com/article/2 0081029/NEWS01/81029025 perhaps they should start by replacing or recommisioning Vito Valdez's fish sculpture that literally disappeared from Vernor and 21st when the project began (Message edited by gravitymachine on October 29, 2008) | ||
Detroiterbychoice Member Username: Detroiterbychoice Post Number: 125 Registered: 04-2008 |
A giant burrito. Possibly a taco. | ||
Barnesfoto Member Username: Barnesfoto Post Number: 5525 Registered: 10-2003 |
a network of steel beams that soar majestically and spell out "Fuck Maroun!" | ||
Publicmsu Member Username: Publicmsu Post Number: 777 Registered: 11-2003 |
Something like this: http://media3.washingtonpost.c om/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/1 2/14/PH2007121401739.jpg | ||
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine Post Number: 2386 Registered: 05-2005 |
wait, did i accidentally post this in the freep forums? | ||
Rocknrollscientist Member Username: Rocknrollscientist Post Number: 179 Registered: 05-2005 |
Have you checked out the comments on the Freep page for that article? It's all about immigration and Canada! Nothing to do with the actual article itself. | ||
Long_in_the_tooth Member Username: Long_in_the_tooth Post Number: 143 Registered: 01-2007 |
a nice wading pool.  | ||
Detx Member Username: Detx Post Number: 196 Registered: 07-2007 |
A torta from heaven... No, seriously, something from the Aztec calendar would look really cool. | ||
Vivadetroit Member Username: Vivadetroit Post Number: 97 Registered: 04-2008 |
sorry Gravity.. great minds think alike. I just saw this thread & see the resemblance in our posts. I remember when the fish was put there & how everyone was afraid some scrapper would steal it or someone would graffiti it up. It sure made that corner look better than it does now. Maroun's company bought up that vacant land, that old gas/mechanic station as well as the old police station, so it makes perfect sense that they'd get rid of the fish. | ||
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine Post Number: 2387 Registered: 05-2005 |
i saw your post on the freep, no worries, it was cool to see someone with the same concerns voicing them on there. my last comment above was aimed at all the shitty comments here that resemble oh so many posts from the mouth breathers that seem to make up the bulk of the usership on the freep forums. (Message edited by gravitymachine on October 29, 2008) | ||
Detroiterbychoice Member Username: Detroiterbychoice Post Number: 127 Registered: 04-2008 |
Gravitymachine: What do you have against taco's? What did the taco ever do to you. It is just there to provide you tasteful nourishment when you are drunk and/or stoned. All it wants is to provide your tastebuds tingling pleasure, and you have to go name calling people who back tacos. The taco predates the arrival of Europeans in Mexico. There is anthropological evidence that the indigenous people living in the lake region of the Valley of Mexico traditionally ate tacos filled with small fish. Writing at the time of the Spanish conquistadors, Bernal Díaz del Castillo documented the first taco feast enjoyed by Europeans which Hernán Cortés arranged for his captains in Coyoacán. I dont know what is more mexican than that. ( Ok.....well maybe gardening,sleeping on the job, donkey shows, thin moustaches....... ) | ||
Aoife Member Username: Aoife Post Number: 82 Registered: 04-2007 |
I like Barnesfoto's idea. Simple, yet elegant. | ||
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine Post Number: 2388 Registered: 05-2005 |
yeah, barnfesto's is pretty good | ||
Vivadetroit Member Username: Vivadetroit Post Number: 98 Registered: 04-2008 |
I third Barnes' idea! the Freep posters are a million times worse. And the moderators are turds. I had a bigger post w/ the fish part inside of it, but the Freep people blocked it. I wrote that a lot of the Freep forumers have no clue about SW Detroit, and the word ASSUME is what got my post blocked. Come on! I have been very concerned about that area by the Welcome Center for a while since I've wanted to buy in SW, but don't want to buy in an area (like Ste. Anne's area) where someone might put in a second span or ramps. Hard to tell what Maroun owns and what he doesn't. And as one can see, there is something odd w/ the construction over there. But that's a thread for another day! LOL | ||
Denbytar64 Member Username: Denbytar64 Post Number: 33 Registered: 03-2008 |
Just graffiti it up...would fit in with all the other graffiti in the hood | ||
Alley Member Username: Alley Post Number: 738 Registered: 02-2008 |
It would be cool if various artists crafted an interpretation of Xochipilli and Macuilxóchitl at the foot of each end of the bridge--Xochipilli at the entrance into Mexicantown, and Macuilxóchitl at the exit (as he is the god of games, gambling, and festivals I thought that would work well with the city's casinos and many festivals)   from http://www.mexicolore.co.uk "Xochipilli was essentially 'one of the good guys' in the 'pantheon' of Aztec gods - youthful, fun-loving, associated with summer, flowers and plants, good health, pleasure, wellbeing, the arts, music, dance and general playfulness. He was the patron god of the daysign Monkey, and the monkey was Xochipilli's 'nahual' or companion spirit. His brother was Macuilxóchitl ('Five-Flower'), god of games, gambling and festivals." (Message edited by alley on October 29, 2008) | ||
Long_in_the_tooth Member Username: Long_in_the_tooth Post Number: 144 Registered: 01-2007 |
just get it done before 2012 | ||
Englishkills Member Username: Englishkills Post Number: 6 Registered: 10-2008 |
I did a bit of research into this pedestrian bridge. Saw the video and some other stuff. Aren't there already a lot of pedestrian bridges over expressways in Detroit? Isn't there a traffic bridge a block or so from here? It appears so in the renderings at least. If there is another bridge a block away does it not have a pedestrian sidewalk for crossing? Is this bridge being constructed as a purely aesthetic sort of landmark for the area or is it needed to link the surrounding neighborhoods? | ||
Melocoton Member Username: Melocoton Post Number: 47 Registered: 01-2008 |
The expressway cut Bagley in half, so one side of the Mexicantown commercial strip (and the residential areas around it) is cut off from the other. Vernor highway is a long block away, but it's not convenient for walking through the neighborhood. Especially not with the construction and the heavy traffic over the highway. | ||
Rrl Member Username: Rrl Post Number: 1033 Registered: 12-2003 |
Gravity, Is this the fish you speak of?  I like it. [Pic borrowed from ModelD media] (Message edited by rrl on October 29, 2008) | ||
Broken_main Member Username: Broken_main Post Number: 1574 Registered: 06-2005 |
Englishkills, This is the bridge that has been promised to the community to reconnect what was disconnected. It supposedly being built to re-create the two neighborhoods that were once one before the freeway was originally built | ||
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine Post Number: 2389 Registered: 05-2005 |
it is meant to link the semi-touristy retail/restaurant strips along bagley on both sides of the expressway, while the vernor overpass is just a block north, my theory is that the ped bridge was kind of a gimme to the stong community groups of mexicantown for disrupting everything nearby for two years while they rebuild the entire freeway infastructure in the area. i'm curious what effect the bridge will have on east mexicantown, which is pretty quiet compared to the west side of the freeway which most people don't seem to realize even exists, including some of the criminal element evident on the west side of the freeway. |
