  Detroitman Member Username: Detroitman Post Number: 969 Registered: 06-2004 Posted From: 216.78.46.198 |
Eastern Market revival planned For control, nonprofit vows to put $30M into venue Louis Aguilar / The Detroit News http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb cs.dll/article?AID=/20060427/B IZ/604270348/1001 | ||
Detroitduo Member Username: Detroitduo Post Number: 608 Registered: 06-2005 Posted From: 194.138.39.52 |
This should have been done 10 or 20 years ago. I am glad to see this and I hope they are successful. My Childhood years were spent at Easter Market and it is my absolute favorite spot to go to, on Saturdays. It would be great to have this as a 7-days-a-week shopping area. I'm looking forward to this. | ||
Jsmyers Member Username: Jsmyers Post Number: 1670 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 209.131.7.68 |
Lets hope city council signs off smoothly. | ||
Motorcitymayor2026 Member Username: Motorcitymayor2026 Post Number: 756 Registered: 10-2005 Posted From: 70.227.14.62 |
yea, something tells me it wont go smoothly with CC though.... Just a hunch  | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2024 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 4.229.105.228 |
I love the architectural renditions of the 4 Victorian buildings, but it's too bad that they don't recreate a 5th building that used to be to the left of R. Hirt & Co. That was the 2 or 3 story Fronterra Brothers Building (Hornwrecker, can you find a pic?), another Victorian jewel that was lost in a fire in the 1980's, and not rebuilt. They could easily do a recreation of a new building with a faux Victorian facade. That would make the block complete again. | ||
Jsmyers Member Username: Jsmyers Post Number: 1671 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 209.131.7.68 |
Great point Gistok. I think if the vision for the market comes to fruition, the parcel will be desirable to build on. | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 1090 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 63.41.8.67 |
This is all I can come up with on an initial search, an aerial from the 1920-30s. I'll have a look at some other sources when I get the time, guessing around 2400 block of Market St.  The rest of this photo shows how conveniently located Eastern Mkt was to the old DeHoCo. | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 1092 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 63.41.8.95 |
The 1921 map of that block.  | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 41 Registered: 04-2006 Posted From: 205.188.116.137 |
This needs some urban styling look at all of those parking lots with the stores behind them. Thats just terrible. No wonder Eastern Market has gone to hell. ; ) | ||
Schoolcraft Member Username: Schoolcraft Post Number: 1 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 70.190.24.108 |
Awesome. Bring back Joe Muers also. Man, was that place great! | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 42 Registered: 04-2006 Posted From: 205.188.116.137 |
Schoolcraft, welcome, are you a Brightmoorington? | ||
Eastsidedog Member Username: Eastsidedog Post Number: 304 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 68.20.140.8 |
Detroitplanner, I love eastern market and judging by the massive crowds there every week I wouldn't say it's gone to hell. I love the market just as it is. I love all the chaos, dirt, noise and grime (and the great selection, fresh foods and cheap prices of course). After all it's an open air market. I hope no one tries to make it into a goddamned lifestyle center. | ||
Gmich99 Member Username: Gmich99 Post Number: 94 Registered: 11-2005 Posted From: 24.208.243.207 |
Will Gratiot Market be included in any of these plans. Just a guess, but I figure Gratiot Market does more dollars worth of business than that of Eastern Market. Its just across the highway and forms an important part of the market community around Eastern Market. | ||
Jams Member Username: Jams Post Number: 3219 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.249.45.48 |
Eastern Market is really not a retail center, that's just a bonus, its day-to-day operations is based on its wholesale located there. | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 46 Registered: 04-2006 Posted From: 63.85.13.248 |
Eastside, I agree. I was just making an attempt at humour, some folks get way too freaked out here when it comes to parking lots. | ||
Eastsidedog Member Username: Eastsidedog Post Number: 312 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 68.20.140.8 |
Gotcha Detroitplanner. Sorry to flip out. People changing one of my favorite places in the city just has me on edge... | ||
Broken_main Member Username: Broken_main Post Number: 1090 Registered: 06-2005 Posted From: 69.222.11.226 |
I haven't been here for a few weeks... Is there any news on this project. I think its a wonderful concept and it would make Eastern Market even more of a destination for out of towners. It would be a perfect way to keep people coming downtown for longer periods of time. Also the addition of a more diverse selection of marketable goods is an excellent way to get people of all cultures together. This would be the DIY Chefs oasis!! | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2095 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 4.229.129.33 |
I take it that this means that Alex Pollock's whimsical animal murals on the market sheds are going to be history? They always added a touch of humor to the streetscape. Kids especially loved them. | ||
Broken_main Member Username: Broken_main Post Number: 1093 Registered: 06-2005 Posted From: 69.222.11.226 |
Everybody loves em!!! You can't always beleive a rendering. They could save them. | ||
Detroiternthemist Member Username: Detroiternthemist Post Number: 41 Registered: 01-2006 Posted From: 68.252.3.66 |
I like the market as is....why does everything need changing......park you cars or walk from near...fruit and flowers......music over at Berts...food off the grill.....its almost perfect. Open on Sunday that would be icing. Stop trying to suburbanize everything!!! | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 97 Registered: 04-2006 Posted From: 152.163.100.8 |
mist, First of all, everything changes. Berts was not there since the begining of time. New farmers will come and old ones will go. The same goes with most of the stores. This is not suburbanizing it, it does however turn it into a more active place on slow days (it is underutilized every other day but saturday). You say you don't want to suburbanize it, but you want it open on Sunday's you can't have both. Sunday shopping came when the suburbs were born. | ||
Irish_mafia Member Username: Irish_mafia Post Number: 501 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.222.54.70 |
"Everybody loves em!!! You can't always beleive a rendering. They could save them." ______________________________ ___________________ Not everybody. They are as dated as the artwork on the Partridge Family bus....lose the murals! | ||
Naturalsister Member Username: Naturalsister Post Number: 633 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 68.30.35.208 |
Detroitplanner, Sunday shopping? Suburbs? Been to the open markets on Sunday in Manhattan or Chicago, or Columbus, or Philly, or DC? Obviously not. A ridiculous statement. later - naturalsister | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 100 Registered: 04-2006 Posted From: 64.12.116.204 |
Natural, It was meant to be rudiculous. My statement/main message is all things change (or die off). I thought mist's comment about how this would suburbanize things was nonsensical so I put together a bougus a correlation that suburbs = end of blue laws; since these laws things faded as suburbanization began. Natural, where is the open market in Philly? Do you mean open as in open for business or open as in open air? The one I am familiar with is on the lower level of Reading Station; and is a wonderful space. (Message edited by Detroitplanner on May 14, 2006) | ||
Thecarl Member Username: Thecarl Post Number: 766 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 69.14.30.175 |
hey! anybody notice the facade on the produce company (?) north of rafal spice on russel? i drove by this morning, and saw bricks that had peeled off the top of the building, laying on the sidewalk. the bricks on that building have been bowing out severely for some time now; one would think that code enforcement would see the inherent risk, and at least make the owner put up some netting, if they were unable to make the needed repairs. it looked like hundreds of bricks that cascaded two stories down onto the sidewalk. i was hoping that this incident didn't happen during peak eastern market shopping hours! | ||
Wash_man Member Username: Wash_man Post Number: 3 Registered: 05-2006 Posted From: 69.218.153.90 |
I ate lunch next door at Mike's Pita on Friday. They were there then, so luckily it didn't happen on Saturday. One of those buildings, I think that one, was bowing out bad. The top part was torn off last fall and rebricked. I hope it wasn't the same building. | ||
Naturalsister Member Username: Naturalsister Post Number: 635 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 70.8.196.153 |
Sorry Detroitplanner, Guess I'm a bit sensitive. I grew up on this stuff. Eight siblings and all, my parents made sure they'd get the best deal and that was at the 'market'. I'm talking about Filter Square. Is Reading open on Sunday? later - naturalsister | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 102 Registered: 04-2006 Posted From: 152.163.100.8 |
hmm Filter Square? Sounds interesting, is that the italian hood on the south side? We used to go there all the time, and I'm a west sider! We would get our christmas trees there, sometimes Dad would wake us kids up early and take us down to load up the back of the Pontiac with beans or corn, then we would have breakfast at some dive. Good memories. I didn't think it was, but I was only in town a few days. I stayed down the street from the Reading Terminal, and would do my lunch there. It seems my fellow planners I was being trained with in Philly were to lame to want to go out to eat, but they would give me some handy advice. |
