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Username: Nellonfury
Post Number: 179
Registered: 03-2005
Posted From: 68.43.156.135
| | Posted on Sunday, August 13, 2006 - 6:27 pm: |    |
Whats going on with that place. I seen it has no windows security people hanging around and there is not progress in rebuilding it on knocking it down. whats going on any news? |
1953
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Username: 1953
Post Number: 932
Registered: 12-2004
Posted From: 4.165.78.6
| | Posted on Sunday, August 13, 2006 - 7:26 pm: | |
Let's keep it just as it is. That will make everybody happy. |
56packman
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Username: 56packman
Post Number: 523
Registered: 12-2005
Posted From: 65.185.132.134
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - 5:15 am: | |
Nellonfury--there are already about, oh, 4 threads rolling on this already. In a nutshell, the Packard plant fell victim to a nineteenth century-style land grab perpetrated by an individual who deals in large commercial structures in the D. He was aided and abetted by someone in the Archer administration in getting the owner's rights ignored so that he could acquire the property, have a fat demo job (paid for by State of Michigan awarded superfund Brownfield clean-up $$$$$X10), and end up with 64 contiguous acres with rail access. Except it didn't all stay nicey-quiet-on the DL.
Sonny boy did get to begin demolition--the west wing of the plant is now gone due to that action, and the fifth floor of the next building has a big bite out of it, his next action before the courts finally sunk their teeth into the matter. There was no permission granted by the bank or financial institution that loaned the money for the purchase (by the owner) for the demolition , and well, you just can‘t do that.
The owner paid the back taxes owed to the State of Michigan, but somehow, months later the title was signed over to the City of Detroit. It's basically a 3-1/2 million sq. ft. Lee Plaza for them, they have become unwitting "owners", a consequence of this "lets hurry up and tear it down so we can get/use this superfund money" scheme that the aforementioned real estate speculator initiated at a rare moment in time when there was this money to be had. The city has had guards at the building since 1999, and their only real function is to deny the owner his rights as a property owner. The vandalism there has been rampant, and has devalued the property at an accelerated rate.
The whole thing stinks to high hell, and Kwame's administration has so much more on their plate that they can't begin to give it the time of day. |
Detroitej72
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Username: Detroitej72
Post Number: 115
Registered: 05-2006
Posted From: 66.184.3.44
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 9:35 pm: | |
So instead the city pays guards to patrol the stucture. We know Detroit has so much expendable resources.
I read recently that there is still a business operating out of it. The article says therefore its not technicaly empty.
Also wasn't the city trying to tear it down when the owner was wholed up inside living there 24/7 a few years ago? |
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