  Emu_steve Member Username: Emu_steve Post Number: 182 Registered: 11-2006 |
I remember when the Fifth Third announcement was made and someone suggested that a branch would be in the S. Village project. That turns out to be correct. http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb cs.dll/article?AID=/20070321/B IZ/703210352 | ||
Genesyxx Member Username: Genesyxx Post Number: 698 Registered: 02-2004 |
Sounds good to me. Woodward is getting a lot of attention. Let's hope visitors don't stray off of our main road. | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 761 Registered: 06-2006 |
got to give props to Liebler...he talks the talk...we'll see if he walks the walk "I first came to Detroit a year before the (1967) riots," Liebler said. "I saw a little bit of Detroit and all of sudden, it wasn't that anymore. I've been longing to help bring it back. If we can be a little part of that, man, that's great."" btw, he also has a blog going... http://www.thewhitneyrestaurant.blogspot.com/ (Message edited by thejesus on March 21, 2007) | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 5634 Registered: 02-2004 |
YAY Gentrification of Midtown. It belongs to diverse group of people. | ||
Apbest Member Username: Apbest Post Number: 492 Registered: 03-2006 |
count it....I called it a total educated guess, where'es my jjaba prize | ||
Emu_steve Member Username: Emu_steve Post Number: 183 Registered: 11-2006 |
Apbest, Excellent scooping or guessing or whatever is the proper term. You were 100% right on. | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 2600 Registered: 02-2005 |
SKETCHY? Even if that area was sketchy, which it's not, who uses a word like that in serious journalism? This has been the News' go-to writer on Detroit development news, but he has appeared to know very few details about the city, and is not a good writer. | ||
Emu_steve Member Username: Emu_steve Post Number: 184 Registered: 11-2006 |
http://thesouthend.typepad.com /tsenews/2007/03/wsu_breaks_gr ou.html#more The South End also is covering this 'breaking story'. Well they'll 'break' ground in 2 hours. | ||
Apbest Member Username: Apbest Post Number: 495 Registered: 03-2006 |
key contribution the south end article makes to the story? the university built garage on Forest between woodward and cass will have retail "Ghareeb said that there will be two different retail areas in SUV. “There is the retail that’s going to be on Woodward that’s going to be funded also by the private developer, and then the university is putting some retail by the parking structure on Forest,” she said." | ||
Hans57 Member Username: Hans57 Post Number: 67 Registered: 05-2006 |
By the parking structure or in the first floor? | ||
Apbest Member Username: Apbest Post Number: 497 Registered: 03-2006 |
first floor...the next paragraph talks abotu how they're talking to some retailers for forest ave frontage | ||
Eric Member Username: Eric Post Number: 718 Registered: 11-2004 |
quote: I noticed that too. I'm no longer surprised by the the lack quality writing or lack knowledge about city. In fact, seem requirement for getting hired these days. Louis Aguilar has done this before you sometimes wonder how far he's ventured from the News building | ||
Swingline Member Username: Swingline Post Number: 743 Registered: 11-2003 |
Glad to see the project moving forward. Got to keep closing those gaps on Woodward. No more gas stations. No more fast food restaurants with drive in windows. A question. Who has ownership of the parcel at the SW corner of Mack and Woodward? Is there any scuttlebutt about development there? That corner is aching for a signature project to complement the Ellington and Orchestra Place. I fear a Walgreen's with a huge parking lot though. | ||
Crew Member Username: Crew Post Number: 1153 Registered: 02-2004 |
Isn't that corner owned by the City of Detroit waterboard? | ||
Downtown_remix Member Username: Downtown_remix Post Number: 38 Registered: 03-2007 |
During my 1st NOEL NIGHT this past XMAS, my appreciation for Woodward grew to no end. The excitement in the streets was a stark contrast to mid 90's when male an female hookers flooded the streets. Me an my friends use to drive an watch the hookers flag us down. ASuch funny times | ||
Apbest Member Username: Apbest Post Number: 498 Registered: 03-2006 |
Ive always imagined that parcel as a large midrise buidling like the lofts on main in royal oak or something taller like make 20ish stories, sorta like what they're building on washington in Royal oak...I think those would be viable with transit on woodward /into midtown | ||
Bumble Member Username: Bumble Post Number: 43 Registered: 11-2004 |
Male and female hookers flooded the streets in front of the DIA in the mid-90s?! Flooded any stretch of Woodward in the mid-90s?! What are you, 19, weaned on fables your parents told? | ||
Jonnyfive Member Username: Jonnyfive Post Number: 3 Registered: 03-2007 |
Did anybody attend the groundbreaking? | ||
Saabdriver1986 Member Username: Saabdriver1986 Post Number: 387 Registered: 04-2004 |
I attended the ground breaking. The tent was packed so we had to wait outside. (WSU student here) | ||
Hans57 Member Username: Hans57 Post Number: 70 Registered: 05-2006 |
I didn't attend but I saw the tents they had set up. What was that all about? Did they have some sort of ceremony? | ||
Saabdriver1986 Member Username: Saabdriver1986 Post Number: 388 Registered: 04-2004 |
yea, jut a traditional ground breaking ceremony, 12 guys in black suits and white hard hats plunging golden shovels into a sand box | ||
Spaceboykelly Member Username: Spaceboykelly Post Number: 215 Registered: 04-2005 |
And pastries + Vernors in champagne flutes. | ||
Skulker Member Username: Skulker Post Number: 3683 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote: Good topic for a letter writing campaign! |
