The billionaire and the bait shop
Thursday, July 01, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Plan To Turn Free Press Building Into Condos Revived
It looks like Detroit Paper Place 2.0. is finally, slowly, moving forward. The Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority approved incentive financing on a $70 million plan to turn the vacant Free Press building into residential apartments, office and retail space, as well as a health club on the upper floor.
The project still needs to find market rate financing, but the developers are hopeful. They believe that construction will begin in 2011.
The project still needs to find market rate financing, but the developers are hopeful. They believe that construction will begin in 2011.
Friday, June 11, 2010
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Another Loss in Rivertown
You had to see this one coming. The back of this building at Franklin and St. Aubin collapsed prior to March of 2009. The city finally got around to demolishing it this past May. All that remains is a hole in the ground.
Detroit Photo Heat Map
Locals and Tourists #82 (GTWA #134): Detroit, originally uploaded by Eric Fischer.
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Monica Conyers Wants More Time
Monica Conyers wants to delay the start of her federal prison sentence by three months. In a court filing Conyers declared that she wants to help a close family member who's having surgery in late July.
Conyers' appeal of her sentence is still pending in federal court.
Conyers' appeal of her sentence is still pending in federal court.
Monday, June 07, 2010
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
Saturday, May 08, 2010
Oneida Jackson: Free Press Copy Editor, Vandal!
Vandals mar new bridge in Detroit
Tom Greenwood / The Detroit News
Less than a day after it opened, the Mexicantown Bagley Avenue Pedestrian Bridge was vandalized, Michigan Department of Transportation officials said....
In fact, MDOT video cameras caught one woman as she used a colored pen to scrawl on a bench in the middle of the 400-foot-long bridge.
"Yes, it was me," said Oneida Jackson, a copy editor at the Detroit Free Press and author of the Sunday's "O Street" blog.
"I did it. If you see a person with a green pen ... dressed in black slacks and a red top, that's me. I was excited about the event and wanted to put my name on it."
Jackson eventually put away the marker and said "Oh, I guess I shouldn't be doing this," the tape showed. As a blogger, she has written about her efforts as a mom to raise her 16-year-old son and encourage citizens to be more patient and civil.
From The Detroit News