Friday, November 26, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Friday, October 08, 2010
Detroit 1-8-7 Scene By Scene: Nobody's Home/Unknown Soldier
This week after I noticed a home in the cultural district cut into a sequence that took place in Brush Park, I decide to go through my archives and try to match ABC's shots scene by scene.
William Milliken State Park
2007
William Milliken State Park
2007
John J. Owen House (Incidentally, Fredrick Street is NOT in Brush Park)
2006
263 Edmund, Brush Park
2006
287 Alfred, Brush Park
2005
Brush Park
2007
Patterson Terrace, Brush Park
2004
Atwater Block Brewery
2009
Jacoby's
2005
Franklin Street/Dequindre Cut
2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
Plan B for Globe Trading Company Complex
William G. Milliken State Park and Harbor has received a $25,000 grant from Coca-Cola, the American Parks Foundation and the National Park Foundation. The money will be used to turn the Globe Trading Company building into a 17,000 square-foot play area.
Instead of converting the space into market-rate condominiums and retail space, the building will contain a rock climbing wall, playscape, obstacle course and a state-of-the-art archery range.
It remains to be seen where the additional funds needed to complete this project will come from.
*UPDATE*
It turns out that the plan only calls for a portion of the building to be used for the playscape. A private developer will develope the rest. M-Bike.org has posted a few renderings of the building developed by the DNRE.
Instead of converting the space into market-rate condominiums and retail space, the building will contain a rock climbing wall, playscape, obstacle course and a state-of-the-art archery range.
It remains to be seen where the additional funds needed to complete this project will come from.
*UPDATE*
It turns out that the plan only calls for a portion of the building to be used for the playscape. A private developer will develope the rest. M-Bike.org has posted a few renderings of the building developed by the DNRE.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Spaulding Court Revival
You may remember last fall that Faded Detroit pointed out the clean-up work going on at the neglected Spaulding Court apartment complex in Corktown. In August crews began doing renovation work at the site. They plan on rehabilitating two apartments at a time.
Sunday, September 05, 2010
All that Remains
The Lafayette Building is no more. Welcome to your new pocket park to be named later.
Friday, September 03, 2010
Dumping Ground
Now it can be revealed. The real reason the Statler Hotel was demolished was to provide a staging area for big budgeted Hollywood films. As was the case with Red Dawn, the Statler site is being used to store movie props and fake debris for Transformers 3. It's a same they could not have used one of the Macedonian parking cartels fenced in lots instead.
