Royal Oak mayor: We must avoid pricing residents out of housing market
The Mayor of RO responds:
https://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...sts/776630002/
Of the other two restaurants said to be closing by an opposition group "called Take Back Royal Oak [who] have issued a stream of news releases, criticizing Fournier and other city officials, blaming them for what they described as a recent exodus of restaurants," ... "the popular Tex-Mex watering hole Cantina Diablo and Red Fox English Pub, both on South Main Street, was also closing, a rumor emphatically denied by owner Brian Kramer, who also owns restaurants in Ferndale and Chesterfield Township."
So only three are closing?
Nonetheless the article cites a remarkable list of RO developments:
- A $60-million combined Hyatt Hotel and residential project is to open this year.
- Recent completions in the downtown of a new parking structure, widely praised for its traditional appearance to blend with the historic post office; and the modernist Etkin Building, a $20-million office tower that in April drew a busload of admiring urban planners and architects from their national convention in Detroit's Cobo Hall.
- Beaumont Woodward Corners, the complete reconstruction of a landmark shopping center at 13 Mile and Woodward Avenue by its landlord, the adjoining William Beaumont Hospital.
- Scores of new houses erected in the last year and 154 new home building permits issued so far this year alone.