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So here's the longer story.

For the last couple years, Josephine at Spaulding has been living in a unit without heat. The pipes are on their last legs, kitchen is shot...etc. As we emerged...

Spaulding Court is certainly a lot of things to a lot of people--the most intimidating building in Detroit, an incubator of good ideas, a community asset, an engine of change in the neighborhood--but...

environmental liability is pretty complicated. every previous owner of a contaminated parcel can be held liable for injury and cleanup costs. the result is that contaminated land is virtually...

the contamination at the site probably goes back a long ways. here's a 1876 map showing the gassification plant right in the path of the yet to be built ambassador bridge. What is now riverside...

Detroit Tube Products might fit your bill:
http://www.detroittubeproducts.com/

Awesome shop on Junction by the river.

Awesome! Thanks for the history!

Anybody know what the circular structure surrounding the Ambassador Bridge is at the 4:39 mark?

We don't have much of a canopy in our neighborhood but it has allowed enormous trees to grow up as if they were in a prairie. The variety of horse chestnuts, cottonwoods, catalpas and even a few...

If you're wondering what people think, here's a nice survey.

"Americans see improving existing communities [[57%) and building new developments
within existing communities [[32%) as much higher...

Actually, I regularly submit my plat maps to the DetroitYes forums for formal and legally binding approval. This is clearly not a place for discussion, not a place where rhetorical devices could be...

For sure I am. The thing is, there are high level decisions [[transit for one) that intentionally and severely limit the competitiveness of walkable areas in the region. These decisions are driven...

You're imaginary libertarian view of this place is cute. Reality: we have laws in these parts that tell you what you can and can't do with your land. Countries that have been around longer than us...

Couldn't agree more. All I would add is that the inherent desirability comes from the inescapable economic differences between the two development types. If I can choose to live in a walkable...

2 things

1: property markets are regional. the issue of vacancy is hard to cope with when swindlers in the sticks throw up garbage tract housing like it's going out of style [[i suppose they're...

We're ok because we shoot people that come in and cause problems. Political organizing does help though :)

As for the op, I think the original location you're looking at is a good one, it's an...

http://youtu.be/4Xg8h9kPfaQ

55 minutes, totally worth it.

There's absolutely no difference in the level of safety. You can see some safety maps from SEMCOG here. The road segment between 96 and the lodge, with all it's crazy overpasses, left exits,...

We just signed a development contract with a group of three nice people. In exchange for providing all the labor and materials necessary to take one unit from the rough to the finish, they'll get...

implosion next to tunnel = bad idea

demo would be enormously expensive but still much cheaper than a fancy rehab. what would be cheaper is turning it into a downhill mountain bike course.
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Work is currently underway to finish one more unit, it will bring the total to 5 occupied in the south building.

Soup at Spaulding is reformatting this month.

More details to follow on both...

Heritage Works was out at the West Willis Party yesterday, here's a video. The campaign is lagging a bit and could really use some pledges, link to the facebook event for it or the kickstarter page...

Soup at Spaulding is running an $8,000 kickstarter campaign for Heritage Works to support an intensive summer camp for eastside Detroit youth. Not many ways to better invest in human capital; check...

I'm surprised that the taxi fleet hasn't been mentioned. Detroit must have over 100 different cab companies. From my experience [[and I use a bunch of different companies), the drivers are safe,...

Here's the quick reply

We're close to the end of the stabilization phase. Essentially, we want to be able to cover the ongoing tax, insurance and maintenance costs through rental income. We'll...

Some pictures: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.230515500297908.77508.168556503160475