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I knew when Rosie's went up that Bdubs days were numbered. Still have fond memories of when Bdubs was a college town thing with 25 cent wing night. Even though franchise quality has been sliding......

Yeah this is a bummer. As indie as Ferndale strives to be, it's nice having a few things that don't keep banker's hours or require snapchat or whatever to figure out when it's open or what's on the...

Yeah, it seems plenty safe enough, but it is hard to parse out the acadmics. If I'm reading this right [[and I'm probably not), Michigan Department of Education thought only 12 Oakland County high...

The Ferndale schools are definitely not an 'easy' option, and I'd say for every middle class family that keeps their kids in, there's another that outsources to private schools or moves to get in a...

Very broad socioeconomic spectrum at Ferndale Schools.

What I've noticed is that kids with stable homelife and money [[Pleasant Ridge on the one extreme) do fine, make friends and go on to...

Of the 'Parks' neighboring Ferndale, I can't decide if Oak Park or Hazel Park wins the "1950s happened to us in the worst way" award. It's like they are different sides of the same coin of big dumb...

I believe it was Snoop Dogg who said, "The game is to be sold, not to be told"

That's always the tricky part in talking to people who haven't been to the city much in the last 20 or so years. The euphamistic 'Inner City' region is the getting all the investment, the middle part...

Except Minneapolis:

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2013/09/minneapolis_ranks_second_in_bike_commuting_with_our_old_nemesis_taking_top_honors.php

Because it's the 'real' connectivity that...

[QUOTE=DetroitPlanner;416415]However, the motorist does pay for the streets. Bike have no mechanism to contribute to transportation taxes. QUOTE]
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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/students-hurt-out-of-control-car-queens-article-1.1453331

Idaho Stop Law needs to happen, for a start. Cars are expected to behave one way on public roads, and...

Having grown up in Pittsburgh and spent my adult life in the Detroit region: Pittsburgh, hands down. Its like someone stepped in detroit and scraped it off on san francisco. So you get postindustrial...

For a low-res scan of Magic's proposal summary . . .

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/landbank/Drawings_398163_7.pdf

Wish i could have caught that meeting. Any links to the proposed plans?

I thought part of the bargain was to keep the main 4-5 buildings and repurpose them.

Different view...

http://www.gatewaymarketplace.net/file/Gateway%20Marketplace.pdf

A little of both! It's a solid pavement, but as I remember from walking across a few years ago, there's significant deterioration on the edge. Serious pitting and even a few holes you could look down...

Not as eerie as those Macomb shots, but check out the 'mixed use' development at Mound and 12 Mile. The strip mall side alongside Mound is doing okay, but the residential side has stalled pretty...

I'm assuming both legs will be SMART? Kindle will be fine. In fact, morning on the Woodward SMART bus resembles a functioning city. Very diverse and chilled. 9 and Woodward is probably one of the...

The Eric Sabree from the detnews article is Deputy Treasurer of Land Management for Wayne County. [[He gave the orchard a firm 'dislike' in the story) My guess is the scope of labor on this project...

This is a unique feature of this region - unllike anywhere else I've been to. We've been 'dealing' with the collapse/loss of the core city by pretending it's not there. The change to 'North American...

[QUOTE=Buy American;320963]I can't help but remember a couple of older ladies who lived on my block in the 7 Mile and Hayes area over 45 years ago. They would come out every morning, in their...

Michiganders are forever reinventing the wheel. Other states have been through this - what happened? Wisconsin would be a similar rust belt state to look at, and they dropped helmets in the 70s....

Springfield IL is a good comparison. But Des Moines is also the most populous city in IA, so it's hard to say which came first on that one.

Then there's the largest state fair: ...

But aren't most Michanders around Detroit? This corner of Michigan eats the most i.e. pays the most farmers - would make sense that the trade show is here as well.

Odd that we lost the State Fair at a time when people have never been more interested about where their food comes from. Moreover, closing it didn't seem like THAT much of cost savings - like closing...