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    The foundation for the streetcar along Woodward...

    The foundation for the streetcar along Woodward is already being realized and, once it's up and running, property values along the entire route will start climbing; the discount stores at Grand Blvd...
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    You must have enjoyed drinking at The Woodward...

    You must have enjoyed drinking at The Woodward back when Andy owned it.
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    Malls (a bad idea from the start) are finally...

    Malls [[a bad idea from the start) are finally starting to fall out of fashion. A "mall" is exactly what downtown doesn't need: We don't want to re-create the suburbs downtown. While we do need the...
  4. Dear "Noise", That's exactly what your response...

    Dear "Noise", That's exactly what your response is, noise. "prayer" is a concept that the churches use when they themselves are preying on the weak.......you may as well be wishing upon a star.
  5. Couldn't agree more with you. The race of the...

    Couldn't agree more with you. The race of the owner shouldn't be a determining factor, it should simply be the type of food that's being served.
  6. In April of 2012 they were still talking about...

    In April of 2012 they were still talking about Mexican hotel developer Gabriel Ruiz redeveloping this old hotel into a Crowne Plaza but, In January 2013 it's still closed.
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    A tidbit in the newspaper recently is that St...

    A tidbit in the newspaper recently is that St Stanislaus Church, once the bedrock of the area, is now for sale for about $48,000. Stripped of its stained glass windows, chandeliers and anything else...
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    Wisniewski, Nowakowski, Niedbala, Czerwenka,...

    Wisniewski, Nowakowski, Niedbala, Czerwenka, Witkowski, Jendrzejewski, Brzuchowski, Mowinski, Ignaczak, Tabaczynski, Glowacki, Puczynski, Goralski, Felczak, Zuba, Dzikowski, Nykiel, Zelek,...
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    While Chene street was once a viable retail...

    While Chene street was once a viable retail district, the surrounding neighborhoods were all timber framed workers houses. At some point it's just too expensive to maintain them, but with the city...
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    Fesh Fruit??

    You ask......"How can any sort of fresh food be sold nearby?" What about the poor folks who are still living down there? They have to breathe that foul air every day.
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    Chene=Ferry Market

    Hey Kryptonite.......Things sure are "a whole lot different now". The ehene & Ferry markey won't ever come back because there's nothing there to come back to. Beyond that, there's no-one in the...
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    While I admire the guys who created Slows and I credit them with bringing renewed life to a previously desolate strech of Michigan Ave, the...
  13. The Soup Kitchen and The Woodbridge Tavern in the...

    The Soup Kitchen and The Woodbridge Tavern in the warehouse district, Benno's in West Village, Koreana on Gratiot north of 7 mile [[best korean food I've ever had outside of Korea), Cardinalli's [[on...
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    It's a shame to see that what used to be St....

    It's a shame to see that what used to be St. Stanislaus church is being/has been stripped of many items but it looks like the folks that did the "stripping" were carefully removing itmes that stil;l...
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    Ferry Girl Revisited

    I remember Medbury Street. Banaszynski's lived on Medbury just behind Milano Bakery that was on the coner of Dubois and the Ignaczak family lived on the SE corner of the same intersection. The...
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    So many of you sound so young and optimistic...

    So many of you sound so young and optimistic about Detroit......just as I was back in the late 60's/early 70's when I was a teen-ager growing up in the city.......in a pretty gritty part of the city....
  17. It was (and probably still is) owned by one of...

    It was [[and probably still is) owned by one of the Meur sons or cousins from the original seafood restauraneurs in Detroit, Chuck and Joe Meur. The last time I ate there it was fine but, I have to...
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    Hey detroitbob66.......what planet are you from? ...

    Hey detroitbob66.......what planet are you from? None of these companies is doing this out of the kindness of their corporate hearts. They're doiing it because , in effect, they now have a loaded...
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    First of all, most of the space that's coming...

    First of all, most of the space that's coming down has been vacant for some time and those buildings were nothing notable from an architectural standpoint...so they weren't worth saving. The...
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    Here's the inside scoop.

    Here's the inside scoop.
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    Slick, When you were graduating from Stannies I...

    Slick, When you were graduating from Stannies I had just fiunished the seventh grade there. After 8th grade at Stannies I went to De La Salle for high school but we still lived in the old...
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    I don't remember very many at all who were...

    I don't remember very many at all who were "digging in for the long haul" once the GM plant bought out everyone north of I-94: If anything, those that remained were sorry they were south of I-94 and...
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    I remember bowling at Chene & Trombley. There...

    I remember bowling at Chene & Trombley. There was also a Chene & Trombley Market run by the Niedbala's. They had two son, Gerry and Kenny, and has a terrific lottery business. When the GM plant...
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    Chene Street Memories

    St. Stannies, Chene Street, Werner's soda fountian, the Home Theater, Dan & Vi's Pizza, etc. all bring back so many memories of growing up in this part of Poletown. I remember trick-or-treating at...
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    So Matty might not be the model citizen we'd like...

    So Matty might not be the model citizen we'd like him to be, but lots of folks aren't. The problem I have is why should we spend valuable [[even more valuable now) taxpayer money to build our own...
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