Quote Originally Posted by downtownguy View Post
The gentleman who owns the Laikon [[restaurant, not the building) also owns the recently reopened Greek grocery store a couple of doors down. I chatted him up when I stopped into the grocery a few weeks back. He told me about the building owner not renewing his lease and selling out to the casino for a walkway. I said there must be something that could be done, but he said he had appealed to council and others in the city to no avail. Frankly, I didn't think the city would be so stupid to allow a walkway in the middle of the block, so I figured the Laikon owner was embellishing the story or had a bone to pick about something. But, sadly, I was wrong. Incidentally, the former operators of the grocery in his location are the owner of the liquor store that took over Cyprus Taverna. I've been in there a few times and am frustrated because they don't label the shelves with the price of the liquors. I thought it was state law that prices had to be conspicuously displayed. Does anybody know for sure?

Is that ever fucked up.

I cant get over that story. Not just because it eats up Greektown, a somewhat able presence in Detroit, a city that has lost a lot of ethnic neighborhoods over time, but because whatever small businesses there are in the downtown should be protected from heavy-handed approaches. Wow! Another letdown.