Quote Originally Posted by nain rouge View Post
Not that Patterson was alone in his desire to kill of Pontiac. It amazes me how little Oakland University cares about Pontiac. Can't they see the value in having a good-sized urban community in their backyard? Royal Oak and Birmingham are OK, but don't really have large enough urban district to feel like a city as opposed to a suburb. And all this money is spent in improving Rochester when they had a better city down the road. I'd say I don't understand, but I do - Pontiac has black people, and we know how people like Patterson feel about that.
Oakland University predates Patterson by quite a bit [[1957). The university was built on donated land and was always oriented towards Rochester. When the university was being built, Rochester renamed 5th Street/Walton Blvd as University Drive.