State Savings Bank Neglect [UPDATE: Gilbert buys State Savings Bank]

[stinkytofu]

Yes, a city with a 15% unemployment rate [[probably closer to 30%), 67% poverty rate and 80% on EBT calls for an Apply store. Why not Hermes, too. People are so obsessed with bullshit window dressing in Detroit. Try actually improving the city instead of being seized with pretending.

So this is bad news to you...OK....what? Rehabbing this building is good for the city and doesn't lessen the potential to improve other parts. If anything, it improves the image and therefore might lead to more positive benefits long term for everyone. It's also all private money most likely so it isn't drawing from public resources.

As the great philosopher Taylor Swift once stated...haters gonna hate, hate, hate...

[bailey]

Yes, a city with a 15% unemployment rate [[probably closer to 30%), 67% poverty rate and 80% on EBT calls for an Apply store. Why not Hermes, too. People are so obsessed with bullshit window dressing in Detroit. Try actually improving the city instead of being seized with pretending.

Well, if you'd open your eyes and look around downtown any given afternoon you'd see an insane amount of apple tech attached to those walking around. And if you spend any time at an Apple store in the burbs, you're going to see an awful lot of Detroit customers. Seems to me opening up a retail establishment that sells that insanely expensive and popular stuff AND doing it in a building that the city has allowed to become a blighted building AND capturing the tax revenue from that store's operation AND having to hire a ton of people to work in the place AND benefiting from increased chances of more retail to locate nearby [[and hire more people) would have the potential to ACTUALLY improve the city.

[ismoakrack]

Um, sure, I'll begin working on improving the city [[neighborhoods) this afternoon.

Last time I checked Detroit takes money out of workers' pay checks, that helps pay for city services. An Apple store would generate such paychecks.

[buckster1986]

There has been talk of such a thing...

http://dro.detroitrocksonline.com/on...sicexperience/

Might as well throw this in here...

I think we should have a museum dedicated to Detroit's awesome musical heritage. The Motown Museum is great, but how do visitors know that greats such as The White Stripes, Eminem, Madonna, Kid Rock, Techno, Rodriguez, Alice Cooper, etc. came from our area?

[Gistok]

Yes, a city with a 15% unemployment rate [[probably closer to 30%), 67% poverty rate and 80% on EBT calls for an Apply store. Why not Hermes, too. People are so obsessed with bullshit window dressing in Detroit. Try actually improving the city instead of being seized with pretending.

Huh??

Are you sure you're on the right thread?? We're talking new uses for an old architectural treasures... not what ails the city and how to fix it....

[ABetterDetroit]

Hot damn! Cool old bank out of the slum lords hands straight to the guy who makes them shine like they should.

[hortonz]

The historic Paul Martin Federal Building in Windsor is for sale if Dan's interested. It would fit in great with all of his other local real estate holdings. Times running out though. Dick Cheney's bastard children in Ottawa can't wait to tear down a building bearing the name of a giant in Canadian politics who happened to be a Liberal.