Omni to leave Detroit.

[Rocko]

I think a hotel right there on the river off E. Jefferson is a pretty decent and certainly unique venue. How many other Detroit hotels are directly on the riverfront these days? RenCen and.......

Hopefully they're able to pull something through for this historic property. That whole area of the city is slowly picking up steam and generating interest, not only because of long standing establishments such as the Stroh RiverPlace, Omni, and Andrew's on the corner, but newer places such as the Park Davis lofts, Atwater Block Brewery, the charter school in the old Franklin Furniture Building, etc. Joseph Campau is a crazy place on weekend evenings!

I second the idea that East Jefferson should be the next arterial to have light rail after Woodward. This is a district that not only has a fairly decent base for commercial, entertainment/dining, and residential, but has excellent potential being only a few blocks from the riverfront and passing many important establishments. And it's certainly wide enough for a center-of-the-road streetcar style operation.

[mwilbert]

Jefferson would be a logical place to put a rail line, but as far as I know current transit volumes on Jefferson are too low to get federal funds for light rail [[but high enough for BRT, thus doubly annoying the pro-LRT, anti-BRT folks), so that isn't likely to happen anytime soon.