Quote Originally Posted by DetBill View Post
R8R for some clairity perhaps. yes. I live across the freeway bridge from Greektown. and was/am a daily runner/walker/socializer there since 1991.
Okay, thank you for the info. Perhaps you and I have different views of Greektown. You gave me yours, let me share mines.

The Greektown that I am talking about is the Greektown from the 90's until I left in October of 2000 which was one month before the casino opened and the Tigers would have played their first season at Comerica. I was a frequent visitor to Greektown in the 90's and I do not recall Greektown being a crime area. Now I am not saying that it was protected by a force field to repel crime but I do not recall seeing people in fear. In fact the police was either walking or drive down Monroe. Greektown in the 90s had many days when people were out. I spent many Fridays and Saturdays in the Athens Lounge or I would go to Marilyn's.

I was gone for four years so if Greektown had changed, I wasn't a witness to it so maybe crime did increase. With Ford Field opening up in 2002, you had more sports fans in the area so yes I suppose the area was changing maybe for the better, maybe for the worst.

I only wished Detroit would have done something similar to what San Diego did to a decay section of downtown known as the Gaslamp Quarter. They coudl have opened a section of downtown which would have included Greektown and had a number of different restaurants, bars, etc... This could have preserve Greektown as it was but at the same time expanding the entertainment area. Instead everything was absorbed in the Greektown area and you have a disappearing Greektown.