Quote Originally Posted by EastsideAl View Post
Richard, I agree with almost everything you've said, but the problem is that you seem to have very little idea of the actual situation in the City of Detroit and the level of economic desperation here, or of the community around the Mark Twain Library and the fight they actually fought. They did everything you suggested and more, extracted promise after promise from the authorities involved, and all of them were eventually broken, leading to this outcome.
So what would the names be of the ones contacted?

Detroit has problems yes but there is no problem in Detroit that has not been in another city or neighborhood at one time or another,you have problems and solutions the trick is to meet in the middle somewhere and save what can be saved
sometimes things need to be saved because it is the right thing to do.