Quote Originally Posted by royce View Post
Great news. Just wondering though. How it is that Dan Gilbert has been able to buy up so many properties relatively quickly, when some properties languished for years during the 90s and 00s because property owners were holding out for a big paycheck? Has Gilbert been paying top dollar or has he found another way to get these property owners to sell their property?
If I recall correctly, the DDA had acquired a good amount of that property [[the corner building everyone loves is definitely in that category) and cleared title relatively recently [[as in the past couple of years) - and that was the point in time where the area was put out to RFPs.

HB