Quote Originally Posted by swingline View Post
Very sorry to hear of Mr. Pieroni's passing. An gruff, interesting and real nice guy. He was a fixture in the downtown Detroit business community of an earlier era. He was a Detroit supporter who invested here when many wouldn't, but yet he also clung stubbornly to a pessimism about the place probably because he had witnessed so much decline. Condolences to his family.
Hi Swingline... your comments are spot on. But I believe that part of Tony's pessimism sprang from city government. Especially the Kwame Administration. Oh the stories that Lowell and I could tell! But that's for another thread, at another time...