RIP Greektown: Laikon Closing

[313rd]

I'm not understanding the walkway. Where does this walkway take you to the alley? or to the private surface parking lot that holds 50 cars?

Is there something that we are missing that maybe a future development might be happening in that back lot?

[cpanagio]

I'm not understanding the walkway. Where does this walkway take you to the alley? or to the private surface parking lot that holds 50 cars?

Is there something that we are missing that maybe a future development might be happening in that back lot?

A new valet garage/entryway is being erected where the existing parking lot at Beaubien and Macomb St sits. I believe this was part of the landswap that took place earlier this year. Unfortunately, the Laikon sits directly in the path of the current 2nd floor entrance and proposed connecting walkway.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...125749058.html

[Detroitnerd]

Gotta have those pedestrian tubes! It's not like we'd want anybody to walk on the street, right?

[Modusvivendi]

Gotta have those pedestrian tubes! It's not like we'd want anybody to walk on the street, right?

Yeah, no kidding. A casino does nothing to help a neighborhood if people go straight from their car to the casino. If people walked outside maybe they'd patronize another business or two. Allowing these pedestrian tubes is very short-sighted, but downright destructive when it takes out a building that contributes to the urban streetwall that made the area desirable to begin with. Who the hell approves this kind of decision? They should be fired.

[BrushStart]

A new valet garage/entryway is being erected where the existing parking lot at Beaubien and Macomb St sits. I believe this was part of the landswap that took place earlier this year. Unfortunately, the Laikon sits directly in the path of the current 2nd floor entrance and proposed connecting walkway.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...125749058.html

It really doesn't get any stupider than this. Destroying perhaps one of the only vibrant street walls in the entire city in order to build a parking garage walkway exemplifies everything that is wrong with Detroit. Other cities are doing everything possible to preserve such developments and encourage new ones. Detroit, on the other hand, seems to be completely disconnected from what is sensible development.

While they are at it, why not just level all of "Greektown" and build a giant valet parking lot to serve the casino. That way, we can shuttle in more poor and elderly folks to pour their money into that citadel of sin. I'm serious when I say that there is a special place in hell reserved for the people who are dismantling the vital remaining urban fabric of this city. I hope they will be sentenced to an eternity of living in a city where the only buildings are parking garages.

[Modusvivendi]

It really doesn't get any stupider than this. Destroying perhaps one of the only vibrant street walls in the entire city in order to build a parking garage walkway exemplifies everything that is wrong with Detroit. Other cities are doing everything possible to preserve such developments and encourage new ones. Detroit, on the other hand, seems to be completely disconnected from what is sensible development.

While they are at it, why not just level all of "Greektown" and build a giant valet parking lot to serve the casino. That way, we can shuttle in more poor and elderly folks to pour their money into that citadel of sin. I'm serious when I say that there is a special place in hell reserved for the people who are dismantling the vital remaining urban fabric of this city. I hope they will be sentenced to an eternity of living in a city where the only buildings are parking garages.

Exactly. If the whole of greektown is turned into parking lots, it won't be any different than any other empty urban space and people will stop wanting to go there. The you'll end up with empty parking lots. Sigh.