Originally Posted by
royce
Yeah, the casino has played a big part in the demise of Greektown. They were supposed to offer store fronts along Monroe between St. Antoine and the Chrysler service drive when they built the hotel and parking deck, but that didn't happen. Then they built another parking deck on Clinton Street [[the street immediately north of Monroe Street). It would have been nice to have some additional storefronts on that street. And the southside of Monroe needs to have more store fronts. Also, they[[city or casino) took away the street parking next to St. Mary's Church. Those few parking spaces added foot traffic to the area and it felt safer. Now, once you hit St. Antoine, that's it for the foot traffic, unless you're going to the hotel or parking deck.