Eastside Vineyard Takes Shape in Former Detroit Public Schoolyard
ModelD has an interesting creative reuse story about the planting of a 300 vine vineyard on the Eastside by the always-surprising Dennis Kefallinos development team. Bellevue Vineyards, as it is called, is a back-to-roots activity for the Greek-immigrant boot-strapper become Detroit land baron who grew up amid vineyards.
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Kefallinos immigrated to America from Greece in the 1960s. He started off a dishwasher and worked his way into becoming one of the entrepreneurs behind the development in Greektown in the 1980s. The Bellevue Vineyard is a way for him to return to his ancestral roots.
"This is not foreign to him at all," [Eric] Novack [Senior project manager of Boydell Development] says. "He did this for a few years at farms before he came to the U.S."
So what shall the labels be? Nain Rouge Rouge? Eastside Red?
