Quote Originally Posted by RickBeall View Post
Hey I live in Hamtrack. We're still kicking. Basically, Detroit treated the Poletown area just like they treated Delray. If Hamtramck were not an entity separate from Detroit, we would be a field like Delray ... and Poletown.

But as 56packman said, there were no absolute good guys or bad guys. Hamtrmack lobbied real hard to have the Poletown plant built on its southern border. It's partically in Hamtramck, and we get a couple million in revenue from it yearly. The Poletown plant also cut of Chene street from the healthier Hamtramck, and that area has steadily declined into almost urban prairie.

It's a tangled story.



I'm glad you mentioned Delray, because, something extremely similar is taking place right now called the DRIC. People need to realize that Eminent Domain in the City of Detroit has always left a lot of good people screwed over.