Housing at M-10 The Lodge and Temple

[Designerguy24]

Does anyone have any information or know anything about the housing being built at M-10 The Lodge and Temple right across from MotorCity Casino Hotel?

[Detroitnerd]

They cleaned out the Jeffries East projects there a few years ago. .. IIRC, the projects were the result of land leftover from freeway clearance.

Now Cornerstone is going to go in an is probably going to make the same mistakes all over again. Just when people are paying a premium for housing that's integrated with the neighborhood, they're going to build something that looks like a row of motels.

That said, one intelligent thing they're doing is letting Peterboro and Charlotte proceed through the development, so it will be more connected to the street grid. In the old days, Jeffries East was a warren of ugliness accessible only via Fourth.

[Gsgeorge]

Suburbs in the city, yawn.... What are they thinking?

[Gsgeorge]

Speaking of which, a great article from Detroiter Matt Lewis...

http://radial-logic.com/2011/06/14/suburbs-in-the-city/

[animatedmartian]

It's public housing.

http://www.dhcmi.org/DevelopmentSite...aspx?siteid=10

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[animatedmartian]

I actually would prefer if they were more densely built, but whatever.

[BVos]

It's not public housing, it's mixed income housing. If you want more density, then figure out how to pay for it. How is it not connected with the surrounding neighborhood? This project is actually paving the way for work with Midtown Inc. to connect this area eastward to Woodward.

[Detroitnerd]

It's not public housing, it's mixed income housing. If you want more density, then figure out how to pay for it. How is it not connected with the surrounding neighborhood? This project is actually paving the way for work with Midtown Inc. to connect this area eastward to Woodward.

Read it again, BVos. I note and praise that it is connected to the neighborhood and that the old city grid will run through it again, unlike the old Jeffries East, which was a sidestreet slum. It's just that the neighborhood is traditionally single-family homes and small apartment buildings, and this project is not integrated with that -- it's a repetition of "housing" rows and parking lots instead of some of the more intelligent in-fill stuff being built in the area. Which is to me a signal that they only plan to leave this up for 30 years and then demolish it for the next project.

Even the stuff they've built on Brainard between Second and Third looks better and more "Detroit" to me.

Oh, sure, Cornerstone's plan is better than Jeffries East. But that's hardly a compliment. I made the mistake of driving down Fourth through Jeffries East once or twice. Jeffries East was a piss-soaked, burned-out cul-de-sac of poor, hopeless, angry residents. A good day in Mogadishu would be better than Jeffries East.