NYTimes: Making the case for Detroit's Future

**DetroitPlanner** · September-23-11, 02:34 PM

I found this on the finance page.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Making...49967.html?x=0

Any comments?

**Detroitnerd** · September-23-11, 02:38 PM

I don't think this person knows Detroit very well. There are some myths in here. What, you couldn't get food before Whole Foods and chains came to save us? Not so. A housing shortage in Detroit that makes us look to the issuance of building permits as our savior? Ummmm ...

**rjlj** · September-23-11, 02:46 PM

Original article:

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/20...troits-future/

**iheartthed** · September-23-11, 02:51 PM

What are the other two grocery chains?

**DetroitPlanner** · September-23-11, 02:58 PM

Originally Posted by iheartthed

What are the other two grocery chains?

Farmer Jack's and Great Scott?

**iheartthed** · September-23-11, 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by DetroitPlanner

Farmer Jack's and Great Scott?

Same chain, so no cigar.

**313WX** · September-23-11, 08:28 PM

Originally Posted by DetroitPlanner

Farmer Jack's and Great Scott?

It said two NEW supermarket chains are setting up shop.

So I would love to know what chains those are as well.

I know Meijer is one, but what is the other?

**downtownguy** · September-23-11, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by iheartthed

What are the other two grocery chains?

Probably referring to Meijer's at the Gateway Marketplace as one. Don't know who the other one could be. Besides Kroger, who's left? 7-11? Oh wait, they moved out in the 80s.

**313WX** · September-23-11, 08:33 PM

Originally Posted by downtownguy

7-11? Oh wait, they moved out in the 80s.

Not completely true.

There was one last location on Warren east of Cadieux, that closed in the mid 2000s.

**detroitsgwenivere** · September-23-11, 03:00 PM

"I don't want an emergency financial manager to be called in," Mr. Bing said. "However, it is an option."

Here we go.......

**Detroitnerd** · September-23-11, 03:36 PM

Chatham's! hahaha

**Detroitnerd** · September-23-11, 04:25 PM

There was still a Farmer Jack at Model T Plaza in, like, 2000, right?

**iheartthed** · September-23-11, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by Detroitnerd

There was still a Farmer Jack at Model T Plaza in, like, 2000, right?

Not sure about that one, but I believe the one at Chene and Lafayette stayed open until the chain was liquidated in 2007.

**DetroitPlanner** · September-23-11, 08:17 PM

Originally Posted by Detroitnerd

There was still a Farmer Jack at Model T Plaza in, like, 2000, right?

Model T Plaza is in the suburbs. You know.. that place CAY made the white people move to.

**313WX** · September-23-11, 08:31 PM

Originally Posted by Detroitnerd

There was still a Farmer Jack at Model T Plaza in, like, 2000, right?

Yes.

Farmer Jack stores were all over the city in 2000.

*Harper & Gratiot
*Chene & Lafayette
*St. Antoine & Warren
*8 Mile and Van Dyke [[may have closed around 1999, not 100% sure)
*7 Mile & Livernois
*7 Mile & Telegraph
*Southfield & Outer Drive

At least those are the first ones that come to mind, then the Hamtramck/Highland Park locations.

Most of those locations closed in 2003-2005-ish when they went through their original restructuring, and were briefly converted to Food Basics.

**401don** · September-23-11, 04:59 PM

You could argue that Lafayette Foods, while independently owned, is part of the Spartan chain.

**szla** · September-23-11, 05:15 PM

Aldis? for one.

**English** · September-24-11, 11:33 AM

I liked Food Basics for the hot minute they were open. I had a stint teaching at WSU's former Detroit Center near Southfield and Outer Drive, and when I took over my childhood home in the old 'hood, I'd often shop there for staples. They were clean, well-lit, and reminded me of a larger Aldi or Save-a-Lot. It's too bad they failed.