Jefferies East

[izzyindetroit]

They have been pushing dirt around for quite a while on the site east of Motor City between MLK and Temple. Are they still demoing the old projects or is there something planned for the site?

[Danny]

That brownfield where the Jeffries Projects used to be, will be reserved for a "PEMIERE DEVELOMENT OPPORTUNITY" for furture condos or houses for the higher income families. Gentrification of inner city ghettohoods are currently in progress.

WORD FROM THE STREET PROPHET

Only the developers have to do is tell the NSO shelter on the corner of Martin Luther King Blvd. and Third to move and the all the po'folks will be gone.

[Gsgeorge]

Only the developers have to do is tell the NSO shelter on the corner of Martin Luther King Blvd. and Third to move and the all the po'folks will be gone.

I realize this was in jest, but please, god, I hope SOMETHING is done about that shelter. No offense to the poor souls who frequent the place, but 90% of them have no respect for the city. They throw their garbage everywhere -- much of it is the bags and containers for the free meals that are handed out there -- and drug dealing & use is rampant around this corner. Street sweepers will come by and the garbage will come back within a day or two. The lots and yards around the shelter are trashed beyond belief. The seagulls love it though. There seem to be more gulls around 3rd & MLK than on Belle Isle, picking at the food containers and hovering over the dried up shit in the alleys. Yeck.

[izzyindetroit]

Do you know who owns the development right or property?

I've heard rumors of the city, Strather, or Illitch, but no one has ever confirmed it.

[detroitcorky]

here is another rumor for you. DTE Energy owns it.

[MIRepublic]

Jeffries East [[and it's been reported on many times now) is being demolished for another "Woodbridge Estates"-type development; that is, a private-public partnership that will transform it from a full-on government project to a mixed-income neighborhood that will include 138 public housing units and 42 'affordable' units. Scripps Park Associates, LLC is the developer. They were the redeveloper of Jeffries West [[Woodbridge Estates).