Rossetti relocation rumors

[Gannon]

I was working as a college student at City Council research at the time this project came across our desks. I worked with several others on a report strongly opposing this foolishness, but Rossetti's presentation was too slick, the desperation and backwardness of the city's economic development department too strong, and the inexplicable '70s and '80s pull of "revitalization" via the building of wholly un-vital concrete wastelands was too compelling, to stop the thing.

Nice. It must've felt good, in a way, when they came down then. Other than the waste and time lost to what could've been, of course.

It is oddly funny, then, to contrast the firm high-tailing it out of town after that fiasco...only to be drawn back by the new fiasco-master, Dan Gilbert himself.

Word is out every paint manufacturer is sending Quicken cheap buckets of all the paint they haven't been able to sell...and the furniture makers are having a blast emptying out their warehouses of misfit toys. Dan Gilbert is, single-handedly, causing a revolution in handling the recycling of horrid design elements! Yay!

[gumby]

Gannon,
You know I completly respect you but I have to say I truly do not understand your hatred of Dan Gilbert. Outside of his hideous design schemes and posting of building rules in the lobby [[gotta admit I am still baffled why this is a problem) what has been negative about his investment into downtown. All he has done is buy underutilized buildings fixed them up and filled them with workers. I see absolutly no issue with this. If you don't want him in Detroit please send him up here to Flint because we need him and would actually appreciate what he has done.

Nice. It must've felt good, in a way, when they came down then. Other than the waste and time lost to what could've been, of course.

It is oddly funny, then, to contrast the firm high-tailing it out of town after that fiasco...only to be drawn back by the new fiasco-master, Dan Gilbert himself.

Word is out every paint manufacturer is sending Quicken cheap buckets of all the paint they haven't been able to sell...and the furniture makers are having a blast emptying out their warehouses of misfit toys. Dan Gilbert is, single-handedly, causing a revolution in handling the recycling of horrid design elements! Yay!