Detroit City Airport

**archfan** · March-19-19, 02:05 AM

Originally Posted by ABetterDetroit

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Relocate those cemeteries? That is a expensive undertaking all by itself and you haven’t started a lick of airport construction.
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Originally Posted by hybridy

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Traditional burial is a dying trend.
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I see what you guys did, and I approve.

**Pat001** · March-19-19, 06:42 AM

In case anyone was wondering...

Selfridge Air Force Base is named for Thomas Selfridge -- an Army pilot who was the first person to die in an airplane crash. Selfridge was a flying in a plane piloted by Orville Wright during a test flight at Fort Myer, Virginia, on September 17, 1908. Selfridge is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, near the spot where Selfridge crashed.

Now you know!

**dtowncitylover** · March-19-19, 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by hybridy

Final resting in a cemetery that has permanent land right is an American invention. In Europe ceremteries have a limited lifespan due age/space constraints. Traditional burial is a dying trend. We now turn to green/natural burial and cremation due to costs and personal preference. Golf courses and cemeteries...they will be more victims of the millennials and for that I am glad.

I love my deceased family members dearly, but as we move away from traditional Sunday church worship and cemetery visitation, we celebrate our ancestors in the oral and digital tradition. We don’t need to litter an excessive granite stone with some plastic flower bouquet that blows away and becomes litter. We have to do better for the environment.

That's so true, hybridy. I hadn't thought of this before. Hey, let's create some catacombs too!

**birwood** · March-19-19, 03:15 PM

Actually, Selfridge is a Michigan Air National Guard installation, owned by the State of Michigan National Guard Bureau and that installation plays host to USAF Reserve ,Navy & USMC Units, Army Reserve Aviation, USCG Air Station Detroit and DHS Aviation There are many former Air Force installations across the country now owned by the National Guard that are Joint Usage, civilian and military use....Kellogg Field in Battle Creek, Toledo Express, Stewart Airport just outside of NYC.....joint usage help pay the utility bills, maintain infrastructure and creates area jobs

**Gistok** · March-20-19, 01:54 AM

Originally Posted by hybridy

Final resting in a cemetery that has permanent land right is an American invention. In Europe ceremteries have a limited lifespan due age/space constraints. Traditional burial is a dying trend.

That is correct about cemeteries in Europe. My maternal grandparents died in Germany in 1968 and 1985. They were both buried together. A plot of a cemetery is not "purchased" there but instead "leased" for 30 years. And you are only allowed a wooden casket... without a vault... so that the casket and remains will decompose together and after 30 years your surviving family members can decide on another 30 years extention... or the plot will be reused... and the dug up surviving remains/dirt get tossed back into the grave when the next casket goes in... and the gravestone gets removed.

Not a very good way according to American standards... but in Europe... land is at a premium.

**O3H** · March-20-19, 01:41 PM

Better to cremate, takes up less space, easy to move.
Expand, modernize, go forward via progress, it's the way of the world

**O3H** · March-25-19, 04:38 PM

Interesting - the water bill skyrocketed because of the
impervious runway surface and multiple rooftops
in the 264-acre airport is subject to the
Detroit Department of Water and Sewerage's steep fees
for water runoff surfaces, which are around ~ $852 per acre.

**Ltdave** · May-03-19, 02:04 PM

Originally Posted by Gistok

That is correct about cemeteries in Europe. My maternal grandparents died in Germany in 1968 and 1985. They were both buried together. A plot of a cemetery is not "purchased" there but instead "leased" for 30 years. And you are only allowed a wooden casket... without a vault... so that the casket and remains will decompose together and after 30 years your surviving family members can decide on another 30 years extention... or the plot will be reused... and the dug up surviving remains/dirt get tossed back into the grave when the next casket goes in... and the gravestone gets removed.

Not a very good way according to American standards... but in Europe... land is at a premium.

In Denmark, interment is for 25 years but there is no option for an extension. after 25 years, its off to the crematorium, if that wasnt the first act after death..

**O3H** · May-03-19, 04:16 PM

Uber & Lyft go for that Flying Taxi Service -- sort of --

https://detroitflyingcars.com/press/

**hybridy** · April-28-23, 08:33 AM

Detroit city airport a contender for Toyota-backed air taxi maker's new plant

State and local economic development officialsare working to land a Toyota-backed aviation company at Detroit city airport for a project that could bring a $500 million investment and up to 2,000 jobs, Crain's has learned.

The Coleman A. Young Municipal Airport is on Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Joby Aviation's short list of finalists for an eVTOL [[electric vertical take-off and landing) aircraft manufacturing and research and development facility, according to people involved in the proposalwho asked not to be named amid discussions with the company.

Duggan has pushed for years to redevelop the airport, which has bled money and has lacked commercial airline service for more than two decades. The Federal Aviation Administration's approval in October of a new layout plan that would decommission the Crosswinds Runway opened up 80 acres for "airport-related development," the city said at the time.