Wayne County thinking of continuing downtown jail. Gilbert writes another letter.

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So we should keep the courthouse and jail downtown to help boost business in Greektown? Because Greektown businesses and area theaters are "doing poorly" after a tour you went on? Did you completely look past the "maybe we should look ahead instead of what is happening today?" part of what I said? Places aren't open for lunch because who is going to go to a middle-to-"higher" end restaurant for lunch? I know I wouldn't. I would go to the taco place, or the cheaper salad place, or Potbellys, or somewhere that is affordable. Stop looking at things how they are and saying "This is how it is; this is how it must be" and instead look at the CBD and say "This is how it is; This is what it CAN be". It is a place where courts are, but it could be a bustling and lively area of downtown. Plus if they relocated the courts, you'd see less citizens getting bullshit parking tickets and having to pay ridiculous rates to park in broke ass surface lots.

OK... I didn't just "go on a tour".... I am part of Preservation Detroit's annual downtown theatre tours... for 15 years now... and as part of that... over the years I have talk to many of the building owners/operators... the DiChiera, Forbes...etc. So I hear things from their perspectives... If you want to relocate all the court systems out of downtown... then fine... that's your opinion... [[and the discussion of parking tickets is irrelevent to that discussion).

If the courts move out of Detroit... then more downtown office space gets emptied out... and then your "This is how it can be"... takes on some unpleasant consequences for a lot of downtown building owners....

http://www.yellowpages.com/detroit-m...district-court