"Terrible Ilitches" Facebook Page

**Burnsie** · July-25-19, 07:40 PM

That parking graphic is great, but someone not familiar with the situation would infer from it that there's no park above the Grand Circus garage, and no huge convention center beneath the Cobo lot. Also, it shows parking covering the area where RenCen towers 500 and 600 are. There are probably other misleading orange-labeled areas too.

**Gistok** · July-25-19, 08:00 PM

Originally Posted by MrChrome

I do quite a bit of walking downtown for exercise and to blow off steam. A path that I sometimes take is Woodward from Hart Plaza up to LCA. As I make the transition from Gilbertville to Illitchville, I start to get angry. All of the empty lots and all of the broken promises really start to add up. And these people are playing with house money!

Gilbertville has people walking around, even on the weekends now. Illitchville is only populated on game days. I went with a group of friends to Sports and Social inside of LCA on an off night. We were the only ones in there and the manager came over and asked us why we were there!

I follow the Facebook page and I'm thankful for whoever runs it. I wish there was more we could do!

Mr. Chrome... you inspired an idea.... we should collect a pool of money and rent a billboard....

"District Detroit Ilitchville/District Detroit Gilbertville"

And have half of the billboard be a sea of parking, and the other half showing the vibrant downtown area with Gilberts buildings.

BTW... Jack White's nephew [[he works for his uncle) stated that Jack White never offered to buy the Gold Dollar... he said it was nothing but 4 walls waiting to fall in.

**bust** · July-27-19, 04:38 PM

Originally Posted by Gistok

Mr. Chrome... you inspired an idea.... we should collect a pool of money and rent a billboard....

"District Detroit Ilitchville/District Detroit Gilbertville"

And have half of the billboard be a sea of parking, and the other half showing the vibrant downtown area with Gilberts buildings.

More than just a billboard, this seems like a great topic for serious study. Is there any better opportunity to examine the two most prominent [[and opposite) large scale real estate investment strategies and their results than what we are experiencing now in Detroit?

**hybridy** · August-12-19, 07:14 PM

Originally Posted by hybridy

Ilitch Gems of the Day:

Ilitches trying to build large new office property in Farmington Hills

Ilitch to construct office project in Farmington Hills for Mercedes-Benz Financial

https://www.freep.com/story/money/20...es/1988788001/

**Honky Tonk** · August-12-19, 09:59 PM

Originally Posted by hybridy

Ilitch to construct office project in Farmington Hills for Mercedes-Benz Financial

https://www.freep.com/story/money/20...es/1988788001/

@ least they're putting all those taxpayer subsidies to good use.

**Gistok** · August-12-19, 11:30 PM

In keeping with the Ilitches tencency to never sell any land... that 12 Mile and Drake Rd. property has been owned by the Ilitches longer than any downtown property. They were originally going to move their LC HQ to that site that they owned, until some of the next generation of Ilitches talked their parents into moving downtown to the Fox Building instead.

So that property has been in their possession for over 30 years.