Quote Originally Posted by GOAT View Post
Wow. Ilitch might be a bit of ~~~~~~ but he sure has done a fuck of a lot more for Detroit and the downtown area than most if not all of you.
What has he done?

Create "Foxtown" ? What a dumb name. I can't believe the light-rail backers want to name a station after it. What is there? Park Ave. Is any of that illich? I'm pretty sure the buildings he owns are vacant. I'm pretty sure he tore down the building that had lofts on Elizebeth/Grand River. Wow. So he owns the Fox Theatre, does almost nothing for the neighborhood and gets all this credit for helpin Downtown. Look at the sea of parking lots. Just look at the ariel images of the area between Adams and Vernor and you will see how nothing is left but the strip along Park Ave and one side of Woodward [[the other side being Comerica Park Parking). How is this improvement?

I think Kafallanos has done more to help, another gangster that is brought up a lot in Detroit politics. At least he has converted several buildings to apartments in Downtown, not just let all his buildings sit empty.

Fuck Illich. And his wife. Motor City Casino is a gaudy piece of shit, I hate having to see it at the end of my street every day. And in the North Corktown/Briggs neighborhood, there was suppose to be all this development spill over from the casino. Nope. Nothing. The casino is a fortress with no doors to the sidewalk. Look at Grand River. Look at Trumbull. Desolate. They've done absolutely nothing.

The Illiches are selfish greedy people acting on their own self-interest alone. Period. They don't give a shit about Detroit, at least not enough to go against their business plan.

NO NEW STADIUM!