Atwater construction & East Riverfront updates

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Of course no one can park at the Rivard pavillion, while this project is going on... unless you can catch a moment when the guard has left.

[stasu1213]

There is no end in sight to this atwater project. Appear to installing new drains [[I have no clue). Looks like they have five people working on it.

Maybe this project will be completed by next year. The city would save more money if more men are put on this project. Why wasn't Atwater repaved between Rivard and Jos Campau years ago when the part of Atwater that runs behind the RenCen was repaved?

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Hoping that they are updating the sewage and water in preparation for failed or delayed development projects.

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Detroit water department land deal has suburbs steaming

"The parcel just east of the Renaissance Center, which the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department plans to use for a sewage retention basin, was part of 6.6 acres the city acquired for casino development. "

"The casinos went elsewhere, so the city leased half the property to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources for William Milliken State Park along the river and eventually sold the rest to the water system for a basin to store untreated sewage during heavy rains."

"Ellenwood said the department is awaiting state approval for its plan, which includes a retention basin on the site. The basin likely would be underground with green space on the surface, he said."



http://www.freep.com/article/2010071...over-land-deal

[R8RBOB]

Finally Detroit Metropolitan Credit Union has built a drive-through ATM behind it at Riopelle and Woodbridge. This replaces a small yellow warehouse building that was demolished some time in the last couple years.

How I miss Bastille's. It might had been a hole in a wall but it was one of those bars that had an unique touch.

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We can rename the district "Retention Town."

[Rocko]

I was driving from Belle Isle down to the Auto Show yesterday and decided to take a detour through the warehouse district to see if Atwater was finally open.....which, by the way, it finally is. The new segment is open from Orleans over to Rivard, and carries on the streetlight and streetscape motif found in the block west from Rivard. It looks like they're doing the streets going up to Jefferson from Atwater, too, including Orleans and Riopelle, new pavement, pipes, streetlights, and buried utilities. It looks nice, but I think the telephone poles along the sidewalks really added to the industrial character of the district. It also means the last and final vestiges and footprints of the once busy Dequindre Cut line that curved over to Brush Street station are now long gone. It looked to me like the segments of Franklin and/or Woodbridge between Rivard and Orleans may not be open yet either....but I can't imagine WHY. Hopefully this is all wrapped up by the spring and visitors to the Riverfront, Tri-Centennial, and Diamond Jack's will actually be able to make it to where they are going.

Side note: has anyone been down to the new charter school in the old Franklin Furniture warehouse during class time? How busy is it? Did they repave the roads around the building?