While reading Detroit Dads post, I do remember when the Fountain Walk, Plymouth Road, and kinda the Bloomfield Park deals when they started. I heard alot of advertising for the then opening stores,attractions, etc out in Fountain Walk. Then heard it refered to as Novi's New Downtown. But wasn't Novi building a fake downtown on Grand River just East of Novi Rd at the same time? As for the Plymouth Rd Corridor in Livonia if I had to say any place that might be considerd a Downtown in Livonia other then Farminton and 5 mile, That would be the place I myself would call Downtown Livonia.
Yet having only seen a little bit of the Bloomfield Park project, I am amazed of the size of this failed project. It just make me shake my head and think about what my Dad tells me "We are a wasteful society".
The ruins of Bloomfield Park are some of the saddest ruins I have seen.But yet one of the biggest oxymorons too. It seemed to have been built to draw business away from other office parks, areas and yet it is empty as many of the places it wanted to empty.Now it is a ruin, Kinda like the overbuilt Michigan Central, Yet at least the MCS got used.
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