2 New Residential High-Rises to Overlook Comerica Park

[bust]

The ilitches just seem like they really don't grasp that people would actually want to live and work in the properties that they own had they built when they announced the district Detroit.

Or they do, but only exploited that to pump excitement as a giant PR ruse and collect hundreds of millions of tax dollars to build only what they wanted and demo what they didn't.

I wish the expectations outlined in this post from 2015 were not proven almost entirely true:

I expect little more from the Ilitches than their arena, parking lots, and wider streets to speed suburbanites to the expressways and their casino. Aside from the Fox, that's pretty much all they've delivered except blight in their decades of history in Detroit. It's disgusting they tried to escape a contractual obligation to renovate the Eddystone, and I'm grateful to the city council for catching that. Without a legal obligation I expect nothing from them. And I expect them to try to weasel out of every legal obligation they don't want to fulfill if they can.

This opinion is informed by their past actions. I question the motivations of those who want to obscure those facts.