Royal Oak Main Art Theater...closed for good?

[masterblaster]

I think vertical growth on Woodward is going to be tough as long as it remains a 6-lane speedway. It's just not a very walkable area, especially when compared to Main Street.

Agree re: vertical growth on Woodward, when a business closes, the building sits and sits. Every so often we get a new restaurant or a new business, and most recently the new Woodward Corners. But we need more restaurants and businesses...and not the schlocky pawn shop or marijuana dispensaries. We're waiting to see what comes into the Pasquale's building and parking lot...as well as the Art Van/Love's site. Something to stimulate more business and more growth!

In my humble opinion, the lack of high density development along Woodward in Oakland County is a result of the lack of rapid transit along such a key corridor as Woodward. If we had trains zipping up and down the median like we should have - giving people an attractive, viable alternative to the automobile, Woodward would have started to densify and become more walkable.

We see the immense densification around rapid transit lines in suburban Washington, D.C, and suburban Toronto. That could have been Woodward through Ferndale/Royal Oak/Berkley/Birmingham.

Royal Oak has the opportunity to create TWO Main Street/downtown-type areas.

Instead of dense, transit oriented, mixed-use development along Woodward, you get a fancy strip mall at 13 Mile and Woodward, and the news that the Pasquale's is gonna be replaced by a Big Boy. Really underwhelming stuff.