Quote Originally Posted by Richard View Post
I can see why they wanted the deal,beautiful chunk of speculation,kudos
This "beautiful chunk of speculation" was in decline when I lived on Bewick as a child in the early 70's. We had lots of fun playing in abandoned houses until our parents found out.

Our house on Bewick is one of the last ones standing. The last ten years have seen the beautiful wood Victorian burn to the ground, in addition to most of the other remaining homes.

This neighborhood should have been prime real estate all along, 1-3 blocks from the river for most of it, from Indian Village all the way to St. Jean. But the beast that is Detroit has killed nearly all of the stately, solidly made, mostly brick middle class homes, many architectually beautiful [[been down what's left of Cadillac Blvd lately) all built between 1900 to 1920. And this has been going on for decades.

Which begs another question from and for another thread. When's the last time anyone drove down Chalmers or Lakewood or Newport south of Jefferson? Or hell, Marlborough, where homes [[or more prominently vacant lots) are literally on the water. Why is it that the same people who cried foul that the Hanz proposal was taking "prime real estate" don't give two-shits about the remaining neighborhood on the canals, yet alone the area that was once prime real estate that's been reduced to crickets, tall grass, and soon to be, trees?