Curbed: GPP doesn't want Detroit

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Why would I boycott a city I pay taxes to and reside in?

For that matter, what do Palmer Woods and the city of Detroit have to do with this discussion?

Palmer woods has several blocked off streets that impede access.

Over the years, efforts to wall off Detroit streets to keep out motorists have drawn howls, with critics charging elitism and racism.


Today, Detroit not only is welcoming the efforts, the cash-strapped city footed the bill.


Northwest Detroit’s upscale Palmer Woods neighborhood, known for its tudor mansions and streets bordered by landscape rocks instead of curbs, has installed traffic barriers to block speeders from cutting through the historic area.

Also, no one seems to mind dropping a chrysler plant across Kercheval in Detroit....but GPP does it to make a pedestrian/entertainment district and its tantamount to apartheid.