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Recharging the Aquifer Underneath Detroit’s Transit Desert

January 5, 2022January 5, 2022 Martha Connell 0 Comments DDOT, ddot cuts, ddot detroit, ddot driver shortage, ddot funding, ddot routes, Detroit, duggan, duggan administration, economic development, labor, metro detroit, michigan, QLINE, regional transit authority, regioonal transit authority, RTA, rta michigan, rta millage, SMART, transit, transit service, wages

Martha Connell looks at some hard questions about the future of Detroit’s transit.

Detroit Historic preservation Automotive

“Detroit: Become Livonia” – Mike Duggan

December 15, 2021December 15, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amazon, amazon warehouses, amc, amc building, american motors, american motors corporation, appliance manufacturing, auto project, Behrouz Rashidinejad, BSEED, Detroit, detroit mayor mike duggan, duggan, duggan regime, flex-n-gate, garbage aliens, industry cluster, industry clusters, junkyard, junkyards, kelvinator, mayor mike duggan, mike duggan, nash motors, nash-kelvinator, northpoint, Paul Jones III, paul the urbanist, paultheurbanist, ruin porn, sakthi automotive, scrapyard, star trek voyager garbage aliens

Detroit’s mayor has a vision for the city. It involves a lot of parking lots, and a lot of low-wage jobs. But there’s a better way.

Real Estate Policy Urban Planning Law

The Morouns Tore Down A Warehouse For More Truck Parking. Really. [EDITED]

July 9, 2021July 14, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments BSEED, building department, city of detroit, city of detroit government, climate change, corktown, criminal negligence, david bell, Detroit, drainage, drainage assessment, duggan, duggan administration, enforcement, flooding, hardscaping, impervious surfaces, industrial slumlords, manuel moroun, matty moroun, Michigan Central Station, mike duggan, moroun, moroun clan, moroun empire, municipal incompetence, pervious surfaces, rain tax, Regulation, slumlords, southwest detroit, southwest solutions, ted bundy, west side industrial

Walking from home to Corktown last night in search of food and drink with some out-of-town visitors who were eager

Urban Planning

Detroit: Vote No On Proposition N

October 27, 2020October 27, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments community development, demolition, Detroit, distressed property, duggan, economic development, mike duggan, proposition N

Detroit’s Proposition N, on the ballot next week, is a terrible idea for a few reasons, and Handbuilt recommends you vote no.

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Detroit Fairgrounds Site: Alternatives to Permanent, Monumentally Bad Decisions

October 6, 2020October 5, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 8 mile, adaptive reuse, brooks patterson, brownfield, dave coulter, DDOT, Density, Detroit, duggan, economic development, eight mile, francis grunow, historic preservation, mike duggan, preservation, QLINE, redevelopment, RTA, SMART, state fairgrounds, state fairgrounds site, transit, transit infrastructure, woodward, woodward avenue

The State Fairgrounds site is centrally located, and it’s huge. Too huge to make some monumentally bad decisions about permanently turning it into a Shelby Township-style strip mall.

Urban Planning Affordable housing

A Mayor Should Create Value, Not Refinance The Lack Of It

November 6, 2019November 6, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments affordable housing, blight, brian farkas, christine ferretti, deadline detroit, demolition, duggan, HHF, HUD, kwame kilpatrick, mike duggan, violet ikonomova

Mike Duggan’s latest proposal to “eliminate blight” includes a proposed $250 million bond issue to finance his ongoing demolition program,