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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.

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Historic preservation Urban Planning Parking 

Saturday Night Parking Fever

October 9, 2019October 9, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments coleman young, demolition, Detroit, detroit saturday night building, detroiters for parking reform, emmett moten, fort street, francis grunow, green task force, ilitch, michigan, Mike Ilitch, olympia development, parking, surface parking

En route to the Green Task Force meeting at Walker-Miller Energy Services in New Center, I stopped at 550 W.

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