Tag Archives: parking

Saturday Night Parking Fever

Posted on October 9, 2019 by Nat Zorach

En route to the Green Task Force meeting at Walker-Miller Energy Services in New Center, I stopped at 550 W. Fort St., site of a protest against the proposed demolition of the vacant, Detroit Saturday Night building at that address. … Continue reading →

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Detroit Park City, No. 2: West Larned (2/52)

Posted on August 14, 2017 by admin

Any effort to address the Motor City’s glut of surface parking might well start, ironically, downtown. At the risk of becoming a broken record, I’ve often tried to explore the economic and geographic realities that negate the oft-repeated tropes of … Continue reading →

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Detroit Park City, No. 1: Mexican Village (1/52)

Posted on July 11, 2017 by admin

In my last post I introduced Detroit Park City, a planning research project focusing on the positive potential of converting parking lots to buildings. I’m hoping you have by the time of this post drunk the Kool-Aid and agree that … Continue reading →

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Detroit Park City: Unlearning the Motor City’s Parking Culture

Posted on June 8, 2017 by admin

At a recent MDOT planning meeting hosted at the illustrious Shed 5 in Detroit’s Eastern Market, I again found myself thinking, while poring over drawings for proposals to essentially eliminate the spur of I-375 that extends from the I-75/I-75 junction, how … Continue reading →

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