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Just a note, I think Bernero unloading the River Trail and the zoo to the county were a couple of the best moves he made since he gained office. The county's stewardship of the zoo has been massively beneficial as things are looking brighter there t…
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@gbinlansing This kinda goes back to my rant the other day about the lack of vision and drive to really get things done (although I know this project in particular depends more on the State than the City.) So much seemed to happen on the public side…
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Reading over the Forever Park proposal and seeing the site plan/rendering I'm pretty disappointed in the design they came up with, the proposal from the 80's was vastly more interesting. The design they show seems like nothing more than a grassy fie…
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Regarding the neighborhood north of Willow, I'd always thought the houses up there looked like they were a significant notch down in quality relative to the neighborhoods south and east of there. They seem to be smaller with less of the craftsmen to…
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Yeah, I think the location for the zipline is right also, it's high profile but not highly utilized. My bet would be that this will happen, it seems like a relatively modest proposal and I expect it should do well. Little things like this can help a…
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I thought I heard this mentioned before, but City Pulse has a story on a developer who will be leasing part of Riverfront park north of Saginaw to build a zipline over the river: Let it Zip - City Pulse
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It's sad this city has been so lacking in vision for the past 40-50 years. Even now we only have a trickle of investment in the central city and most of the buildings built are mediocre both in design and quality. It's sad to see other cities exceed…
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I think I've mentioned an old failed project my dad told me about called SpiraMart, a 31 floor building proposed for the block that the Radisson and One Michigan sit on. My dad found a news blip from the Detroit Free Press while searching newspaper …
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This is a building that I would've never expected to see a renovation, yet here it is getting a new facade and it will occupied by a tenant(s) that makes total sense for the area. It's very good to see an off the beaten path building like this get a…
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The problem is that from Seymour to the Oakland-Saginaw junction there's no room to make Saginaw five lanes, much less allow room for right turn lanes or bike lanes, the exception being if you're willing to tear down one side of the street like on M…
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Not to get sidetracked, but I've wondered how the "Don't Tread on Me" flag ever became controversial. It's a symbol of the most important time in our country's history and represents a pretty good philosophy. If anything I think it would be worth fl…
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There aren't any simple answers when it comes to the one way portions of Saginaw/Oakland and Larch/Cedar. It's obvious that making them two way would be best for the neighborhoods and the businesses in the area, but accommodating the traffic is ulti…
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Penfil is its original name, I didn't know the new developer had renamed them. I assumed they were open as I've seen lights on and what looks like curtains/blinds in the windows as I've passed by.
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It's great to see this little strip get some attention. I was really glad when the Eastside Party Store closed, I was only in there a couple times and the shelves were practically empty, the only things they seemed interested in selling were alcohol…
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It's good to see this project progressing so quickly, it looks like those are two elevator towers that are already above ground. I'd imagine they have to be getting close to done with the footings since they've been drilling them since demolition be…
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Marshall St is on the left, the field runs parallel to it, the taller part of the school in the foreground looks like a future addition. BTW I was using the two floor section with sloping roof lines to orient myself with the satellite view.
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@gbinlansing CSO stands for Combined Sewer Overflow, there's a detailed overview of what it was here: The CSO Story. If I remember right it was halted because federal mandates were changed so they needed a new program to meet the new mandate (I thin…
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They need to finish the south Washington streetscaping, it was supposed to be done now. I don't understand why stopping the CSO project meant stopping the streetscaping project.
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I wouldn't say what we see here is what we get. The apartment building will likely either get built or not get built, but the listing for the office building still says "build to suit," so there's certainly a chance that we could get something diffe…
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The bodies/chassis (which are the same piece in modern unibody cars), were built at Verlinden and then shipped to Plant 1 for final assembly. I'm not sure specifically what the building west of MLK was used for, but I think it was either where the b…