Posted on 01/30/2022 9:34:36 PM PST by nickcarraway
Newbie, you are a NUT. Not sure you are anything conservative.
Guess What, NYC:
Businesses with those kinds of losses will not have an income to PAY TAXES ON, either.
Because the move to Pontiac boomeranged when it became majority black. Plus the Silverdome was falling apart (deflating lol).
It's not like space was at a premium in the warehouse district where they built Ford Field and Comerica. I recall the only other competitor was Novi and that was just to distract from what was a done deal downtown.
Meanwhile, Mayor Groot has basically told da Bears to go-on-wich-yo'self out of downtown to tidy-whitey Arlington Heights. You wait and see, Groot will build Cabrini Green North on Soldier Field, overlooking a giant statue of Groot where Adler Planetarium is!
Democrats-Destroy-Everything-They-Touch BUMP
“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices.”
— George Orwell.
“Elections are a kind of advance auctions of stolen goods.”
— H.L. Mencken
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”
— Aesop
Also, the area where they built Ford Field was part of the vacant land left over from the ‘68 riots.
Back in the late 1800s it was an area called the ‘Brickyards’ and was one of the wealthiest areas of Detroit.
But they burned it during the riots and left piles of rubble in the area thru the late 1980s.
Never cleared it, never cleaned it up.
I was given a tour of Detroit in 2003 by a woman who lived there.... she had posted on Virtual Tourist the top rated travelog of the city. In that area it was so bad that she jumped out of her car, took a picture, jumped back in and locked the doors. This was about a mile west of Ford Field. I’m a big guy and we walked through the area... there was a couple of the original houses left, the rest had been cleared. Watch a drug deal go down in the middle of the afternoon. Guy walked up to one of the old houses, the window opened, they did a transaction, the window closed and the guy walked away. The was about 1/4 mile from DIA.
I was born in Detroit and grew up in the suburbs.
Remember going down to Hudson’s for shopping and the Thanksgiving parade as a kid. Can’t stand going there...
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