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 yokes
     
Location: Toronto
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I aim to misbehave
 |  |  |  | Detroit City Council Votes for Emergency Demolition of Michigan Central Station
< on 4/7/2009 9:02 PM >
|  | | | http://www.wxyz.co...jTvRw.cspx?rss=785
DETROIT (WXYZ) - Detroit City Council has passed a resolution calling for the emergency demolition of the Michigan Central Depot. The measure also calls for the city to charge the building's owner, Manny Maroun.
Mayor Ken Cockrel, jr. has already put the demolition in his request for federal stimulus funds. He's asking for $3.6 million. Cockrel has also vowed to go after Maroun for reimbursement.
Today's measure seeks to expedite the process.
The law department will present a report on how the resolution can be enforced when council returns from its spring recess on April 28.
"Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men." - Richard Nickel |
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yokes
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
I aim to misbehave
| | | | Re: Detroit City Council Votes for Emergency Demolition of Michigan Central Station
<Reply # 1 on 4/7/2009 9:09 PM >
| | | | Longer article
http://www.detnews...O/904070421/&imw=Y
Detroit council votes to demolish Michigan Central Depot, charge owner
David Josar / The Detroit News
Detroit -- The City Council today passed a resolution calling for the emergency demolition of the Michigan Central Depot and then going after billionaire owner Manuel "Matty" Moroun to recoup the costs.
Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. has already put the demolition in his request for federal economic stimulus funds and vowed to go after the building's owner to be reimbursed.
However, council members want to expedite the process.
"We can't wait any longer," said Councilwoman Barbara-Rose Collins, who sponsored the resolution. "It's been an eyesore for too long."
Cockrel had asked for $3.6 million for the demolition. Collins said that money could be used for the neighborhoods.
Chimed in Council President Monica Conyers: "He has billions."
The City Council passed the resolution by a voice vote; the opposing tally was from Councilwoman Sheila Cockrel. Councilwoman Brenda Jones, who is hospitalized with a pulmonary embolism, was absent.
The law department will present a report on how the resolution can be enforced when the City Council returns from its spring recess on April 28.
Dan Stamper, a spokesman for Moroun and his companies, did not immediately return a call for comment.
Kenneth Cockrel's press secretary, Daniel Cherrin, said the mayor is proceeding with his plan. He was unsure of a timetable to raze the train station, but said any stimulus project must be shovel-ready in 120 days and completed within 18 months.
"This would happen very soon," he said.
The building has been vacant since Jan. 6, 1988, when Amtrak discontinued using it for rail service. It was purchased by Controlled Terminal Inc., owned by Moroun, for back taxes.
At times, Moroun has said it should be used as a casino and a replacement for Cobo Center, and at one point former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said he had selected the fenced-off compound as the city's new criminal justice facility.
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aurelie
  
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| | | Re: Detroit City Council Votes for Emergency Demolition of Michigan Central Station
<Reply # 2 on 4/7/2009 9:10 PM >
| | | | argh.
i hope i can get back up there in time.
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yokes
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
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| | | | Re: Detroit City Council Votes for Emergency Demolition of Michigan Central Station
<Reply # 3 on 4/7/2009 9:11 PM >
| | | | Somewhere, Michael Bay is picking up a phone.
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Boffo
 
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| | Re: Detroit City Council Votes for Emergency Demolition of Michigan Central Station
<Reply # 4 on 4/7/2009 9:14 PM >
| | | | Is it just me or does anyone else think that Detroit needs to get its priorities straight.
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argonian
Location: Toronto, ON
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| | Re: Detroit City Council Votes for Emergency Demolition of Michigan Central Station
<Reply # 5 on 4/7/2009 9:21 PM >
| | | | I agree with you. They have to check their definition of eyesore. I have been there a couple of times and there are always tourists outside looking at it. It is drawing decent folk into the neighourhood.
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D'void
Location: The Wild Mid-West
Gender: Male
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| | | Re: Detroit City Council Votes for Emergency Demolition of Michigan Central Station
<Reply # 6 on 4/7/2009 9:56 PM >
| | | | Posted by argonian
I agree with you. They have to check their definition of eyesore. I have been there a couple of times and there are always tourists outside looking at it. It is drawing decent folk into the neighourhood.
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Unfortunately for us, our city council seems to think anything a white person would like too look at is an eyesore. All this is a bunch of non-sense. The Billionaire owner hasn't knocked it down yet and I doubt he will. He's in a dispute for rights to own Riverside Park to build a new bridge.
The council like to make these knee jerk statements and get the whole town in an uproar to make it look like they are actually doing something. Remember its election season in 6 months here. All those corruption cases won't cover themselves up.
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junkyard
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| | | Re: Detroit City Council Votes for Emergency Demolition of Michigan Central Station
<Reply # 7 on 4/7/2009 11:23 PM >
| | | | Detroilet is an eyesore then. That building looks way nicer than quite a few places, like most of the rest of the city. The city looks like Nagasaki circa 1945ish in parts and they're complaining about a building that DOESN'T look like it was bombed, nuclear or otherwise, or burned half to the ground, AND still has people living in it. My guess is they have it in for this guy. Like he cares, if he has that kind of money.
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Curious_George
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| | Re: Detroit City Council Votes for Emergency Demolition of Michigan Central Station
<Reply # 8 on 4/7/2009 11:26 PM >
| | | | Posted by yokes
Somewhere, Michael Bay is picking up a phone.
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Ha ha ha, he does love using the building and the former threatre turned parking garage in his movies.
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imskippingbeats
Location: Detroit, MI & Fayetteville, NC
Gender: Female
My heart lies with Michigan Central.
| | | | Re: Detroit City Council Votes for Emergency Demolition of Michigan Central Station
<Reply # 9 on 4/8/2009 2:30 AM >
| | | | is there anything we can do?
i mean besides online petitions and what not.
we collectively need to boycott the demolition.
there has to be something..
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/-/ooligan
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| | Re: Detroit City Council Votes for Emergency Demolition of Michigan Central Station
<Reply # 10 on 4/8/2009 3:45 AM >
| | | | The Detroit City Council was making the same calls for immediate action TEN YEARS AGO when I was living in downtown Detroit & could see the Central Depot out my living room window, about a mile or two away.
Their clucking about it now is just busy-work to try to show that they're conducting important city business. Manny Maroun is a smart ol' bastard that lets them continually cluck-away and just ignores them.
City Council doesn't like Central Depot because it's come to represent Detroit so well -- it's the gravestone for what was once a wonderful, vibrant city. Removing that one structure will change the skyline of Detroit enough to make some naive people think that the City Council has made some forward-progress in cleaning up the city.
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junkyard
Location: LaCrosse, WI
Gender: Male
Strategic Beer Command where the metal hits the meat.
| | | Re: Detroit City Council Votes for Emergency Demolition of Michigan Central Station
<Reply # 11 on 4/8/2009 3:49 AM >
| | | | I couldn't agree more with Hoolie. He's old. He knows his shit. Dude's even older than my old arse. But he doesn't lie.
I drink gasoline for breakfeast and beer for dinner!
Any problem can be licked with a case of beer and a few sticks of dynamite.
Strategic Beer Command ruling the desert since 1995 http://www.strategic-beer-command.com |
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/-/ooligan
Location: Las Vegas area
Gender: Male
When in danger, when in doubt, RUN IN CIRCLES, SCREAM AND SHOUT!
| | Re: Detroit City Council Votes for Emergency Demolition of Michigan Central Station
<Reply # 12 on 4/8/2009 6:50 AM >
| | | | I couldn't agree more with junkyard!
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dt10111
Location: Metro Detrot
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Detroit City Council Votes for Emergency Demolition of Michigan Central Station
<Reply # 13 on 4/8/2009 11:28 AM >
| | | | Yeah, I wouldn't look for the building to be gone any time soon. We've heard this sort of thing before.
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bourbonbaby
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Detroit City Council Votes for Emergency Demolition of Michigan Central Station
<Reply # 14 on 4/8/2009 12:11 PM >
| | | | I really hope not. I'm heading that way in a little bit and it has been seeming as is every place I'm trying to check out is either demolished or burnt down about a month before I made it there.
Just keep it together for a little while longer Michigan Central!
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mANVIL
Gender: Male
| | Re: Detroit City Council Votes for Emergency Demolition of Michigan Central Station
<Reply # 15 on 4/8/2009 12:13 PM >
| | | | Only difference is this time there are readily available federal funds for "stimulus" projects like this.
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seicer
Location: New York
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Detroit City Council Votes for Emergency Demolition of Michigan Central Station
<Reply # 16 on 4/8/2009 12:59 PM >
| | | | How much would it cost to renovate? I've heard that, due to the building's construction, that it would cost as much to gut the structure and stabilize it for full restoration than it would to demolish it.
If this was another, more viable city, there would be much protest against this outside of this forum and similar forums. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be mass opposition to their plan.
[last edit 4/8/2009 1:00 PM by seicer - edited 1 times]
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seicer
Location: New York
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Detroit City Council Votes for Emergency Demolition of Michigan Central Station
<Reply # 17 on 4/8/2009 1:14 PM >
| | | | Whoops. It's in my own article --
"Current restoration costs of Michigan Central Station were estimated between $80 to $300 million."
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yokes
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
I aim to misbehave
| | | | Re: Detroit City Council Votes for Emergency Demolition of Michigan Central Station
<Reply # 18 on 4/8/2009 1:33 PM >
| | | | yeah... blowin' it up real good is much cheaper.
And there isn't exactly a shortage of cheap office space in the city already.
"Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men." - Richard Nickel |
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dt10111
Location: Metro Detrot
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Detroit City Council Votes for Emergency Demolition of Michigan Central Station
<Reply # 19 on 4/8/2009 7:06 PM >
| | | | I'm seeing some "Save the MSC" stuff pop up:
http://www.flickr....gancentralstation/
Saw a Facebook group earlier too, if you want to look it up.
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