 
Rhymeswithrawk
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Username: Rhymeswithrawk
Post Number: 818
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2007 - 5:23 pm: |    |
Wow. I didn't realize they started tearing down the vacant building on Forest at Woodward. About time they tore that schitt down!
Watched the wrecking ball take down a few walls before I went on my way today. |
Mackinaw
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Username: Mackinaw
Post Number: 3364
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2007 - 6:41 pm: | |
If its not the Church's Chicken that's getting torn down, then I'm pretty disappointed. What was wrong with that old structure at the NW corner? This will make a huge gap along the north side of forest all the way to Woodward...primed for development. Does Wayne own a bunch of lots there? Will it be more housing?
To the north of that site will be the location of a new restaurant (from the Fishbones owner). |
Rocket_city
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Username: Rocket_city
Post Number: 339
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Friday, July 27, 2007 - 9:15 am: | |
From my understanding, the old Forest Apartment Tower will not be replaced with anything right away, rather a surface parking lot. However, with Wayne's ambitious future plan, one would believe that in order to further their goals, this property would be of high profile.
I actually like the massing of the building in that area. It makes for a closed-in urban streetscape but is still shorter than the iconic Old Main a block or 2 away.
There's a lot of potential for Forest Avenue and I think with time, we'll see urbanesque improvements, but for now, we'll have to settle for a transition period...which admittedly will probably be a little slower than what we'd hope for for the time being. |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 1708
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Friday, July 27, 2007 - 10:34 pm: | |
I still say tear down Old Main. |
Barnesfoto
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Username: Barnesfoto
Post Number: 3839
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, July 27, 2007 - 10:42 pm: | |
I say that if Ray took the English Class that caused him pain over again, he would have a better time and his bad feelings about the building would vanish.
Of course, I have no idea if English Classes are still held in Old Main, but it was my favorite building from Freshman Year.
(Had a couple non-academic adventures on one of those fire escapes...) |
Rhymeswithrawk
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Username: Rhymeswithrawk
Post Number: 820
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, July 28, 2007 - 2:04 pm: | |
I still say tear down Old Main.
Say wha-? |
Leoqueen
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Username: Leoqueen
Post Number: 1607
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, July 28, 2007 - 2:11 pm: | |
The renovation is being started on the gallery building behind the Church's Chicken.....George N'Namdi has moved his gallery temporarily in the space that used to be Intermezzo. It originally was his gallery back in the early 80's |
Rhymeswithrawk
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Username: Rhymeswithrawk
Post Number: 822
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, July 28, 2007 - 7:07 pm: | |
I thought the building behind Church's was an auto-repair shop? |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 1711
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, July 28, 2007 - 7:46 pm: | |
Barnsfoto nailed it, rawk. That English instructor (hell, was a kid doing post grad work) was the most miserable mf I ever crossed paths with.
But I think the building's ugly, anyway, with all those unmatched additions over the last 100 years.
(Message edited by Ray1936 on July 28, 2007) |
Bussey
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Username: Bussey
Post Number: 549
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, July 28, 2007 - 7:51 pm: | |
rhymeswithrawk....what building are you talking about?
Forest Apartments on Forest @ CASS or the building right at the corner of Forest and WOODWARD, next to American Masala...name eludes me now.
please clarify |
Andylinn
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Username: Andylinn
Post Number: 466
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, July 28, 2007 - 7:53 pm: | |
the "front" entrance (is it the cass entrance?) is majestic inside... beautiful... i always entered off of hancock to that "modern" basement area with the grad studios... didn't realize how cool parts of the building were until i was flyering for an art opening one time last year... |
Urbanize
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Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 1908
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, July 28, 2007 - 7:57 pm: | |
"If its not the Church's Chicken that's getting torn down, then I'm pretty disappointed."
Geez, leave the Fast Food Restaurants alone.
If you don't like those locations, don't bother them. I think they're pretty prime overall for Fast Food Restaurants. Then if someone threatened to close and Demolish the Lafayette/American, some of your big bulgy butts will be the one to organize all the Coney Fans in the City and have a thousand man March. |
Andylinn
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Username: Andylinn
Post Number: 468
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, July 28, 2007 - 8:00 pm: | |
urbanize... your comparison is not very well constructed... though their food choices are basically the same un healthy crap that we all love (churches, mcdonalds, lafayette, american) the coneys downtown are completely urban in aesthetic nature. NO drive through, NO parking, part of a mixed use block, tightly packed and dense. beautiful... a fast food drive through on the other hand, is suburban, and does NOT belong on detroit's greatest street. especially just miles from downtown... |
Urbanize
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Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 1910
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, July 28, 2007 - 8:07 pm: | |
"beautiful... a fast food drive through on the other hand, is suburban, and does NOT belong on detroit's greatest street. especially just miles from downtown..."
Oh wow, now restaurants are Suburban. I guess Gas Stations and Liquor Stores will be suburban next, right?
The Coney Islands are no better than the rest of them. The owners could really care less about history, Urban aesthetic and Food Quality. They're just restaurants. You're just making a big double standard if you disagree. |