  Tetsua Member Username: Tetsua Post Number: 1390 Registered: 01-2004 |
Not that we have a huge amount of street vendors in downtown / midtown, but vendors can now apply to do vending through the entire city. http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .dll/article?AID=/20080115/NEW S01/80115045 | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 11340 Registered: 12-2003 |
This is huge. Now, to quash the current monopolist in this (from what I've come to understand), ol' Bert in the Market. Go-karts...go! | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 2520 Registered: 04-2006 |
Detroit's gonna have it's own Canal St! That's World Class. | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 2521 Registered: 04-2006 |
On a serious note, does anyone know why street vendors were outlawed before? | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 1793 Registered: 07-2004 |
Khlav-kalash!  ... and a crab juice, please. | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 1794 Registered: 07-2004 |
This from an MT column by Ric Bohy: He was mentally challenged — he said “ruh-tawded” — and had been trying to peddle balloons on the downtown streets, unsuccessfully, for the second summer running. Customers weren’t a problem; my guess was that folks responded to the man-child’s pleasant face. It was The City. He and his handmade, freshly painted pushcart had been stopped by a cop on his first day out the season before, and told to beat it until he got the proper permits. This began a bureaucratic nightmare that hadn’t ended. His nemesis was a city planner with a peculiar vision of a revived downtown. He adorned one boulevard with lighted red monkey bars to give an urbane air to a retail lane lined with vacant shops. Every time the Balloon Man jumped through a licensing hoop this guy put in front of him, he was shown three more. The cart had to be just so, the wheels just so, the signage just so, ad nauseam. |
