  Taj920 Member Username: Taj920 Post Number: 308 Registered: 01-2004 |
Is there anything left there? Hunter House -- gone; Intermezzos -- gone; Centre Street Pub -- gone. Had so much potential. | ||
Leoqueen Member Username: Leoqueen Post Number: 2043 Registered: 07-2004 |
GR N'Namdi has a wonderful gallery in the Intermezzo space. It is his temporary space until his gallery complex is complete on Forest near Woodward. Interestingly, George had his first gallery there in Harmonie Park in 1981. | ||
Detroitstar Member Username: Detroitstar Post Number: 1107 Registered: 01-2006 |
Coach's Corner sports bar. It's a place that lacks character, but it still counts I guess. | ||
Detroitduo Member Username: Detroitduo Post Number: 901 Registered: 06-2005 |
Mezzanine, Jazzy Java Cafe, Shoe store, Fur coat store, Rags.... Lots of great places down that adjacent street. | ||
Deandub11 Member Username: Deandub11 Post Number: 246 Registered: 05-2006 |
The shoe store is called G.O.A.T www.DetroitArmy.com | ||
Dbc Member Username: Dbc Post Number: 120 Registered: 09-2006 |
Lola's is there. Never been, but I hear it's nice. | ||
Erikd Member Username: Erikd Post Number: 1016 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote: The Hunter House will be replaced by a new restaurant that is set to open later this month, the Intermezzo space is currently occupied by the GR N'Namdi gallery, and the Center Street Pub has been replaced by the Grand Central Lounge. | ||
Hunchentoot Member Username: Hunchentoot Post Number: 85 Registered: 03-2005 |
Also "The Rhino" | ||
Downtown_remix Member Username: Downtown_remix Post Number: 616 Registered: 03-2007 |
lola's is a hot restaurant/bar next to the RINO. HARMONY CAFE is on GRAND RIVER. MILNER ARMS HAS A COOL LIL CAFE. | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 4736 Registered: 02-2005 |
So why is there some master plan coming down from the City to re-make Harmonie Park? Seems like one of the more active and well put-together corners of Detroit if you ask me. Targeting the Madison-Lenox site for a residential development in probably more important that trying to mess around with an already-nice part of downtown. | ||
Rjlj Member Username: Rjlj Post Number: 516 Registered: 11-2003 |
^^^ Yes, what you are saying sounds logical but you are dealing with illogical leadership. | ||
Downtown_remix Member Username: Downtown_remix Post Number: 617 Registered: 03-2007 |
Harmoney Park has potential to be 3 times more successful. Greektown and harmoney park should have a seamless flow, allowing greektown goers to easily glide into harmony park and have the same senergy as greektown. | ||
Motorcitydave Member Username: Motorcitydave Post Number: 130 Registered: 11-2004 |
I think Gratiot really divides it from Greektown... and the cross walk situation (and the lack of a cross walk on the one corner) doesn't help that flow either. | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 4738 Registered: 02-2005 |
I think it's possible, D_remix. Those two corners of downtown are very close to each other...a five minute walk I make often, but it does seem a bit segmented because of all the surface lots and Gratiot Ave. Indeed, the crosswalk situation is a little weird at Randolph-Gratiot. | ||
401don Member Username: 401don Post Number: 417 Registered: 11-2007 |
Parking is tough in Harmonie Park. I don't mind walking but it's not a spot where you can find street parking to check out the restaurants. A couple of years ago I paid to park in the surface lot across Gratiot and walked over to Intermezzo. The place was empty but they were completely booked for one sitting before an Opera House event. Very annoying. | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 2480 Registered: 10-2006 |
"Parking is tough in Harmonie Park. I don't mind walking but it's not a spot where you can find street parking to check out the restaurants." What?••• It has parking all along the side of most all the blocks through there and feeding that triangle: http://maps.google.com/maps?f= q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Harmonie+Pa rk+Music%E2%80%8E+detroit+mi&i e=UTF8&ll=42.33624,-83.046478& spn=0.0014,0.0025&t=h&z=19 I'm not promising that they won't be filled when one goes down there, but what do you want? | ||
Sean_of_detroit Member Username: Sean_of_detroit Post Number: 269 Registered: 03-2008 |
Does anyone have any statistics showing how far people are willing to walk from a residence or parking space? Greektown's free, is that to far? What about the Opera House and Compuware garages? How much are they? Can you get parking validation in Harmony Park. Could a People Mover stop at Macomb and Brush help? It definitely doesn't help that not many people live in that area. I agree that developing the Madison-Lenox site would have a positive effect on that area. I also agree that Gratiot separates it from Greektown. The biggest (and most easily fixed) problem is the lack of a crosswalk across Gratiot at the Broadway/Randolph/Gratiot/Maco mb intersection. It's really kind of dangerous. | ||
Detroitduo Member Username: Detroitduo Post Number: 903 Registered: 06-2005 |
That intersection is dangerous in a CAR, let alone trying to traverse it by foot! I say, traffic circle! It's actually a perfect solution for that crappy intersection and it would make it pedestrian friendly, too. Who works for MDOT... I have a suggestion for them... :-) | ||
Waymooreland Member Username: Waymooreland Post Number: 47 Registered: 11-2007 |
Right on, Charlottepaul -- this city has so much friggin' parking, it's disgusting. Just because there isn't free street parking directly in front of the restaurant you want to go to when you want to go there doesn't mean that Detroit lacks parking. Quite the opposite, in fact. If you want to go to Harmonie Park on an Opera or baseball night, park for free in the Greektown structure and ride the People Mover to Broadway station. Done. Or cough up the dough to park in the ginormous Opera house structure and walk down the block. Or park for free in Brush Park and walk 10-15 minutes. I could go on and on... | ||
Digitalvision Member Username: Digitalvision Post Number: 817 Registered: 11-2003 |
I understand Waymooreland, but most people want to park right out front. I've said this before - my experience is that you give people a free garage or make them pay to be on the street, they take the street parking every time and then complain that there is no parking. We live in a suburban mindset in this region. Might be why most of my friends have left for Chicago, San Francisco, New York and Boston. | ||
Detroit_pride Member Username: Detroit_pride Post Number: 16 Registered: 02-2008 |
Whats the deal with the lot on gratiot across from the Hilton...I believe it used to be Hot Sams'? Recently torn down with construction fencing. | ||
Rjlj Member Username: Rjlj Post Number: 520 Registered: 11-2003 |
There is too much parking in this city and too many parking lots. Get off your fat lazy Michigan azz and walk for once. | ||
401don Member Username: 401don Post Number: 435 Registered: 11-2007 |
I really got crucified for complaining about parking and rightly so. Being from out of town, my problem was that due to the high turnover and constant changes I want to check out the restaurants in Harmonie Park before before paying to park. The one time I did pay first, I was refused entry into an empty Intermezzo. Good thing I'm on the forum now or I would probably have paid this weekend before heading to Hunter House. Greektown garage it is! |
