  Genesyxx Member Username: Genesyxx Post Number: 898 Registered: 02-2004 |
I'm happy to see it go. I snapped a pic of it this morning. http://i28.tinypic.com/ztv0w.j pg | ||
Rax Member Username: Rax Post Number: 331 Registered: 11-2007 |
Where will everyone drink and smoke weed now? | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 2274 Registered: 09-2007 |
Capitol Park. | ||
Rax Member Username: Rax Post Number: 332 Registered: 11-2007 |
Capitol Park? I thought that was being miraculously fixed by the presence of the Book Cadillac? | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 2276 Registered: 09-2007 |
Now THAT'S a good one Rax, you had me going for a second. Besides, they still have Cass Park. (Message edited by DetroitRise on June 03, 2008) | ||
Tetsua Member Username: Tetsua Post Number: 1659 Registered: 01-2004 |
What are they doing to this space? | ||
Chris_rohn Member Username: Chris_rohn Post Number: 451 Registered: 04-2005 |
Landscaping. | ||
Professorscott Member Username: Professorscott Post Number: 1339 Registered: 12-2006 |
Because the sheriff now does security for DDOT, you occasionally see deputies at Capitol Park, so it's not quite as wild as it used to be, but it's still not a place I'd hang with the kids at. By the way, if you're one of the panhandlers at Capitol Park, let me ask you something: can't you think of a better place to hit people up for money than at the bus station? You figure somehow we got money, even though we're taking the bus? Just wondering. | ||
Chris_rohn Member Username: Chris_rohn Post Number: 452 Registered: 04-2005 |
If you're at the bus depot, your story about how you need 'just 41 cents, only 41 cents man' to get on the bus has the credibility level pushed up 1/2 notch. | ||
Mayor_sekou Member Username: Mayor_sekou Post Number: 2427 Registered: 09-2006 |
I saw some "residents" of the area expressing outrage that they were landscaping when I was down there this morning, kind of funny listening to them. | ||
Bussey Member Username: Bussey Post Number: 665 Registered: 12-2003 |
What used to be there other than landscaping? | ||
Bearinabox Member Username: Bearinabox Post Number: 684 Registered: 04-2006 |
Thick, dense bushes and homeless people, mostly. | ||
Evelyn Member Username: Evelyn Post Number: 277 Registered: 02-2005 |
I thought there were some rickety-looking benches there as well. | ||
Detroitpetanque Member Username: Detroitpetanque Post Number: 110 Registered: 09-2006 |
Now we play petanque there. In the afternoons. 12-1pm during the workweek. | ||
Downtown_dave Member Username: Downtown_dave Post Number: 239 Registered: 07-2005 |
The rickety wooden benches were also "exhumed." | ||
Blondy Member Username: Blondy Post Number: 1229 Registered: 10-2003 |
The city's intent is to make it a "dog friendly" area. Watch this forum for more details! | ||
Dds Member Username: Dds Post Number: 654 Registered: 10-2006 |
Looks like a great place to have a B-B-Q now! | ||
Grumpyoldlady Member Username: Grumpyoldlady Post Number: 112 Registered: 06-2005 |
I had a panhandler ask me for money at a bus stop on Larned. All I had was my bus pass...literally NO money in my purse other than a few loose pennies in the bottom. When I showed him my bus pass and told him I had no money, he got right in my face with his yellow tooth stubs and then pushed me into the street right in front of a bus. Fast action by the bus driver is all that saved my life! | ||
Mayor_sekou Member Username: Mayor_sekou Post Number: 2430 Registered: 09-2006 |
Wow. Maybe you need not come in the city. First some natives pull guns out on you when you entered your old neighborhood and now you have people randomly pushing you in front of buses. Detroit just aint the place for you. | ||
Grumpyoldlady Member Username: Grumpyoldlady Post Number: 113 Registered: 06-2005 |
The panhandler incident happened a number of years ago when I worked downtown. Now I don't even live in the state, but still have an interest in Detroit, especially the old buildings and my old stomping grounds. I'm just a gray haired old lady...not really grumpy, lol. I also got pinched on the butt by another panhandler who walked behind me while I waited to cross Michigan Avenue. By the time I spun around he was running down the street cackling like a crazed chicken, lol. | ||
Eastsidedame Member Username: Eastsidedame Post Number: 252 Registered: 12-2006 |
Grumpyoldlady: I'm so sorry you've had such terrible experiences with the riff-raff around. When it's a busy, respectable and profit making area, you'd better believe none of that cr*p would be tolerated. Thank you for caring about the city. So many people (even my own parents, who lived most of their lives on the east side) would just as soon see it rot. Keep the faith and stay away from Michigan Avenue (at least on foot) until property values go up and the crazy chickens self-evict. Want you to stay safe. (You carry weaponry, I hope!) | ||
Sean_of_detroit Member Username: Sean_of_detroit Post Number: 669 Registered: 03-2008 |
Michigan Avenue? Is Michigan Avenue in the the CBD and Corktown really that bad? It doesn't look great, but I hardly think it is bad enough to avoid. How are property values going to improve if everyone just avoids the area? Am I the only one who sees the flawed logic in that? As far as panhandlers go, if they are asking for an odd amount (say 41 cents instead of 50 cents), then I would bet that they are asking for drug related purposes. Who else would ask for 41 cents? | ||
Rax Member Username: Rax Post Number: 371 Registered: 11-2007 |
The 41 cents is the exact remaining amount needed for a half pint of 5 O'Clock. The dopeman isn't worried about 41 cents, trust me. | ||
Strathcona Member Username: Strathcona Post Number: 24 Registered: 03-2008 |
Sean_of_detroit, I once again Congratulate you on your optimism—we really need more people who are as committed and concerned as you are. It will be interesting to read your posts in a few years. In the future I would try to avoid saying such things as, "I am the only," it is just as bad as saying "never." Always remember, you are not the first one to experience these things, and you will not be the last. As a friend of mine has always said, "you have to be a little cynical and a little sarcastic to live in this town." You also have to fight everyday to NOT become bitter—it is hard to do, believe me. On that note I can comfortably say that I don't think I could ever live anywhere else. paz, pace, paix! -The one that knows you post a lot. | ||
Dds Member Username: Dds Post Number: 656 Registered: 10-2006 |
quote: "The dopeman don't take nickels" was one of the first lessons I learned doing business in Detroit. Never, ever exchange a solid dollar for change. | ||
Dabirch Member Username: Dabirch Post Number: 2544 Registered: 06-2004 |
Dds - I actually remember that lesson being taught to a couple of others as well. "What they don't teach you at Harvard Business School..." And for all of those who say Dds never offers anything -- just take a look at the brilliant insight he just provided. |
