  Rokk_krinn Member Username: Rokk_krinn Post Number: 40 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.249.60.2 |
Didn't there used to be a sales trailer at the old Sears site in Highland Park? I drove by yesterday and noticed the site seems completely vacant now. Did the re-development deal for condos and retail fall through? Any future plans? | ||
623kraw Member Username: 623kraw Post Number: 780 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.41.224.200 |
Here's Sears in its 7th year as a fenced-off empty field:  | ||
Innercity_detroit Member Username: Innercity_detroit Post Number: 2 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 4.165.105.126 |
The developers discovered that the site have contaminated soil,(do not ask me what was found in the soil) however the state dis-approved,and the developers had to leave the site.Maybe CNN should visit Dearborn to see if waste from the old Ford plant had anything to do with it. | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 3764 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 141.217.174.221 |
Another empty promises from the G.R.E.E.D. Corps. Highland Park still remains exploited and all ghettotized since the 1960s. | ||
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine Post Number: 891 Registered: 05-2005 Posted From: 198.208.159.20 |
isn't that where the old street car depot was? | ||
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker Post Number: 868 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 63.41.8.99 |
The DSR depot was behind it on Manchester. See the DSR thread, page? for some old aerial photos of it. https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/5/60222.html?1140714647 | ||
Mrsjdaniels Member Username: Mrsjdaniels Post Number: 165 Registered: 08-2005 Posted From: 71.144.119.225 |
i wonder what the reason was...i just thought there was no interest. they've had this on the pipeline for atleast 5 years that i know of | ||
Robtruth Member Username: Robtruth Post Number: 3 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 4.229.60.235 |
I grew up in Highland Park. Went to Sears many many times. As an adult I thought it ironic that with all the beat up property in HP, the Sears store right until the time of it's shuttering was the NUMBER ONE SELLER of paint in the entire Sears chain. That store was to HP as was Hudson's to downtown Detroit; just in a smaller fashion. | ||
Neilr Member Username: Neilr Post Number: 207 Registered: 06-2005 Posted From: 69.242.215.65 |
Robtruth, I remember a newspaper article about the time the closing of the Sears store was announced. The manager of the Sears store said that when people needed paint or a hammer, they came to the HP Sears; but when they wanted to go an a shopping spree and buy big-ticket items, they went to the Sears at Oakland Mall. | ||
Detroitman Member Username: Detroitman Post Number: 931 Registered: 06-2004 Posted From: 216.78.37.177 |
Here's the latest on the plans for the Sears site redevelopment from today's Freep. "HP Devco, Highland Park's development agency, has signed an agreement with Detroit-area developer Michael Curis to create about 40,000 square feet of retail shopping on the site of the former Sears, Roebuck and Co. store on Woodward Avenue. Construction is expected to start this summer. Curis previously developed the Riverbend Plaza and Mack Alter Square retail projects on Detroit's east side. Known as the Shops at Woodward Place, the project will be anchored by Aldi Foods, an international chain of more than 5,000 grocers." http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .dll/article?AID=/20060316/BUS INESS07/603160514/1020/BUSINES S | ||
1953 Member Username: 1953 Post Number: 726 Registered: 12-2004 Posted From: 209.104.146.146 |
Will it also be a sprawling, non-urban development like Model T Plaza? (Message edited by 1953 on March 16, 2006) | ||
Mw2gs Member Username: Mw2gs Post Number: 168 Registered: 03-2005 Posted From: 69.216.108.32 |
Oh great....another fucking strip mall. Its really gonna be great to have more choices for our dollar store, coney island, check cashing, chinese food, insurance, and beauty supply needs. |
