  Detroitej72 Member Username: Detroitej72 Post Number: 99 Registered: 05-2006 Posted From: 66.184.3.44 |
Just wondering what is the purpose of the land cleared next to the McDonald's at the NE corner of 7 Mile and Woodward? The areas' all fenced off and many houses have been demolished. Anybody have any info? | ||
Eastsidedog Member Username: Eastsidedog Post Number: 644 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 69.220.142.7 |
outlet mall oh yeah... | ||
Boshna Member Username: Boshna Post Number: 139 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 71.227.103.29 |
I am pretty sure the project is a church | ||
Thecarl Member Username: Thecarl Post Number: 872 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 69.14.30.175 |
the chaldean community has contributed to, and secured funding for, massive redevelopment at this location - including an $800,000 grant to develop a community center. this area is being referred to as "chaldean town." | ||
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit Post Number: 582 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 69.246.10.173 |
that is the location for Perfecting CHurch's new building. http://perfectingchurch.org/ | ||
Jenniferl Member Username: Jenniferl Post Number: 305 Registered: 03-2004 Posted From: 4.229.57.208 |
That area has looked like that for quite a few years now. They tore almost everything down (it was mostly abandoned anyhow), but they haven't built anything to replace it. The land has just been sitting there with that fence around it. | ||
Thecarl Member Username: Thecarl Post Number: 875 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 69.14.30.175 |
jenniferl, if you are talking about the area at the northeast corner of woodward and seven mile, you are greatly mistaken! | ||
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit Post Number: 583 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 69.246.10.173 |
thecarl is right.. that area has not looked like that for a while. It has been only a year MAYBE since it was all leveled. Perfecting Church had a formal ground breaking a few months back on the site. | ||
Ray Member Username: Ray Post Number: 730 Registered: 06-2004 Posted From: 68.42.133.85 |
Drove through chaldean town for the first time today. It's very interesting but it seemed to be just a block or two. Is there more to it? Does anyone have pictures? The East Side has always been a strange and mysterious land to me. What is the history of E Seven Mile by the way? I saw an interesting picture of it from around 1920 (I think) when it was a dirt road, much like the dirt mile roads way up north. The road is only two lanes even today, which surprized me. I guess I would have thought that would be four given the massive volume of traffic that it must have carried in its hey day. That road went from farmland to suburban style (at the time) single family housing to distressed urban region in the space of 70 years (from 1920 to 1990). That's pretty incredible when you think about it. | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 1107 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 69.242.223.42 |
Seven Mile is good if you like bread and such from a few bakeries near John R. | ||
Eastsidedog Member Username: Eastsidedog Post Number: 649 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 12.47.224.8 |
sorry, I think the outlet mall will be further north, closer to 8 mile. | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 10340 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 64.118.137.226 |
Perfecting Church....so they'll serve beer and have sports on tv? | ||
Detroit313 Member Username: Detroit313 Post Number: 154 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 72.229.136.103 |
It's going to be a church and housing. I remember back a couple of months ago when pastor Winans did the ground breaking ceremony with Oprah. 313 | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 4601 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 141.217.174.229 |
The chaldean community has contributed to, and secured funding for, massive redevelopment at this location - including an $800,000 grant to develop a community center. this area is being referred to as "chaldean town" HAH! That big ol' vacant lot near Woodward is for a BIG BLACK BAPTIST CHURCH FOR REV. MARVIN WINANS AND HIS VERY POWERFUL CHURCH FAMILY CALLED PERFECTING MINISTRIES. That land should have used to futher the exspansion for the dying Chaldeantown community. So far there are NO plans in the works for a Ms. Maria Faukouri's beautiful 21st Century Chaldeantown. Ms. Faukouri planned it 5 years ago, but she didn't figure out the other proposals for the further development of what's left of the Detroit's Chaldean ghettohood. As for right now Chaldean town is slowly dying. Few Chaldean folks in Detroit are slowly moving to other areas besides moving to Oak Park, Southfield, Hazel Park and Ferndale as known as (Gaydale) but a few Chaldeans are continuing to take a strong hold of possessing local supermarkets, collision shops, ghetto marts and gas stations around Detroit's gigantic black communities. If Ms Faukouri's from the ACC doens't plan for a new Chaldeantown community in Detroit, then it would die just like Chinatown, Poletown, Polonia, Paradise Valley, Black Bottom and Little Italy. | ||
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit Post Number: 590 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 65.42.23.2 |
"BIG BLACK BAPTIST CHURCH FOR REV. MARVIN WINANS AND HIS VERY POWERFUL CHURCH FAMILY CALLED PERFECTING MINISTRIES." <--- what an undertone "That land should have used to futher the exspansion for the dying Chaldeantown community." I'm sure if someone had the money and desire this would have been done, there is money in the Chaldean community. | ||
Dtwrhrt Member Username: Dtwrhrt Post Number: 6 Registered: 07-2006 Posted From: 66.219.88.34 |
Wasn't there a Cunningham drug store at that location years ago? I may not have the name right but I do remember a drug store. |
