Slipped into this Detroit City Planning Commission hearing, it sounds like they might be getting rid of a sculpture park along Alexandrine? Would that be the Robert Sestok park that has only been there a few years, I wonder?
It would be parking for the redevelopment of that school at Selden and the Lodge. Glad to hear it's being preserved. I share Lauren Hood's view that they need to seriously step up including Black people from Detroit (and paying them) on their team.
It's wild that the conversion of a former public school into private business is the agenda item preceding the conversion of the State Fairgrounds into an amazon warehouse.

Detroit deserves public space and public services.
HOLY SHIT BOB SESTOK IS ON THE CALL????
He's in favor of the development and will be contributing two sculptures to it.

Wow?
Mix of for and against comments on the conversion of the school on Selden. A lot of the "for" comments are people who mention biz or multiple properties they own nearby when they lead into their comment. Petite Detroit bourgeoisie
Tweets are mine, as ever :)
I didn't catch (and it doesn't matter tbh) who just made this comment but someone described the project as the "Crown Jewel" of Midtown, which is... a lot, honestly

Midtown has a lot of things in it, no need to overstate. You can just say you personally want it

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Nov 15, 2022
Hello!🚆

I’ll be live-tweeting the MDOT Detroit New Center Intermodal Facility (DNCIF) project at 5:30pm for #DETdocumenters.
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The new intermodal facility in Detroit would replace the current Amtrak station aka the Amshack, and combine it with buses like Greyhound, as well as connecting to local transit and being better set up for cabs and rideshare.

michigan.gov/mdot/projects-…
Outside of my work as a Documenter, I'm a transportation professional and a huge fan of Amtrak.

I ride Amtrak regularly when it's not a pandemic.

Very curious about this project!
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Oct 20, 2022
I am on the monthly DDOT community input meeting call.

I don't have the bandwidth to do a full Grenadine Livetweet™ today, but here's a few highlights:

DDOT themselves admitted they've been having especially tough reliability problems, and riders agree
Sounds like DDOT reliability is extra bad after 6pm.

It's an issue of not having enough drivers.

Dedicated advocate Cunningham says "By any means necessary, we need to get these drivers."
Cunningham also notes that MetroLift should have options for people to ride with just a couple hours' notice, not a day in advance.
Read 25 tweets
Oct 19, 2022
I highly recommend this stunning longread by @superanne, who tracked down the woman her house was illegally taken from.

I fully believe Tomeka was not told about the coming foreclosure, as someone who's been the one to let residents know myself.

bridgedetroit.com/i-was-given-a-…
Tomeka's house was taken after two years, not the required three, and Wayne County appears to have lost a bunch of her payments.

The house she paid $700 for got a five-digit assessment. It was not worth that.
Wayne County and Detroit owe Tomeka restitution, and I hope Anne shining this light will help that happen.

Many other now-former homeowners across Detroit deserve the same.

Much to absorb from this piece.
Read 4 tweets
Oct 18, 2022
I just heard the most unhinged north city story I’ve heard in my life.

Actually mostly a “how cops act in north city” story.

I am physically sweating from my friend calling me and telling me this.
I have to think about how much I say on here / possibly check with my friend but the short version is my friends heard consistent info about a body being buried on a Paul McKee lot right by their houses, but despite having this murder 90% solved SLMPD would not come dig
There’s so much I want to say. I might just have to write if it down privately to process it. The cops made my friends provide the shovel. The cops did not end up being the ones to dig the guy up, a local elected official did
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Sep 22, 2021
Seems like an appropriate priority when DDOT is about to cut three entire bus routes and didn’t even put up signs at all the bus stops they’re cutting

Folks are experiencing FOUR HOUR WAITS for buses and the state is funding [checks notes] a fancy car charger
Let me be clear I’m speaking just for me, personally, here.

The majority of politicians in Michigan do not understand or care abt public transit. They do not give one single shit about a Detroit city bus, or understand how badly our godawful transit hurts Detroiters and Detroit
Decisionmakers in Detroit and Michigan really think we can somehow recover, be economically competitive, and get people into jobs with Detroit having F-, embarrassing, nonfunctional public transportation
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Sep 20, 2021
Soooo many people were saying this back then. It was so obvious.

They used volunteers to plant their trees, didn’t even pay for that.
I remember seeing one of the top people from Hantz Farms speaking at a planning conference.

They thought it was a friendly audience so they were just letting the contempt for Detroit and Detroiters fly. They thought we weren’t in the room.
After the fifth or sixth time the man from Hantz Farms referred to that part of the East Side as “a backwater,” I raised my hand and shouted “I LIVE in that backwater!”
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