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We are so excited to be launching our VERY FIRST Talking is Teaching Grocery Store on May 14th at Honey Bee Market La Colmena!!!! 🐝

Please join us as we celebrate, have fun, and see how Grocery Stores are fun learning spaces!! 🎈

Every one who attends will receive a FREE insulated Grocery Store Tote! So SAVE THE DATE and we hope to see you there!!🎉

Tough news to hear about such a beloved neighborhood event but the health and wellness of our community IS most important! We’re already looking forward to next year. 🙂🍀

For those interested in following the issue of Detroit’s Rain Tax and its impact on Detroit businesses and residents.

Good news for the investor often means bad news for current tenants. California investor (Alta Phoenix) lowballs previous long-term owner and then sells for major profit after investing a few gallons of paint. Greed at its best. We’ll be watching to see how long the current tenants last while that “market value waiting list” grows longer.
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Local investor joins Corktown 'gold rush' with apartment building purchase near train station Breadcrumb Home Real Estate February 01, 2019 04:23 PM Local investor joins Corktown 'gold rush' with apartment building purchase near train station Kurt Nagl Tweet Share Share Email More Print 16-unit building sold for less than $2 million 2072 Wabash St. is a couple of blocks from train station Bu...

Proposed DWSD tax coming down pipeline could drown Detroit businesses Breadcrumb Home Other Voices Other Voices December 19, 2018 06:00 AM Proposed DWSD tax coming down pipeline could drown Detroit businesses Tom Petzold Tweet Share Share Email More Print Tom Petzold is owner of Belmont Shopping Center. The Detroit Water and Sewage Department's poorly conceived billin...

We're less than a week away from the highly anticipated haunted house - will you be attending? 🎃 🧟‍♂️

Don't have tickets? Don't worry, neither do we. We'll be watching the excitement from the sidelines, too. Nevertheless, we're still excited to see good things happening in our neighborhood and hope to see more inclusive community events from Ford in the future!

Ford to give Corktown residents 800 tickets for Halloween haunted house at train station Ford is expected to hand out 800 tickets to Corktown residents and neighborhood businesses for their Halloween haunted house event this month. 

We’re here at the Community Benefit Public Meeting #8!
Tonight we will hear the Ford Motor Co. and City of Detroit responses to the NAC Impact List.

Couldn’t make it? You can review the documents through the website :

http://www.detroitmi.gov/Government/Departments-and-Agencies/Planning-and-Development-Department/Community-Benefits-Ordinance -7

And this link to DropBox :

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/z6v5g046nx2sobv/AABHf7sB3W8wgsY5ilSwlfv7a?dl=0

Community Benefits Ordinance | Planning and Development Department | Departments and Agencies | Government| City of Detroit, MI In November 2016 Detroit voters passed Proposal B, a Community Benefits Ordinance that includes different requirements for large-scale and small scale projects.

Google ‘Lincoln Brass Detroit contamination’ and you will quickly see why we are concerned about the safety of life in our neighborhood!

Trichloroethlene (TCE) vapors are a SERIOUS concern. This chemical has been reported to cause liver and kidney damage, liver and kidney cancer and damage to the central nervous system. The Detroit News (Article dated February 7, 2018) reported TCE levels 44X above state acceptable level. Additionally, soil results were more than 8000X HIGHER (according to the Department of Environmental Quality). What happens when you disturb this building? The current plan is to allow the toxic plume to settle into our neighborhood! The toxic materials being carted away - those ill be carted right past our homes.

We need answers - what actions does Ford intend to implement to keep our neighborhood safe while demolition occurs at the Lincoln Brass site and into the future?

“ “The brass factory site is contaminated, it needs a significant amount of remediation to actually get rid of the contaminants," Dubensky said. "The only real way to do that is by taking the building out." “

(Source : https://www.freep.com/story/money/2018/06/21/ford-train-station-building-corktown-penthouses/721406002/)

Ford would demolish this vacant Detroit building The chairman of Ford Land shared many new details Thursday of the automaker's plans for its future Corktown campus.

If you should have any questions for tonight’s ongoing NAC meeting (in addition to our 839 questions) please post them here!
UPDATE: The meeting has concluded. I have attached photos of the presentation materials. We will be seeking real answers about the impact of these projects on our neighborhood.

Are you as excited as we are?! The energy here is incredible. We’ve loved meeting so many people and hearing their Corktown stories. If you see us, say hi!

It’s official - we’re getting new neighbors!

It's official: Ford will move into former train station Michigan Central Depot, long a symbol of Detroit's blight, has been sold to Ford Motor Co.

A note from the owner:
Our neighborhood has been in the news quite a bit lately. It’s interesting to me that Ford Motor Co. is in talks with the Moroun family to purchase land near us here in Corktown at the same time the City of Detroit has been pushing to illegally foreclose on our property. (Remember: the storm water drain tax bills were never sent.) It seems to us that someone stood to make a very good profit with that ‘administrative mistake’!
Please don’t forget that the storm water drain tax has been ruled illegal in Michigan courts. Visit the Detroit Alliance Against Rain Tax (DAART) page and support us, DAART, and countless other Detroit residents in our fight of the illegal tax. This issue affects more than just commercial properties! Residential property owners – your drain tax rate is scheduled to increase this calendar year.
We’re still fighting and we aren’t going anywhere, but we need everyone’s support. I’m still waiting for that meeting with Mike Duggan (13 months and counting). I want my children to meet the Mayor that is trying take our family legacy. This isn’t an easy battle, but we won’t go down without a fight – we are Detroit born and raised, after all.