Love the fabulous ruins of Detroit website. Must have been a beautiful city in its heyday.
Posted at 2007-07-13 08:21:35 [PermaLink]The pictures of Tiger Stadium are enough to make a grown man weep. I like the new ball park but there was nothing better than sitting in Tiger Stadium in the upper deck's orange box seats and watching a game. And yet it still sits there awaiting its fate, just like the old Maple Leaf Gardens.
Posted at 2007-07-13 08:28:51 [PermaLink]"Pat Hollins, an activist with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now..."
I loved that bit -- her "activists" are chasing major retailers out of Chicago while she's wondering why there's no place to buy lettuce in Detroit!
I love that "Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now".
Sounds like something Fenris might have started .....
"While crime is a concern, Matt Allen, press secretary for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, said the issue should not be used as an excuse by the big chains to avoid Detroit."
I wonder if Matt Allen lives in Detroit?
That's not 'so' unrelatable as to being in the core city of Greater Toronto. Multibranded Supermarket Chains around here are often being downscaled while the growing suburban outer fringes of the GTA abound with large full service A&Ps, Longos, Dominions, and others. Other types of food stores such as Tim Hortons, Mr. Submarine, Beckers, and/or Mac's Milk can also be difficult to spot between the d/t business district and the 416-Metro perimeter.
Posted at 2007-07-13 11:54:00 [PermaLink]CQ:
While there aren't many large supermarkets in central Toronto, likely due to real estate prices I expect, Loblaws and Dominion have recently built large modern facilities in the downtown core to service the new condo market. The City of Toronto has also thwarted proposals by big box chains to locate at the perimeter of the downtown core (see Walmart, Home Depot).
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Toronto's Mayor Moron will certainly try to follow Detroit's lead in driving out businesses, that's why he was desperate for more taxation power, but he will have to attack Condo owners even more forcefully if he wants to be successful.
The fact that so many people have an ownership stake in downtown Toronto will thwart Mayor Moron's plans, if it were just a handful of apartment building owners he could get away with his socialist schemes.
philanthropist:
I don't refer to Miller as "Mayor Moron". I prefer the term Mayor Tool - as in Revenue Tool. Miller resolutely refuses to use the term "tax increase" when mentioning his proposals. No sir, it's revenue tools all the way. Henceforth, I now call him Mayor Tool. One positive benefit though; even my wife is now beginning to agree with me that it's time to move out of this crapola city. For that change of heart, I have Miller and his arse lickers on city council to thank.
CQ: you're just vastly, vastly wrong about TO, though the Milleristas are doing their damnedest to chase out business and people with jobs.
A Longo's opened in the basement of one of the towers downtown, another is going in the condos at the ACC. There are very large Loblaws at Queen's Quay and Jarvis, St Clair & Bathurst, a RCS at Don Mills & Eg, and 9 other decent sized ones in Toronto south of the 401. Not to mention the recent Whole Foods and Pusteris in Yorkville, the new Dominions in condo districts, and all of the specialty stores. Toronto has small stores that are expensive, but that's because they sell organic beef, wild Irish salmon, artisanal breads and pastries from 5 different bakeries...
Then there's the small matter of the ongoing renovation of MAPLE LEAF GARDENS into a HUGE Real Canadian Superstore.
Your comments seem to betray a lack of awareness of Toronto's core. The city has huge problems, mainly thanks to horrid council and the Trotskyite residents associations, but lets stick to the facts, unlike the Left.