Grosse Pointe Park has agreed to remove a controversial farmer’s market that blocked off the border of Detroit this summer under a potentially landmark agreement between the two disparate communities.
Our request for three months of records, the city maintained, would disable emergency communications and take more than a year to fulfill.
The west-side building is owned by the city, which isn’t as quick to take action in some neighborhoods.
On Detroit’s west side, just six blocks from where the 1967 riot broke out, a battered car is wedged into the corner of a partially collapsed two-story commercial building on Linwood, buried by piles of bricks and concrete.
Detroit medics are taking too long to respond to emergencies, and people are dying.
Under Detroit’s emergency manager, the city shut off water to more than 18,000 residents for delinquent bills.
Grosse Pointe Park’s decision to block a popular road at the border of Detroit with a farmer’s market may be a costly one.
Duggan said he plans to make it easier for cash-strapped delinquent customers to pay their bills by offering assistance but hinted that he wouldn’t stop the shutoffs for everyone.
When Mayor Duggan positioned himself in front of the microphone Wednesday evening, he glanced down at a yellow legal pad with sparse handwriting.
Duggan: “I don’t know of a business executive in America who doesn’t try to recruit people they have worked with in the past and know to be honest, hardworking, and competent. That’s not cronyism – it’s sound management.”