ilitch family – Motor City Muckraker

Gilbert buying Tigers? Charter closes during school year, Detroit towing: Your Thursday morning briefing

By Steve Neavling on September 27, 2018 Morning Briefing

Your Thursday morning briefing: Dan Gilbert said to be negotiating the purchase of the Detroit Tigers; a Detroit charter school closed less than a month into the school year; and city council admonishes police for quietly getting into the towing business.

Preservationists to fight Ilitches’ plans to demolish century-old buildings

By Steve Neavling on August 24, 2017 Abandoned Buildings, Culture, Headline, Real Estate

The billionaire Ilitch family and their companies have raked in hundreds of millions of tax dollars while demolishing dozens of buildings – some of them historic – in Detroit since the 1980s.

At least 15 buildings, houses razed near new Red Wings arena

By Steve Neavling on March 19, 2017 Abandoned Buildings, Headline, Real Estate, The Packard Plant

Since the city of Detroit announced the location of the new Red Wings arena in June 2013, at least 15 houses or buildings have been demolished within three blocks of the site.