Unpaid taxes – Motor City Muckraker

Entertainment giant Mike Ilitch wants city tax dollars but his company fails to pay its own taxes

By Steve Neavling on December 13, 2012 Politics, posts, Red Wings, Sports, Tigers, Urban Renewal

Turns out, the billionaire’s company, Olympia Entertainment, owes Detroit nearly a million dollars in unpaid property taxes on downtown’s Cobo Arena and Joe Louis Arena dating back to 2009.

Detroit plans takeover of Packard Plant; defiant owner responds, “Kiss my ass”

By Steve Neavling on November 27, 2012 Abandoned Buildings, Buildings, City Government, Mayor's Office, posts, Real Estate, The Packard Plant

The city is preparing to seize the Packard Plant because of unpaid taxes that the owner refuses to pay. He maintains he owes no taxes because the city won’t provide basic services to protect his property from arsonists, vandals and thieves.