Over the past several weeks, it’s come to light that Water Street, the 38-acre parcel of downtown, riverfront property that the City of Ypsilanti has been trying to develop for the past 16 years, may be significantly more toxic than we’d previously been led to believe. What follows is the first of what I’m hoping […]
Tag Archives: Brownfield plan
Why are we just now finding out the extent of the contamination on Water Street?
Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged arsenic, Baseline Environmental Assessment, Beth Ernat, Biltmore, Border to Border Trail, brownfield, chemicals, Cheryl Farmer, DDCC, development, Document of Due Care and Compliance, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Farm Bureau, lead, MEDQ, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, MSHDA, native prairie, oxic Control Substances Act of 1976, PCBs, pollution, toxic environment, VOCs, Water Street, Water Street debt reduction millage, Water Street Flats, Water Street Sculpture Park, West Forest 31 Comments
Cheating the tax man, or maybe not
Yesterday, local blogger Steve Pierce, on his YpsiNews.com site, broke the news that Ypsilanti real estate developer and landlord Stewart Beal owed the City $86,068.80 in back taxes. He later revised the number to be $84,136.96. The error, he said, was “made by the reporter,” by which I assume he means himself… Here’s a clip […]
Posted in Economics, entrepreneurism, Ypsilanti Also tagged Albuquerque, brick and mortar, Burger King, HDL, local income tax, machinery, Michigan tax code, New Mexico, Paul McCartney, property tax, Richard Murphy, servers, Steve Pierce, Stewart Beal, Tax Man, taxes, Teresa Gillotti, Thompson Block, Washtenaw County Treasurer, Water Street, Water Street Redevelopment Project, Wireless Ypsi, Ypsilanti City budget, YpsiNews.com 53 Comments