Yesterday, someone on Twitter called me out for being silent on the subject of International Village, the $350+ million dollar retail and housing development being proposed for Ypsilanti’s 36-acre Water Street property. According to this person, who was posting under a pseudonym, my silence on the matter was “deafening.” It’s something I’ve heard several times […]
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My thoughts on International Village
Posted in Ann Arbor, Architecture, Corporate Crime, Economics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged affordable housing, Amanda Edmonds, Beijing, Brian Robb, brownfield, Brownfield Redevelopment Tax Credits, China, Chinese investment, condominiums, corruption, County Farm Park, Dan Vogt, Eastside Recreation Center, EB-5, economic development, economic segregation, gentrification, International Village, luxury housing, money laundering, native plants, public health air quality, real estate, remediation, respirators, seed bombing, SHIFT, silence, student housing, tax credits, Troy, Veridian, Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation, Water Street, Water Street Commons, Water Street debt reduction millage, Water Street Sculpture Park, xenophobia, Ypsilanti City Council, Ypsilanti real estate 62 Comments
How you can stop Nestlé from taking our water
At about this time last year, we had a conversation here about Nestlé’s aggressive push to extract, bottle and sell Michigan’s fresh water. Well, as you may have heard, the Swiss company now has plans to nearly double the amount of groundwater they’re taking to 210 million gallons a year, and, as you might expect, […]
Posted in Environment, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged anti-environment, Big Rapids, bottled water, Carrie Monosmith, drinking water, environmental protection, EPA, Evart, ground water, Ice Mountain, injection wells, Lara Zielin, MEDQ, Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, natural resources, Nestle, Nestle Waters North America, Peggy Case, potash, Safe Drinking Water Act, SALT, water 16 Comments
The Danger (re)Zone… the unsellable houses of Bell Street
Every once in a while someone I don’t know hands me something and asks me to publish it on this site. Until today, however, I don’t think that I’ve actually ever done it. I’ve never taken something that I’ve found scrawled on a piece of paper and stuck in my mailbox, and posted it. An […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Bell Street, Bonnie Wessler, contamination, environmental racism, Erin Snyder, fair housing, Habitat for Humanity, Huron Street, landfills, PMD, poverty, Production Manufacturing Distribution, property values, soil contamination, Spring Street, toxic environment, Ypsilanti Housing Commission, Ypsilanti Planning Commission, Ypsilanti real estate, zoning, Zoning Board of Appeals 45 Comments