Tag Archives: Historic Preservation tax credits

Ypsilanti City Council passes resolution opposing Snyder agenda, calling for statewide tax reform

By Mark | May 6, 2011

At Tuesday night’s meeting of the Ypsilanti City Council, the following resolution was offered by Councilmen Mike Bodary and Dan Vogt. It is, as you will realize when you read it, largely symbolic in nature, but I wholeheartedly endorse the sentiment behind it. Furthermore, I hope that it encourages other communities across Michigan to do […]

Yet another post entitled, “What’s up with the Thompson Block?”

By Mark | April 26, 2011

Since people are discussing this in the comments section following an old thread, I thought that I’d move the subject up here, to the front page… Today is April 26th, which means, according to the interpretations of some, that Stewart Beal has missed the deadline that he’d negotiated with City Council, by which time he […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Civil War barrack, Cross Street, Depot Town, development, Ed Koryzno, Go Downtown, Historic Equities Fund, OPRA, River Street, Stewart Beal, the Kresge building, Thompson Block, urban development | 45 Comments

Ypsi’s Karen and Eric Maurer challenge Snyder on brownfield and historic preservation tax credits

By Mark | March 8, 2011

Local real estate developers Eric and Karen Maurer were featured in today’s Detroit Free Press, in an article about the Governor’s recent decision to eliminate tax credits like those which were utilized to restore several of the buildings along Ypsilanti’s Michigan Avenue corridor. In the following clip, you’ll not only hear the Maurers’ point of […]

Posted in Economics, Michigan, Politics, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Ann Arbor SPARK, Brownfield Redevelopment Tax Credits, Eric Maurer, Karen Maurer, Mack & Mack Building, Maurer Management, MEDC, Michigan Avenue, Mike Finney, Richard Murphy, Rick Snyder, SPARK East, Water Street | 24 Comments

What Ypsi’s leaders will be doing to respond to Snyder’s proposed budget

By Mark | March 7, 2011

Last night, I posted something here about Rick Snyder’s proposed budget, and my hope that our City’s leaders were actively working on an aggressive response, perhaps through an organization such as SEMCOG or the Michigan Municipal League. As with our earlier posts on the subject of the budget, it’s led to some good discussion. One […]

Posted in Economics, Michigan, Politics, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 2012 Michigan budget, Andy Dillon, Bill Rustem, Brownfield Redevelopment Tax Credits, budget cuts, Business Leaders for Michigan, Carol Shafto, Dearborn, Ed Koryzno, Kirk Profit, looming receivorship, Michigan Association of Counties, Michigan Municipal League, Michigan Township Association, Michigan Urban Visioning Workshop, open for business, P.A. 72, Paul Schreiber, revenue sharing, Rick Snyder, SEMCOG, Southfield, Summer Minnick, Taylor, the Emergency Financial Manager Act, This Is Revenue Stealing, Thomas Mullaney, urban core cities | 11 Comments

Who will fight for Michigan’s struggling cities, like Ypsilanti, against the Snyder budget?

By Mark | March 6, 2011

As we’ve discussed here in the past, the budget put forward by our new Governor, Rick Snyder, would appear to put a disproportionate amount of the burden on aging, urban communities, like Ypsilanti. Here are just a few of the ways that Ypsilanti will be impacted by the new budget if it is ratified. • First, […]