By Mark | October 15, 2017
Now that a week has passed, I’m looking through all of the photos that were either emailed to me as part of our #DocumentYpsi2017 project, or posted to social media along with the hashtag. While I’ve yet to receive the contributions from Ozone House or Ypsi High, both of whom had multiple people taking photos, […]
Posted in History, Photographs, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Akosua Dow, Arlo, Dan Blakeney, Document Ypsi, documentation, DocumentYpsi2017, Dom's Bakery, Donald Trump, donuts, gay friendly, Linette Lao, Ozone House, rabbit, Riverside Arts Center, time capsule, Water Street, Ypsi High, Ypsi history, YpsiGLOW, Ypsilanti water tower |
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 […]
Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged arsenic, Baseline Environmental Assessment, Beth Ernat, Biltmore, Border to Border Trail, brownfield, Brownfield plan, 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, 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 |
By Mark | December 3, 2014
This past spring, I posted a note here from a guy in New York who was thinking of moving back to the area, and trying to decide between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. The ensuing conversation was awesome, but apparently we failed to convince said person that Ypsilanti was the right place for him and his […]
By Mark | October 25, 2014
Still trying to unravel the mystery of why people would choose, of their own free will, to move to Ypsilanti, I reached out to new residents Isaac and Emily Wingfield, and demanded that they submit to a formal Ypsilanti Immigration Interview. Here are the results. MARK: Isaac, I understand that you just recently took a […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Allegany County, Ansel Adam, Appalachian State, AS220, Asheville, authenticity, bike friendly, community theater, dark rooms, Emily Wingfield, football, goats, Houghton, Isaac Wingfield, John Ritzenthaler Company, Lewis Hine, livestock, New Urban Arts, New York, North Carolina, photography, pop-up farming, poverty tour, poverty. RFK, Providence, Rhode Island, RISD, Robert Kennedy, Sara Meyer, sense of place, Seth Gruenwald, Starbucks, textiles, University of Michigan Residential College, urban agriculture, urban farming, walkability, Water Street, Ypsi immigration interview |
The flowers that we planted last May are beginning to open up on the Water Street Prairie. They aren’t quite as plentiful as we’d hoped, which we attribute to the poor quality of the soil, and the continued presence of invasive species like Spotted Knapweed, but the native plants that we reintroduced to the site […]
