Tag Archives: Parks and Recreation Master Plan

After five years of promises, Ypsi’s downtown rec center pronounced dead

By Mark | August 9, 2016

This past May 2nd, Bob Tetens, the director of the Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation Commission, came to Ypsilanti at the behest of Washtenaw County Commissioner Ronnie Peterson, and explained to us why it was that, after five years, he and his team still hadn’t broken ground on the downtown recreation center that we’d all […]

Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Bob Tetens, Conan Smith, David Rutledge, Linda French, Pete Murdock, River Walk Commons, Ronnie Peterson, soil contamination, Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation, Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation Commission, Water Street, Water Street Flats, Yousef Rabhi | 33 Comments

Depot Town CDC director defends stewardship of Ypsilanti parks

By Mark | July 9, 2009

A few days ago, I raised a question here about whether or not Ypsi City Council was right to have stripped stewardship of Frog Island and Riverside parks from the Depot Town CDC. As I pointed out at the time, I think there may well have been legitimate criticism of the CDC and they way […]