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 […]
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After five years of promises, Ypsi’s downtown rec center pronounced dead
Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Bob Tetens, Conan Smith, David Rutledge, Linda French, Parks and Recreation Master Plan, Pete Murdock, River Walk Commons, Ronnie Peterson, Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation, Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation Commission, Water Street, Water Street Flats, Yousef Rabhi 33 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 injustice, environmental racism, Erin Snyder, fair housing, Habitat for Humanity, Huron Street, landfills, PMD, poverty, Production Manufacturing Distribution, property values, Spring Street, toxic environment, Ypsilanti Housing Commission, Ypsilanti Planning Commission, Ypsilanti real estate, zoning, Zoning Board of Appeals 45 Comments
Panic on Water Street… MSHDA report raises specter of toxins that could derail development, but is it accurate?
Based on a draft Health Risk Evaluation report made public late yesterday afternoon by Ann Arbor News reporter Tom Perkins, it would appear that there’s some question as to whether or not Ypsilanti’s Water Street Redevelopment Area (WSRA) may be safe for human habitation. At least that’s the sense one might get from the article’s […]
Posted in Environment, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged affordable housing, AKT Peerless, Beth Ernat, Brian Robb, community development, contaminated soil, contamination, Daniel Lince, development, Emergency Manager, Herman Kittle Properties, HUD, looming receivorship, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, Michigan State Housing Development Authority, MSHDA, remediation, section 8, Water Street, Water Street Flats 52 Comments