Tag Archives: Stewart Beal

Growing Hope responds to CityFARM with the announcement of a similar service

By Mark | February 28, 2012

Amanda Edmonds, the executive director of the local urban farming non-profit Growing Hope just sent in the following letter in response to my recent post about real estate developer Stewart Beal’s newly launched, somewhat competitive, largely for-profit entity, CityFARM. Many, many community members and partners have come to me this past week with concerns about […]

Posted in entrepreneurism, Food, Local Business, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Amanda Edmonds, CityFARM, Food Gatherers, food security, Ginny Golembewski, Growing Hope, Growing Hope Center, healthy food access, Lauren Maloney, Lisa Bashert, local food, local food production, local non-profits, Michigan Works, new models for non-profits, Project Grow, raised bed gardening, social enterprise, urban farming, vegetables | 17 Comments

Introducing Stewart Beal ‘s newest venture… CityFARM

By Mark | February 25, 2012

I’ve been puzzling over an email that I received from local real estate developer Stewart Beal a few days ago, announcing a new “business concept” of his, called CITYfarm. “CityFARM,” said Beal in his letter, “is a company with a social mission (kind of like a hybrid of a for profit company and a not […]

Posted in Agriculture, entrepreneurism, Food, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Adams Street, Adams Street Farm, Amanda Edmonds, CityFARM, farm jobs, farming, Food Gatherers, food security, GMO, Growing Hope, heirloom seeds, Kickstarter, Lauren Maloney, local non-profits, new models for non-profits, non-profits, organic farming, pesticide, urban farming | 89 Comments

Great flaming mascots…. Is that Jambo Man being immolated?

By Mark | September 1, 2011

At the risk of rekindling the great Ypsilanti Hostage Crisis hysteria of 2010, can someone explain this footage that was just sent to me? It appears to show the beloved local mascot of the Michigan Roots Jamboree being cooked alive. As the footage is undated, I’m not sure if it was shot recently. And I’m […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Ypsilanti | Also tagged abduction, Diazotrophical Meowkestra, Dreamland, Dreamland Tonight, immolation, Jambo, Jambo Man, kidnapping, Michigan Roots Jamboree, panic rooms, puppet Mark, The Diazotrophical Liberation Armada, Thompson Block, Toblerone Bananas | 25 Comments

Stewart Beal on his court case against Ypsilanti City Council

By Mark | April 28, 2011

A few days ago, in a post about the the ongoing cluster-fuck that is Ypsilanti’s Thompson Block, I mentioned that Stewart Beal, who owns the increasingly-precarious burned-out shell of a building, was suing the City over the revocation of an Obsolete Property Reduction Act (OPRA) abatement that had been awarded on another one of his […]

Posted in Politics, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 208 West Michigan Avenue, Go Downtown, Michigan Tax Commission, Obsolete Property Reduction Act, OPRA, real estate, taxes, the Kresge building, Thompson Block, Ypsilanti City Council | 62 Comments

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 […]