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My thoughts on International Village

By Mark | September 20, 2017

Yesterday, someone on Twitter called me out for being silent on the subject of International Village, the $350+ million dollar retail and housing development being proposed for Ypsilanti’s 36-acre Water Street property. According to this person, who was posting under a pseudonym, my silence on the matter was “deafening.” It’s something I’ve heard several times […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Architecture, Corporate Crime, Economics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged affordable housing, Amanda Edmonds, Beijing, Brian Robb, brownfield, Brownfield Redevelopment Tax Credits, China, Chinese investment, condominiums, corruption, County Farm Park, Dan Vogt, Eastside Recreation Center, EB-5, economic development, economic segregation, environmental injustice, gentrification, International Village, luxury housing, money laundering, native plants, public health air quality, real estate, remediation, respirators, seed bombing, SHIFT, silence, tax credits, Troy, Veridian, Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation, Water Street, Water Street Commons, Water Street debt reduction millage, Water Street Sculpture Park, xenophobia, Ypsilanti City Council, Ypsilanti real estate | 62 Comments

Showdown on Water Street

By Mark | June 28, 2009

Remember how, a little while ago, I mentioned that I’d heard that Burger King was getting ready to make a bid on one of the Water Street parcels? Well, it sounds as though the subject is going to come up in the near future at a City Council meeting. I just received the following from […]

Posted in Economics, entrepreneurism, Mark's Life, Observations, Politics, Rants, Retail, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Advance Ypsilanti Political Action Committee, Brian Robb, Burger King, diabetes, Michael Bodary, Michigan film incentives, Pete Murdock, predatory businesses, Water Street, Ypsilanti City Council | 44 Comments

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