Wyandotte

Call me uninformed or apathetic, but I always ASSumed that the following thing would be priorities that our local elected officials would be working on for much of their tenure...

Q: What is the official plan for the Fort Street improvement project? Is this publicaly available? Where?

Q: Does Wyandotte Gov. have a developement plan for the other main commercial corridors in the city? IE Ford ave and Eureka?

Q: What are the thoughts out there? Do we need to improve those two corridors? Or are they fine the way they look now (NO!)

Eureka and Ford Ave are two main entry ways into our downtown Central business district and they should portray a sense of beauty and prosperity. Government should promote that standard by ensuring code enforcement and improving the upkeep codes.

We may all laugh or shake our heads in shame at Detroit's decay, but it is only seven miles away! Let's not get to that point!

Gateway to City

Fort Street is a mess it's loaded with too many decrepit and pooly run automotive business's looks like the gateway into Gary Indiana in some spots.

The Walgreens Strip mall project of Daly Mgt looks like it will in time be the creme la creme of the city gateway Fort Street project.

Eureka east from Fort looks like a railroad yard, in some spots, and as you get closer to 4th steet the vacancy factor of overbuilt unoccupied strip malls retail space by (Finanzo)
is an eyesore. Soon the Monroe Bank & Trust Building will enchance that section .

Ford Street east from Fort to Biddle is a mixed residential retail service business mix, with no appararant decay or vacancy noted. In an older area like this it is hard to generate new business on top of exisitng established business, but please no more bars or carryouts, or smoke shops are needed, in this isolated strip.

The shrinking downtown CBD is obvious to old timers, once Biddle Business went as far as Pennsylvania with a mix of small unique shops and eateries.

From Damons North to Oak you have a significantly reduced retail mix, and a state of staleness, from the vacancy of the Cooler, long over due for demolition, and the vacant retail on or near Biddle center of town.

We have lost Sears,Federals, Nisners,
McCloughlin,Gails office Supply,vacant Rite Aid Bldg, soon to be vacant Sammy V's and most likely to remain vacant and foreclosed on, Sycamore Plaza..still using green floresent signs to attract lookers to the property, very bad marketing has killed this project, and Johno still keeps going along !...for awhile anyway.

The city has contributed to these problems with part time people doing a full time job.

What we do not need is the abilty of a lazy soon to retire, city employee to shift into a council seat for a cozy nest following a non distinguished career in another dept.

With zero outside experience, it would only contribnute to an already problematic situation. Give us any BerearMom for a Council Run in his place.

Recruit some local leadership, get a salary scale commensurate , and change to a City Mgr form of Government.

Or watch a few successes, negated by the overall shrinkage of the CBD and the surrouinding town as the seven miles to Detroit looms closer and closer , Ecorse, Del Ray and Wyandotte once proud cities a ghost of what promised to be, but was never delivered.

A ghost of what it was, and what never will it be.

Another thing

And why is there not one major grocery store in the City? No Krogers, Farmer Jacks, etc.

So what keeps you here?

You're complaining again, so why do you stay?