Friday Night it's 8PM and the downtown is a ghost town, a winter chill blows hard thru the air.
A sign in window of the once vibrant and ''Wyandotte Theater'' announced the Trillium Center for Performing Arts ''Administrative Offices'' were located across the street in Gails Office Supply Bldg...so we looked there.
Gails itself looked more and more like a SW Detroit boarded up ediface's waiting to be vandalized by a homeless person looking for shelter tonight.
They Wrecked It !
Make no mistake the City of Wyandotte WRECKED the Wyandotte Theater.
The numerous code violations the required remodeling, the parking fiasco, the outside signage, all these factors contributed to the WRECKING of a community theater movie house in the CBD. Plus the folks in town...declined to partonize it, be honest, when videos came out and you could rent to own, ticket sales at WT droped off perciptiously...and then They WRECKED IT.
No where is They WRECKED It more obvious then the fiasco with Gails Office Supply Store a community fixture over 60 years in the CBD.
Wreked by the total withdrawl of community support in gaining preferred vendor status the City it self screwed and denied , Gails out of numerous opportunities for bids on the truck loads of soft goods required to clip and post all those notices on bulletin boards...They WRECKED IT!
You would think to purchasing agents at the Wyandotte Public Schools that a
$ 2.00/ per $1,000 differential on school supplies staples, files, lables, pads, sticky notes,crayons, art supplies, wouldn't matter all that much?
They WRECKED IT and rationalized Let's Buy Local, ...even if it is from the big box stores in Woodhaven/Taylor
''Political Correctness'' at alwyas getting the lowest bid for every thing, sent Gails down the drain, and don't even mention the city assessments on merchants in the CBD for those always ongoing sidewalk improvements.
Cost of Doing Business in Wyandotte is exceedingly HIGHER than Southgate,Taylor, Riverview, Allen Park, and other area communities...Why is that?
8:00PM Friday evening just about everything on Biddle in lock down, and its sad because it should not have to be that way.
If nobody comes out downtown, then no shops will remain open, let alone remain or worse yet...relocate here from SOMEWHERE ELSE ! you have to ask the hard question...why would they come?
City needs a jump start with a aggressive new business development executive charged with doing the 'ole fashioned things like networkig, and getting out there in recruiting and aassisting vibrant small business relocate.
Why haven't they done it? You have to wonder what are they waitng for?
A sign in window of the once vibrant and ''Wyandotte Theater'' announced the Trillium Center for Performing Arts ''Administrative Offices'' were located across the street in Gails Office Supply Bldg...so we looked there.
Gails itself looked more and more like a SW Detroit boarded up ediface's waiting to be vandalized by a homeless person looking for shelter tonight.
They Wrecked It !
Make no mistake the City of Wyandotte WRECKED the Wyandotte Theater.
The numerous code violations the required remodeling, the parking fiasco, the outside signage, all these factors contributed to the WRECKING of a community theater movie house in the CBD. Plus the folks in town...declined to partonize it, be honest, when videos came out and you could rent to own, ticket sales at WT droped off perciptiously...and then They WRECKED IT.
No where is They WRECKED It more obvious then the fiasco with Gails Office Supply Store a community fixture over 60 years in the CBD.
Wreked by the total withdrawl of community support in gaining preferred vendor status the City it self screwed and denied , Gails out of numerous opportunities for bids on the truck loads of soft goods required to clip and post all those notices on bulletin boards...They WRECKED IT!
You would think to purchasing agents at the Wyandotte Public Schools that a
$ 2.00/ per $1,000 differential on school supplies staples, files, lables, pads, sticky notes,crayons, art supplies, wouldn't matter all that much?
They WRECKED IT and rationalized Let's Buy Local, ...even if it is from the big box stores in Woodhaven/Taylor
''Political Correctness'' at alwyas getting the lowest bid for every thing, sent Gails down the drain, and don't even mention the city assessments on merchants in the CBD for those always ongoing sidewalk improvements.
Cost of Doing Business in Wyandotte is exceedingly HIGHER than Southgate,Taylor, Riverview, Allen Park, and other area communities...Why is that?
8:00PM Friday evening just about everything on Biddle in lock down, and its sad because it should not have to be that way.
If nobody comes out downtown, then no shops will remain open, let alone remain or worse yet...relocate here from SOMEWHERE ELSE ! you have to ask the hard question...why would they come?
City needs a jump start with a aggressive new business development executive charged with doing the 'ole fashioned things like networkig, and getting out there in recruiting and aassisting vibrant small business relocate.
Why haven't they done it? You have to wonder what are they waitng for?