Tonights DDA meeting has been shortened, 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm, to fit in a special presentation.

Your invited to attend this special presentation tonight, Thursday April 7th, 2005, starting at 5:30 PM. Lincoln Park is currently participating with the cities of Ecorse, River Rouge and Southwest Detroit in a planning effort to revitalize the Fort Street and Visger Road Corridor.

A 45 minute presentation will be given explaining what Lincoln Park and the other communities are doing. After that 45 minutes wll be spent to get everyone's opinion on what is being done and what should be done in the future. Our input is vital to the success of these planning efforts!

Refreshments will be served too! All groups such as Mayor & Council, DDA, EDC, Planning Commission, ZBA, Building Board of Appeals, Community Improvement Commission, Parks & Rec Commission, Senior Commission, Brownfield Development Authority, Public Safety Commission, Housing Commission, Cable Commission, Library Commission, Historical Commission, City Compensation Commission, Board of Review and Public School Board have been invited to this special presentation!

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I think they were doing a head count for this. I saw the invitation that was sent out to the commissions, and it asked that if you planned on coming to give the Community Improvement commission a call so they could have enough refreshments...

If you're not on a commission or you don't call ahead, then you should probably bring your own drink or a snack if you feel hungry.

Just a suggestion.

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"With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
If there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself

Where is my mind"

-pixies

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I suggest our commissioners stick to Fort Street and forget about Visger. You couldn't pay me enough to drive down Visger. You couldn't have paid me enough to drive down Visger 40 years ago let alone nowadays.

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Collect the Back Tax, put Ms Lulko on the job.
Councilman Mario DiSanto. In your heart, you know he's right.

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I talked to Val Wynns and we do not have to RSVP.

It is the Fort Street portion that pertains to Lincoln Park for our commissioners not the Visger portion.

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ok! Thanks for clearing that up!!

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Tonights meeting was very good! IheartLP you would of loved it. The council chambers was packed. Abe Kadushin, Ann Arbor architect, and a professor I had for a grad level community planning class at Eastern Michigan four years ago was there. Jim Moran has recruited him to work on this project. I will post more info in the next few days!!

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I figured there would be alot of people! I had other plans from long before I knew about this...(I only found out a couple days ago)

Thanks for filling us in on all of this!

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yea, the DDA has known for months that April 7th was the date. Perhaps it could of been better promoted.

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That's ok tho. I've heard some things thru the grapevine about it. Val Wyn sounds really excited! I need to write her to let her know I will help out with the art place. If they need help cleaning up, moving things, whatever they need.

This idea is right in line with Cool Cities. I know that McKenna told you we don't qualify, but I think we still do under option number 4. We missed the deadline to submit our intent for applying for the grants this year, but I expect they will do another round of cool cities for next year. This is RIGHT in line with that philosophy. Do you know if they are getting any assistance from the Feds with thier ideas? I should just call them and talk to them myself to get the skinny on thier plans.

Thanks leslie!

(Can you tell I'm excited???)

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Abe Kadushin feels we qualify for Cool Cities. However, I talked to Jim Moran about it last night. Jim says yes we qualify but it would of been an uphill battle to win the grant. Plus, the state wants the cities to match which this isn't a good time for the city to match money. Plus, he said many of our cities are not happy with Cool Cities. Two cities who were awarded dropped out - Traverse City and Grand Rapids. Best bet is to get more details from Jim.

However, Jim did say that McKenna should of never told us that we DIDN'T qualify - incorrect information.

And Jim Moran agrees with me that our DDA needs to keep the Cool Cities discussion rolling. At one meeting the topic was 'how to we get to be more artsy-fartsy?' but it was dropped after Mr. Hatley said that McKenna said that we do not qualify.

Right now they are looking for all the ideas that they can get from us! They have something like four months to put something together! Abe Kadushin is a real good person to talk to! I can email you his email address.

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