Detroit Escorts: A Neighborhood That Never Gave Up
June 18, 2010 at 9:24 pm | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsMy wife and I tend a plot in a Detroit community garden in an area of the city called Midtown. Last year when we first started this venture we lived in Midtown—now we are just a 15 minute walk away in Woodbridge. Midtown these days seems like ground zero for development in the city. Several restaurants, bars and retail shops have opened here in recent years. Twenty years ago, however, it was a different story. Midtown was then referred to as the “Cass Corridor,” Cass being a main thoroughfare through the area. The Corridor was a den for crack cocaine junkies and prostitutes, and it certainly was a contributor to the negative image Detroit has carried for decades. Midtown’s transition since the late 80s has been remarkable, thanks in large part to Wayne State University and a host of creative entrepreneurs.
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Detroit Strip Clubs: Attack ads bring up Cox, rumored Manoogian Mansion party
June 18, 2010 at 6:50 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No Comments… What I’ve come to know and dislike about (Cox) are through this case,” Yatooma said. “What I’m doing here has nothing to do with politics.”
Garron Strohmeyer, senior investigator at LSS Consulting, confirmed his company provided the 800 number for the ads. He said LSS owner Ned Timmons made the arrangements, and Strohmeyer did not know with whom those arrangements were made. Timmons was in the Cayman Islands today and not available for comment.
Cox investigated the rumored stripper party in 2003, including personally interviewing then-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, and declared the party thought to be held at the mayoral residence “an urban legend.” He has given sworn testimony in a federal lawsuit brought by the family of Greene, an exotic dancer who has been rumored to have danced at the party.
Detroit Escorts: Tea Party brews in western Oakland County
June 18, 2010 at 1:25 pm | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsFeatured at the meeting was Jennifer Helmer, deputy chair of the Michigan Republican Party, and tea party supporter Jim Keena, author of “Insurrection Resurrection” and the soon-to-be released “We’ve Been Had: How Obama Conned Middle Class America.”
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Taking a chapter from his second book, Keena shared a PowerPoint presentation on the Association for Community Organizations and Reform Now — commonly known as ACORN — which has made headlines during the past year due to alleged voter fraud and released video footage of ACORN workers giving advice on setting up a prostitution operation. Keena outlined the history and efforts of the 40-year-old group, which he says are based on principles of socialism, and discussed ACORN’s association with President Barack Obama up to and including involvement in the 2008 election.
Detroit Escorts: In the Zone?
June 18, 2010 at 1:25 pm | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsFriday, June 18, 2010
In the Zone?
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About 50 people turned up for last night’s public meeting at Peabody Elementary on the proposed Midtown zoning overlay.
After the proposed Overton Square grocery store development fell through earlier this year, the Memphis Regional Design Center got together with the Midtown Development Corporation, the Cooper-Young Development Corporation, and the Cooper-Young Business Association to draft a plan that would dictate development standards for renovations and new construction.
“The community says, ‘this is what we want our neighborhood to look like,’” said Memphis city councilman Shea Flinn, who was instrumental in beginning the overlay process. “We’re not going to prostitute ourselves for any developer who comes along.”
In the overlay area, which is in a sort of upside down L/arrow shape because of the historic neighborhoods already designated in Midtown, current commercial zoning would change to mixed-use commercial and there would be a review process for all commercial development.
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Detroit Strip Clubs: Residents of Midtown Memphis show up in force to back new planning district
June 18, 2010 at 1:01 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsThe core changes are meant to make commercial districts easier and more appealing to walk and bike by placing buildings instead of their parking lots close to the street, by making the front of them “transparent” with windows and doors, and by putting the parking behind or beside the buildings.
Another big push of the changes is to make Midtown denser with people. The new rules would make legal what’s now often illegal: mixed use commercial developments in which residences and offices can be on floors above ground-floor retail.
More densely populated neighborhoods that offer a variety of retail and services not only make cars less important, they are often more visually appealing places, urban planners say.
The new plan also would eliminate industrial zoning — which permits strip clubs — that now exists in some spots of Midtown, including near Central and Cooper.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Ex-Arlington Heights man gets 9 years in pension fraud
June 18, 2010 at 1:25 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsJohn Orecchio was sentenced in a plea agreement with federal prosecutors for fraud and theft after admitting to stealing the money from an investment company for union pensions he helped start called AA Capital Partners Inc. in Chicago.
When U.S. District Court Judge Harry Leinenweber asked what Orecchio could have done with all that money, Assistant State’s Attorney Brian Hayes replied, “It was spent in a lavish fashion.”
Orecchio said he blew it on things like $300,000 Super Bowl skybox parties and taking groups of people on trips to Las Vegas. Prosecutors also alleged he used it to buy more than $1 million in jewelry; luxury cars; a house in Florida, a horse farm in Michigan, and the Crazy Horse strip club in Detroit; and millions of dollars of travel, entertainment and gambling.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Kilpatrick donor’s sentence: 9 years, $26M in restitution
June 18, 2010 at 1:25 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsA couple of hours after Orecchio gave the check to Greektown businessman Jim Papas, who was hosting a fundraiser for Kilpatrick’s nonprofit, Orecchio was escorted to a room where he met with Kilpatrick and former city treasurer Jeff Beasley, according to FBI interview reports.
When the matter went before the pension board, Kilpatrick “came during the late debate and pressed the (pension) board to approve AA Capital, which they did,” Orecchio told the FBI.
Though the investment was approved, it ultimately did not go through.
Kilpatrick and his father, business consultant Bernard N. Kilpatrick, remain under FBI and grand jury investigation in Detroit.
Illinois Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Hayes said Orecchio was told to report to prison Sept. 14.
“He’s a guy who was expected to safeguard and invest these funds wisely and instead he did quite the opposite,” Hayes said. “It was a shocking display of greed.”
A Detroit strip club called the Crazy Horse was among the places Orecchio invested money.
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