Detroit Adult Entertainment: In Detroit, the garden vs. the business
June 30, 2011 at 11:13 am | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsLast Updated: June 30. 2011 1:00AM
In Detroit, the garden vs. the business
When Xavier Sims first toiled in the Birdtown community garden on Detroit’s Cass Avenue eight years ago, it was bordered by an apartment building frequented by crack addicts and prostitutes.
Sims and his fellow gardeners built the fences and planted flowers and a vegetable garden, with tomatoes and beans and neat rows of lettuce on the vacant land. They painted a sign, naming the community garden Birdtown.
Six years ago, Liz Blondy opened Canine to Five, a dog day care just south of the garden. She spruced up a long-vacant building, and customers soon arrived, unloading their poodles and retrievers from Civics and Subarus.
Two pioneers
The gardener and the businesswoman were both pioneers, working to tame the urban wilderness and improve the neighborhood.
Detroit Adult Entertainment: Gambling against the South Loop
June 30, 2011 at 11:13 am | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsGambling against the South Loop
06/29/2011 10:00 PM
BONNIE McGRATH
So, Dearborn Park, is this what you want the world to be saying? What happens in Dearborn Park stays in Dearborn Park? If the Chicago Sun-Times gets its way, it could happen.
Soon after the Illinois legislators decided they would bestow a gambling den on the City of Chicago because were flat broke and would resort to bank robbery and prostitution if the opportunity presented itself, the Sun-Times got giddy. And so did Mayor Rahm Emanuel. And Ald. Bob Fioretti.
At first, the Sun-Times made sense. Dont build a casino in a spot where it overwhelms a positive existing urban culture, they warned in a June 6 editorial, adding that plopping a casino into Block 37, for example, could destroy the areas celebrated retail character.
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