Why don't fellow members of the Detroit City Council or friends of Monica Conyers and JoAnn Watson tell them to 'stifle it' or just plain 'shut up'.
Their comments are further damaging the image of Detroit, the Council and themselves providing further reasons to look beyond Detroit to the suburbs for leadership and intelligent city government.
Monica in a Detroit News article again tries to comment on the Cobo Hall deal and justinvites ridicule and shows her ignorance. JoAnn Watson blames the media for her ignorance and serious lack of common sense and discretion.
Detroiters will benefit from the Cobo Hall deal, as it stands - now, and even if tweaked by Mayor Bing - they will get to keep their jobs at restaurants, bars, casinos and other businesses that cater to Cobo conventioneers and visitors. Detroit will get to keep or increase the tax revenue that Cobo generates, if it remains viable and improved.
Detroit will enhance its tarnished image and reputation if a renovated and improved Cobo Hall attracts more conventions and visitors and positive comments spread, throughout the country.
Requesting set asides and special job quotas only makes Detroit look desperate and needy. A city that has to have special consideration because it has poor schools, and an uneducated work force. Rather than residents who are educated and ready to compete for any job that Cobo can create or needs. Black residents should be ashamed that Conyers and other council members thinks so little of them and their abilities, while professing to be their champions.
A succession of Detroit Mayors and Council members have allowed Cobo Hall to fall into severe disrepair - a city building engineer told me - it should closed and condemned. They have failed year after year to make necessary repairs and improvements needed to make Cobo a viable convention center. They have failed to control union contracts and costs associated with attracting and keeping convention business. How many businesses and companies have bit their tongues and used Cobo for a convention - because of loyalty to Detroit and a willingness to help it survive.
Cobo Hall is a disgrace - a negative factor in moving Detroit forward, take a walking tour for yourself, look at the ceilings (protect your eyes during rain storms), go downstairs into the basement, look at the loading docks - and you will see that any attempt to renovate Cobo would be a chore a major undertaking - and a blessing to the City of Detroit.
Detroit can only benefit...and Detroit residents need leadership to embrace the opportunity to make Cobo Hall - a great convention center.
And JoAnn Watson - OMG, blasphemy - using a prayer session in front of her home - to invoke God - to try and fool Detroit residents into believing that God is on her side - despite her totally unbelievable story about her home assessment and failure to pay her fair share of property taxes. A council woman that is that ignorant and deceitful must resign - but won't - so Detroit residents must rise up and tell her too. Watson tries to blame the media for her serious lack of common sense and discretion - fellow council member should tell to pay up and 'shut up'.
Showing posts with label COBO CENTER. Show all posts
Showing posts with label COBO CENTER. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Sunday, March 8, 2009
AUTORAMA, AS DETROIT CITY COUNCIL FIDDLES, NOVI OR PONTIAC SHOULD BUILD NEW CONVENTION CENTER.
DETROIT --
The fate of Detroit's Cobo Center remains in limbo as city council politics debate what to do with the crumbling structure.
But classic car owners and visitors to Autorama this weekend voiced their lack in patience as rain overwhelmed the tarps already hanging from Cobo's ceiling to collect water from melting snow -- creating dripping.
Leaky Cobo Dampens Autorama
On Saturday, pricey classic cars were on display at Cobo for the show. Hot rod owners who obsess over the slightest detail of their cars were irate.
"I'm cleaning, this beautiful '59 Galaxy 500, that took us 20 years to build, because Cobo is leaky nasty stuff from the ceiling. I mean this is salt water, it's rust, it's disgusting," said Roy Oberg.
"You know, I have a $50,000 car here. And this is what I come to get," added Tony Delmora.
WWJ RADIO (AM950) Beth Fisher
David7750 comments:
Detroit City Council should be required and must hold all of their future Coucil meetings at Cobo Hall, under tarps collecting rain water and corrosive liquids leaking thru the ceiling.
The Council must walk thru the crumbling loading docks, down to the deporable disgusting basement, walk up (because the escalators aren't always working) to Cobo Halls. The must sit and ponder - What should we do? What should we do?
Autorama, a premier Cobo event, visitors - and exhibitors saw the tarps, dodged the rain drops and wiped rain and corrosive liquids off their beloved customized, collectible and expensive vehicles - probably wondering - why are we here? They may not return.
WWJ radio (am950) reported on the tarps, rain drops and the escalators. What kind of image does that give Detroit?
Roger Weber of WDIV (Chl 4) has done a story on the crumbling loading docks, the downstairs area and the leaking ceilings, in a very visible horrorfying story of neglect and decay.
The City Council may win their battle with the Mayor, in court, but their is no real assurances that the regional plan for Cobo will be renogiatied - so what will the Council - win - a deplorable 'a jewel of the city', a convention facility that they can't afford to repair or afford to subsidize. A facility that more and more conventions will ignore, and reject.
If the City Council wins - the Detroit Metropolitan Area LOSES.
The Rock Financial Center (Novi) should expand, and then use buses to transport exhibitors and visitors to its modern facility, as buses were used to transport people to Detroit from the surrounding areas.
Pontiac, the Big 4 and the Governor, should consider using the Silverdome as a convention anchor for a convention, retail and hotel hub. Oakland County is the economic center of region. A more centered area, safer area with less baggage than Detroit. Even in this hard economic times it would make sense to build a new convention center in this area - leaving Cobo to attract smaller boutique conventions - after it is rehabed and refurbished - $288 million isn't enough to expand.
Novi or Pontiac - maybe regional cooperation can decide what's the best location for a new convention area. Now is the time to decide.
ps. mayber Windsor, Canada should be exploring expanding the convention facilities it has...its just a short bus ride across the border. Maybe conventioneers will have a better time South of the Border - Canadian style.
The fate of Detroit's Cobo Center remains in limbo as city council politics debate what to do with the crumbling structure.
But classic car owners and visitors to Autorama this weekend voiced their lack in patience as rain overwhelmed the tarps already hanging from Cobo's ceiling to collect water from melting snow -- creating dripping.
Leaky Cobo Dampens Autorama
On Saturday, pricey classic cars were on display at Cobo for the show. Hot rod owners who obsess over the slightest detail of their cars were irate.
"I'm cleaning, this beautiful '59 Galaxy 500, that took us 20 years to build, because Cobo is leaky nasty stuff from the ceiling. I mean this is salt water, it's rust, it's disgusting," said Roy Oberg.
"You know, I have a $50,000 car here. And this is what I come to get," added Tony Delmora.
WWJ RADIO (AM950) Beth Fisher
David7750 comments:
Detroit City Council should be required and must hold all of their future Coucil meetings at Cobo Hall, under tarps collecting rain water and corrosive liquids leaking thru the ceiling.
The Council must walk thru the crumbling loading docks, down to the deporable disgusting basement, walk up (because the escalators aren't always working) to Cobo Halls. The must sit and ponder - What should we do? What should we do?
Autorama, a premier Cobo event, visitors - and exhibitors saw the tarps, dodged the rain drops and wiped rain and corrosive liquids off their beloved customized, collectible and expensive vehicles - probably wondering - why are we here? They may not return.
WWJ radio (am950) reported on the tarps, rain drops and the escalators. What kind of image does that give Detroit?
Roger Weber of WDIV (Chl 4) has done a story on the crumbling loading docks, the downstairs area and the leaking ceilings, in a very visible horrorfying story of neglect and decay.
The City Council may win their battle with the Mayor, in court, but their is no real assurances that the regional plan for Cobo will be renogiatied - so what will the Council - win - a deplorable 'a jewel of the city', a convention facility that they can't afford to repair or afford to subsidize. A facility that more and more conventions will ignore, and reject.
If the City Council wins - the Detroit Metropolitan Area LOSES.
The Rock Financial Center (Novi) should expand, and then use buses to transport exhibitors and visitors to its modern facility, as buses were used to transport people to Detroit from the surrounding areas.
Pontiac, the Big 4 and the Governor, should consider using the Silverdome as a convention anchor for a convention, retail and hotel hub. Oakland County is the economic center of region. A more centered area, safer area with less baggage than Detroit. Even in this hard economic times it would make sense to build a new convention center in this area - leaving Cobo to attract smaller boutique conventions - after it is rehabed and refurbished - $288 million isn't enough to expand.
Novi or Pontiac - maybe regional cooperation can decide what's the best location for a new convention area. Now is the time to decide.
ps. mayber Windsor, Canada should be exploring expanding the convention facilities it has...its just a short bus ride across the border. Maybe conventioneers will have a better time South of the Border - Canadian style.
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