Detroit Economic Growth Corporation executives LIED...
DEGC executives lied to the City of Detoit Planning Commission, in regards to, their Tiger Stadium demolition request, and the DPC knew it, and denied their request.
DEGC executive lied to the Corktown Citizens Council.
NO one has held the DEGC accountable.
Many people suspect that the DEGC was doing the bidding of Mike Ilitch, part of a
group of 'wealthy private investors'. There were many proposals to preserve historic
Detroit Tiger Stadium as an entertainment venue, a tourist attraction and a revenue generator for Detroit. George Jackson and the DEGC did not make a decision 'in the best interests of Detroit' nor did they - 'help walk the deals through the complex process of buying city land, crafting creative financing with a web of tax credits and other incentives and otherwise nurturing deals from concept to ribbon cutting'. He, George Jackson (DEGC) made the decision 'to nix the proposals he (Jackson) finds inconsistent with his mission'.
A Detroit Free Press article,by John Gallagher (9/25/11) mentions several redevelopment projects that the DEGC was involved in, since George Jackson's appointment by disgraced convicted felon former X-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, but does not list, if there was any involvement by indicted Kilpatrick contractor Bobby Ferguson, who also is under indictment, as part of the Kilpatrick Mafia. Ferguson it seems was involved in all development and construction projects, under the Kilpatrick regime - Was the DEGC involved with him???
Jackson is quoted by Gallagher as saying "My job is to make a decision that's in the best interests of Detroit". He is now Mayor Bing's point man on the proposed M-1 Light Rail Plan, which is backed by a "group of wealthy private investors helping bankroll the light rail line".
But if Jackson and the DEGC really did 'what was in the best interests of Detroit', he would put the M1 plan on the back burner - and insist that SMART and DDOT merge into one (1) cohesive bus system that truly serves the residents of Detroit and the suburbs. Detroit residents now stand in the cold, wind, rain, snow and hot sun, for the most part without simple bus shelters, for a bus that is sometimes to most times running slow. People have lost their jobs, waiting for a DDOT bus - that is WRONG. Detroit residents need and deserve a modern efficient bus system. They are already subsidizing the out moded, tax subsidized, People Mover and an inefficient bus system - the M1 should be shelved for now, simply because Detroit can't afford it - but if wealthy private businessmen want to take complete control and financial responsibilites - GO FOR IT...
And why is the M1 running up Woodward - when a more productive and prosperous route would be between Detroit and Ann Arbor (home to the University of Michigan, properous Google offices, research companies, and other 21st Century companies). The answer maybe that wealthy businessmen want subsidizes, federal and state grants, to develop properties, they own and will make them, huge profits at public expense.
Apparently George Jackson, a Southfield city resident, after nine (9) years at the DEGC, not to mention 30 years before that - Jackson can't find a home in a wealty Detroit subdivision or an apartment or condo in Detroit, to his liking???? OMG and he professes to want to make decisions in the "best interests of Detroit"
Hopefully the FBI is investigating the DEGC. Detroit deserves better.
What do you think??? No is the time to speak up.
Read - John Gallegher's Cover Story: Jackson known for down-to-earth attitude, Sunday, September 25, 2011.
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