FRIENDS OF ROUGE PARK..
Developing a plan for Rouge Park, the largest park in Detroit.
The one thing I think all friends of Rouge Park can agreen on - is the need to protect residents from potential robbers and rapist - who may use the - open to tresspass, stripped, dangerous and abandoned bathrooms on West Outer Dr at Tireman and another at Dover - they have long been a crime waiting to happen and the City Council has failed to take action to demolsh them, make this a priority in your vision of Rouge Park.
ps. Mike Ilitch, of the Tigers and Red Wings' owes the City up to $12 million dollars for agreements he failed to keep concerning historic Detroit Tiger Stadium. He should spend a million dollars or more - creating new baseball fields throughout Rouge Park. Hopefully, they can reach a sort of - out of court settlement, before Ilitch is indicted. Councilman Ken Cockrel should take the lead, since he told me 'Yes David, your guy (Peter Riley) was right, he (Ilitch) owes the City, the money, and I will do everything I can to get the money back.'
pss. Dave Bing, a Detroit Piston - Hall of Fame Player, should ask Tom Gores to build new basketball courts throughout Rouge Park - he will not move the Pistons to Detroit! So maybe he will make a contribution to the residents who are basketball fanatics.
So here are three suggestions to make Rouge Park better - along with the basics of just cutting the grass.
Showing posts with label MIKE ILITCH. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MIKE ILITCH. Show all posts
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
MIKE 'LITTLE CAESARS' ILITCH - PISTONS, RED WINGS, TIGERS - NOT GAMBLING TOO
It is time someone stands up to Mike and Marian Ilitch - time to stop them from buying the Detroit Pistons and to investigate their mixing of gambling money and pro sports money.
Ilitch took up to $12.million dollars from Detroit and its taxpayers to maintain and secure Detroit Tiger Stadium. Ilitch failed to live up to the agreements to maintain and secure Tiger Stadium, and by doing so it led to the 'demolition by neglect' of historic Detroit Tiger Stadium and its ultimate demolition, which could have been an entertaiment venue that brought in millions of dollars to the City.
Marian Ilitch owns a gambling casino - Motor City Casino - and is negotiating to own more in Ohio and Indiana...professional sports do not mix well with gambling and owners with gambling interests - should not be allowed to own a professional or semi-pro sports team.
Didn't Detroit Red Wings favorite, Darren McCartey list a $50,000 debt to Motor City Casino in his bankruptcy filing? Didn't pro basketball players, Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan admit a gambling problem???
Hopefully the National Basketball Association will do what Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League failed to do - stand up to Mike and Marian Ilitch and say - its either pro sports team ownership or gambling casinos - not both.
For all those who are devotees, idolators, who can't admit that the Ilitchs' have done wrong - or have done nothing that haven't netted them more than they invested - and this includes sports writers and sports columnists - remember A(Adolph) Alfred Taubman, a billionaire - went to jail for cheating the public - rich people, not poor Detroiters though.
So be among those who want the Ilitchs' held accountable - its either pro sports or gambling - not now not ever both.
Ilitch took up to $12.million dollars from Detroit and its taxpayers to maintain and secure Detroit Tiger Stadium. Ilitch failed to live up to the agreements to maintain and secure Tiger Stadium, and by doing so it led to the 'demolition by neglect' of historic Detroit Tiger Stadium and its ultimate demolition, which could have been an entertaiment venue that brought in millions of dollars to the City.
Marian Ilitch owns a gambling casino - Motor City Casino - and is negotiating to own more in Ohio and Indiana...professional sports do not mix well with gambling and owners with gambling interests - should not be allowed to own a professional or semi-pro sports team.
Didn't Detroit Red Wings favorite, Darren McCartey list a $50,000 debt to Motor City Casino in his bankruptcy filing? Didn't pro basketball players, Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan admit a gambling problem???
Hopefully the National Basketball Association will do what Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League failed to do - stand up to Mike and Marian Ilitch and say - its either pro sports team ownership or gambling casinos - not both.
For all those who are devotees, idolators, who can't admit that the Ilitchs' have done wrong - or have done nothing that haven't netted them more than they invested - and this includes sports writers and sports columnists - remember A(Adolph) Alfred Taubman, a billionaire - went to jail for cheating the public - rich people, not poor Detroiters though.
So be among those who want the Ilitchs' held accountable - its either pro sports or gambling - not now not ever both.
Monday, July 26, 2010
HISTORIC DETROIT TIGER STADIUM - LIVES ON..
http://detnews.com/article/20100724/OPINION03/7240328/Baseball-alive-at-old-Tiger-Stadium-site - cut and paste to see the article..
Terry Foster, of the Detroit News, wrote a great story about 'Baseball alive at old Tiger Stadium, July 24. Read it and make comments - here is my comment. Please comment.
Mon. 07/26/10 06:26 PM
HISTORIC DETROIT TIGER STADIUM LIVES ON...
DETROIT TIGER STADIUM WILL LIVE IN THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO VISITED THE STADIUM, SO LONG AS THEY TAKE THE TIME TO REMEMBER IT.
MIKE ILITCH OWES THE CITY OF DETROIT UP TO $12. MILLION DOLLARS FOR FAILURE TO FULFILL THE AGREEMENTS TO MAINTAIN TIGER STADIUM AS IT WAS IN 1999 AND TO SECURE IT FROM VANDALS AND THIEVES. ILITCH'S FAILURE TO LIVE UP TO THE AGREEMENTS MAYBE UNDER INVESTIGATION BY THE FBI - HE TOOK CITY FUNDS / TAX PAYER MONEY FOR THE AGREEMENTS.
DETROIT CITY COUNCILMAN KEN COCKREL TOLD ME 'DAVID, YOUR BOY (PETER RILEY) WAS RIGHT HE (ILITCH) OWES THE CITY THE MONEY, AND I WILL DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO GET IT BACK' - WELL COCKREL LIED TO ME -
HE HAS DONE NOTHING TO GET THE MONEY BACK.
ILITCH SHOULD HONOR TIGER STADIUM BY BUILDING A 2,500 SEAT LIGHTED STADIUM AND THREE (3) ADDITIONAL BALL FIELDS AT THE TIGER STADIUM SITE.
IF HE FAILS TOO - THE CITY SHOULD PURSUE THE FBI INVESTIGATION AND PROVIDE COMPLETE COOPERATION, AND THE CITY SHOULD DEMAND THAT THE NATIONAL BASEBALL LEAGUE AND THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE, FORCE ILITCH TO SELL THE TIGERS AND RED WINGS OR THAT MARIANNE ILITCH SELL HER CASINO ENTERPRISES.
DETROIT HAS TO STAND UP IN THESE HARD ECONOMIC TIMES AND DEMAND THAT ITS CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS BE HONORED - SOMETHING THAT HASN'T BEEN DONE IN THE PAST.
DAVID7750, DETROIT, MI
From The Detroit News: http://apps.detnews.com/apps/forums/newstalk/lettersindex.php?relatedURL=http://detnews.com/article/20100724/OPINION03/7240328/Baseball-alive-at-old-Tiger-Stadium-site#ixzz0upa3trWL - cut and paste..to see the full story
Terry Foster, of the Detroit News, wrote a great story about 'Baseball alive at old Tiger Stadium, July 24. Read it and make comments - here is my comment. Please comment.
Mon. 07/26/10 06:26 PM
HISTORIC DETROIT TIGER STADIUM LIVES ON...
DETROIT TIGER STADIUM WILL LIVE IN THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO VISITED THE STADIUM, SO LONG AS THEY TAKE THE TIME TO REMEMBER IT.
MIKE ILITCH OWES THE CITY OF DETROIT UP TO $12. MILLION DOLLARS FOR FAILURE TO FULFILL THE AGREEMENTS TO MAINTAIN TIGER STADIUM AS IT WAS IN 1999 AND TO SECURE IT FROM VANDALS AND THIEVES. ILITCH'S FAILURE TO LIVE UP TO THE AGREEMENTS MAYBE UNDER INVESTIGATION BY THE FBI - HE TOOK CITY FUNDS / TAX PAYER MONEY FOR THE AGREEMENTS.
DETROIT CITY COUNCILMAN KEN COCKREL TOLD ME 'DAVID, YOUR BOY (PETER RILEY) WAS RIGHT HE (ILITCH) OWES THE CITY THE MONEY, AND I WILL DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO GET IT BACK' - WELL COCKREL LIED TO ME -
HE HAS DONE NOTHING TO GET THE MONEY BACK.
ILITCH SHOULD HONOR TIGER STADIUM BY BUILDING A 2,500 SEAT LIGHTED STADIUM AND THREE (3) ADDITIONAL BALL FIELDS AT THE TIGER STADIUM SITE.
IF HE FAILS TOO - THE CITY SHOULD PURSUE THE FBI INVESTIGATION AND PROVIDE COMPLETE COOPERATION, AND THE CITY SHOULD DEMAND THAT THE NATIONAL BASEBALL LEAGUE AND THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE, FORCE ILITCH TO SELL THE TIGERS AND RED WINGS OR THAT MARIANNE ILITCH SELL HER CASINO ENTERPRISES.
DETROIT HAS TO STAND UP IN THESE HARD ECONOMIC TIMES AND DEMAND THAT ITS CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS BE HONORED - SOMETHING THAT HASN'T BEEN DONE IN THE PAST.
DAVID7750, DETROIT, MI
From The Detroit News: http://apps.detnews.com/apps/forums/newstalk/lettersindex.php?relatedURL=http://detnews.com/article/20100724/OPINION03/7240328/Baseball-alive-at-old-Tiger-Stadium-site#ixzz0upa3trWL - cut and paste..to see the full story
Thursday, June 5, 2008
CRIME IN DETROIT - STOLEN DETROIT TIGER ITEMS, ILITCH IS RESPONSIBLE
DETROIT TIGERS STADIUM UNIQUE AND RARE ITEMS GAME USED! - eBay (item 250255743164 end time Jun-11-08 17:49:57 PDT)
The above is a link to a current Ebay auction of stolen items from historic Detroit Tiger Stadium in 2000.
Mike Ilitch was receiving $400,000. a year to maintain (as it was in 1999) and to provide security for historic Detroit Tiger Stadium. Obviously from the auction site, and from the general look of Tiger Stadium - now - Ilitch looks like he didn't spend a dime of the nearly, $2 - $12 million dollars he got from Detroit, a financailly ailing city.
While we celebrate the Red Wings Stanley Cup victory - remember the millions of dollars he has gotten from the City - for Tiger Stadium, with no obvious accountabilty! No one is above the law - Adolph Albert Taubman the billionaire went to jail - Shouldn't Mike Ilitch??
It seems to be a felony crime that the City is allowing to go unpunished. Ken Cockrel, Jr. told me that he believes that "Ilitch owes us the money" and that " I'll do whatever necessary to get it back" that was over at least a year ago, and he still has done nothing. Councilwoman Joanne Watson has also said, that she believes Ilitch owes the City money for Tiger Stadium. Why? is the Council so slow to recover millions of dollars - especially when Detroit has a deficit?? Do they worship Ilitch or are they afraid of him?
The Packard plant is litterally failing onto the streets of Detroit, the Train Station looms as a ominus tombstone over Detroit - there are dozens of abandon buildings throughout Detroit that are a danger to the public and have better economic locations for business- but there is no rush to demolish them. Why? the rush to demolish Tiger Stadium.
Legitimate proposals by upstanding businessmen were offered to use Tiger Stadium as a money making entertainment facility since 1999, those offers were ignored, dismissed or discouraged - there was no legitimate offer that the City would accept. Detroit has lost millions and millions of dollars - $$$$$$$, Why? There needs to be a criminal investigation.
George Jackson and members of the Detroit Economic Development Corporation have lied to the Corktown residents, the Detroit City Planning Commission, the residents of Detroit and Michigan. And yet the DEGC is getting its way - with the demolition of Tiger Stadium.
Detroit recieved about $300,000 for items sold at auction from Tiger Stadium - although no public final accounting has been released. That means that possibly millions of dollars worth of items were stolen from Tiger Stadium - in the manner described in the Ebay auction - and Ilitch should be held accountable for that.
There needs to be an investigation by the Detroit City Council, the Michigan State Police and the FBI into what public corruption was involved in the 'demolition by neglect' of Tiger Stadium and Why the City has lost millions of dollars for the use of Tiger Stadium since 1999, and the theft of items from Tiger Stadium, including the Historical Marker. The investigation must include Mike Ilitch, the DEGC and the Mayor.
Contact members of the Detroit City Council: Ken Cockrel (313 224 4505), Monica Conyers (313 224 4530), Sheila Cockrel (313 224 1337), Martha Reeves (313 224 4510), Joann Watson (313 224 4536), Kwame Kenyatta (313 224 1198), Brenda Jones (313 224 1245), Barbara Rose Collins (313 224 1298), Alberta Tinsley-Talabi (313 224 1645). It is still not to late to preserve what is left of Tiger Stadium and to restore it to a viable entertainment facility - that it should have been since 1999. Call today...everyday..
Remember to voter August 5th and November 4th, 2008
The above is a link to a current Ebay auction of stolen items from historic Detroit Tiger Stadium in 2000.
Mike Ilitch was receiving $400,000. a year to maintain (as it was in 1999) and to provide security for historic Detroit Tiger Stadium. Obviously from the auction site, and from the general look of Tiger Stadium - now - Ilitch looks like he didn't spend a dime of the nearly, $2 - $12 million dollars he got from Detroit, a financailly ailing city.
While we celebrate the Red Wings Stanley Cup victory - remember the millions of dollars he has gotten from the City - for Tiger Stadium, with no obvious accountabilty! No one is above the law - Adolph Albert Taubman the billionaire went to jail - Shouldn't Mike Ilitch??
It seems to be a felony crime that the City is allowing to go unpunished. Ken Cockrel, Jr. told me that he believes that "Ilitch owes us the money" and that " I'll do whatever necessary to get it back" that was over at least a year ago, and he still has done nothing. Councilwoman Joanne Watson has also said, that she believes Ilitch owes the City money for Tiger Stadium. Why? is the Council so slow to recover millions of dollars - especially when Detroit has a deficit?? Do they worship Ilitch or are they afraid of him?
The Packard plant is litterally failing onto the streets of Detroit, the Train Station looms as a ominus tombstone over Detroit - there are dozens of abandon buildings throughout Detroit that are a danger to the public and have better economic locations for business- but there is no rush to demolish them. Why? the rush to demolish Tiger Stadium.
Legitimate proposals by upstanding businessmen were offered to use Tiger Stadium as a money making entertainment facility since 1999, those offers were ignored, dismissed or discouraged - there was no legitimate offer that the City would accept. Detroit has lost millions and millions of dollars - $$$$$$$, Why? There needs to be a criminal investigation.
George Jackson and members of the Detroit Economic Development Corporation have lied to the Corktown residents, the Detroit City Planning Commission, the residents of Detroit and Michigan. And yet the DEGC is getting its way - with the demolition of Tiger Stadium.
Detroit recieved about $300,000 for items sold at auction from Tiger Stadium - although no public final accounting has been released. That means that possibly millions of dollars worth of items were stolen from Tiger Stadium - in the manner described in the Ebay auction - and Ilitch should be held accountable for that.
There needs to be an investigation by the Detroit City Council, the Michigan State Police and the FBI into what public corruption was involved in the 'demolition by neglect' of Tiger Stadium and Why the City has lost millions of dollars for the use of Tiger Stadium since 1999, and the theft of items from Tiger Stadium, including the Historical Marker. The investigation must include Mike Ilitch, the DEGC and the Mayor.
Contact members of the Detroit City Council: Ken Cockrel (313 224 4505), Monica Conyers (313 224 4530), Sheila Cockrel (313 224 1337), Martha Reeves (313 224 4510), Joann Watson (313 224 4536), Kwame Kenyatta (313 224 1198), Brenda Jones (313 224 1245), Barbara Rose Collins (313 224 1298), Alberta Tinsley-Talabi (313 224 1645). It is still not to late to preserve what is left of Tiger Stadium and to restore it to a viable entertainment facility - that it should have been since 1999. Call today...everyday..
Remember to voter August 5th and November 4th, 2008
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