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While the mayor touts its benefits as a development tool, others see it as a land grab
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While the mayor touts its benefits as a development tool, others see it as a land grab
"When you think about District Detroit and the development that they are proposing, it looks similar to Little Caesars Arena," he said. "If I can just think back to say if that Little Caesars Arena project never happened then there wouldn’t be (people like me with skilled trades careers)."
The vote sends the District Detroit brownfield plan covering 10 development projects to the City Council for possible approval in March.
Nearly two dozen people offered questions or comments during the first public hearing on a requested $616 million subsidy.
More than 200 filled a Wooward Ave. church on the federal holiday to detail how Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy lives on in Detroit and beyond