![]() ![]() ![]() Who has the most? Surface parking lots? In Downtown Detroit? No, really. Left: Readers, weigh in– does the rainbow display at the Little Caesars Global Supervillain Lair Megaplex make the Ilitch Organization sufficiently “woke” to make up for how badly they’ve screwed the taxpayers of a majority Black city? Right: Comerica Park Inter-Inning Minigame. And given that the island ends up, well, trashed for weeks to come. I am unclear as to what this investment looks like, given that few, if any, of the limited number of vendors are actually Detroit-based vendors. The race brings “investment” in the city, and for this we are supposed to be grateful. Advocates to keep it in place– mostly, from my experience, white suburbanites- say that You People Should Be Grateful For These Suburbanites Spending Their Hard-Earned Dough In The City Their Parents Fled And Then Said Racist Shit About For Half A Century. Sports go ball, cars go vroom! Grand Prix to NZ: “U Mad, Bro? “įor the uninitiated, I have a sincere disgust for the idea of an event that ties up the crown jewel of our city’s frankly grossly underdeveloped parks system for weeks and weeks. ![]() So, why not combine the two in one weekend? I enjoy a good baseball game! And I figured that, given how much time I spend railing about the iniquities of the Grand Prix, I probably had to see for myself what it was all about. The genesis of my unusual involvement in this activity? My partner’s friend was visiting Detroit as part of a years-long conquest to visit every Major League Baseball stadium in the United States. Uh, also known as the Belle Isle or Detroit Grand Prix. ![]() Anyway, last weekend, I carried this thread forward to a whole ‘nother level and had my first and what will probably turn out to be my only experience attending the Somethingth Annual Local Car Company Car Race Presented By Car Company. Tragedy of the commons, ya know– a commons not served by buses. It’s kind of hard to get to the island on a bus. A couple of weeks ago, we spoke with Dave Gifford, local transit guru and the Eeyore of Michigan transportation infrastructure, about his communication with the Department of Natural Resources about his public comment on transit connectivity with Belle Isle. ![]()
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