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Station. An icon if there ever was one, representing Detroit’s rise and fall. It is so structurally sound demolition experts say would cost an estimated $5-10 Million just to demolish and anywhere from $100-300 million to renovate. More of an issue for Detroit is finding a function for the forgotten station. It was built by the same architects as New York City’s Grand Central Terminal. In service from 1913 to 1988, The Beaux-Art style was very influential during its conception. There is the train station

into being a viable business concept. The team really hit what Kawasaki called the “Sweet Spot”(AOS pg9). It was obvious that members of the team had good expertise and love for the sport of soccer and wanted it to be more relevant in the city of Detroit so they hit that right on the dot. Secondly Passion

Of course because of his union leadership, many working Americans considered Hoffa as their hero. But it is believed that one of his enemies may have had something to do with his disappearance in 1975. During that year on July 30th. Hoffa left Detroit for a meeting with a local crime figure and a mob-connected union leader that was from New Jersey. The met at a restaurant in Bloomfield Township. They met up so they could try settling a feud. But Hoffa was the only person who showed up. The people

A) TIME magazine B) "Social Justice," a newsletter published by another Detroit anti-Semite, Father Charles E. Coughlin C) Ford's own newspaper, the DEARBORN INDEPENDENT D) THE JEFFERSONIAN magazine, published by Thomas E. Watson, a Georgia politician and member of the Ku Klux Klan 12.Who is credited with driving the first gasoline-powered vehicle through the streets of Detroit in 1896? A) Henry Ford B) Ransom E. Olds C) Gottlieb Daimler D) Charles Brady King 13.What was one

Flint is not new to emergency management, as it was one of the initial cities to be under the system with an appointed emergency manager, and has had four emergency managers in a span of a few years, beginning in 2011 (Hakala, 2016). Much earlier than this, in 2002, Flint was first appointed an emergency manager who was to rescue Flint’s financial crisis at the time, and this emergency manager was in charge of the finances of the city of Flint until 2006, when it was said that the financial troubles

Every year, tens of thousands of people come to Detroit, Michigan with hopes of getting a glimpse of Hitsville U.S.A. Since 1985, the recording studio that once produced and made the dreams of many famous singers a reality has been a popular tourist attraction, known as Motown Museum. Motown Museum is open five days a week to local and international visitors. Visitors are given a tour through Studio A, where they can stand in the same room in which their favorite Motown artist stood. Additionally

Automobile Industrialization Alexandra Huotari 10/17/16 US History 5th hour Mr. Griffith Table of Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………………….2 The Impact of Resource Availability…………………………………………...……2 Entrepreneurial Decision Making by Henry Ford and Others…………………..…..2-3 Domestic and International Migrations………………………………………….…..3 The Development of an Industrial Workforce……………………………………….4 The Impact on Michigan…………………………………………………………….4 The impact on American

Think about Detroit and what it is today, would you have thought that Detroit’s skyline was the greatest in the world for architectural style? Well, you may have to change your mind. The roaring twenties were a time of growth and great economic wealth for many places, especially the United States and Europe. With new technology anything could happen as some would say it. Automobiles were very important and started to grow in the eyes of manufacturers and consumers. Detroit was growing with industrial

City, and Detroit Today, Detroit, New York City and Chicago have many similarities They're highly populated cities with high crime rates, many homeless people, noisy streets and terrible traffic. In contrast, they attract many tourists with their tall skyscrapers, and their famous attractions. As well as similarities, there's also, many differences. Today, Chicago and New York City are known for having many job opportunities and luring people in with promising careers. Whereas in Detroit, it's known

The racial undertones of Detroit have been extremely problematic to Detroit’s real estate market for well over 50 years. These social disruptions continue to have an effect on the current residents of Detroit. During the middle of the nineteenth century, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) introduced real estate tactics such as redlining, which is the practice of flagging minority dense neighborhoods for the purposes of denying approval of mortgages or inflating the price of the homes. Redlining