Demolition to Begin on Dearborn Quality Inn
The Quality Inn at Michigan and Brady in Dearborn will soon be razed.
Say good-bye to the Quality Inn, the long-vacant, badly decaying building at the corner of Michigan and Brady.
If all goes as planned, the building will come down by the end of September, according to officials in Dearborn’s economic development department. City officials this week are expected to meet with the demolition company to go over some final details so work can begin.
The property, owned by the Dearborn Historical Museum, will be used to expand the museum’s space and a portion will be put on the market for interested parties to develop with light retail. At one point, the site was considered a possible site for student housing for those who attend the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
With the economy still weak in the knees and banks tight-fisted with loans these days, it is hard to image the property being quickly developed. Even so, removing this eyesore will go a long way to improving the look of west Dearborn.
Now, if we could just get some of those other rotting buildings along Michigan Avenue in west Dearborn removed . . .
August 23rd, 2010 at 9:06 am
On the topic of eye sores, why is this property so bad and all the other properties of the “preferred developer” allowed to just sit and rot. At least three of his properties were on the condemned list and are now, supposedly, being fixed up on the outside only.
It’s time for the city to wake up before the entire “business district” is gone.
We just ate in East Dearborn on Warren Avenue this weekend. These buildings and businesses are owned by the individuals who run them. It is a thriving area.
It’s funny that they can thrive without a “preferred developer”. Makes you think.
August 23rd, 2010 at 9:42 am
great news! it’s been dangerous to bike through there!
August 23rd, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Cloe you are so right, however, don’t believe that this will take place quickly, because as you know O’Reilly moves real slow (that has been his past pattern). As far as the expansion plan, he will try to b.s. the people that they are sort of funds, and how about chipping in to help.
August 24th, 2010 at 7:54 am
Nice to know they have plans to raise this commercial eyesore soon. A house in my neighborhood was due to be demolished last fall. The brilliant City did not get it done then and then we had the streets repaved this summer. Now the heavy equipment will come in and crack the new pavement and sidewalks. They even sodded on the easement and re-cemented up to the house! Talk about p-ss poor planning and WASTE of resources! What’s next?
Good point, Chloe! Tired of the same old same old. Just a rehash of the prior administration.
August 24th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
We have a house in my neighborhood that was to be torn down 2 years ago and is still standing vacant. It is an eye sore. They removed 90 trees from the lot too. How much longer? We have asked everyone without any answers. My tax dollars at work????
August 25th, 2010 at 9:12 am
Our City fathers appear to be brain dead, starting with the big fella. It appears they start things, and overlook the obvious things that are important to the business district, as well as the neighborhoods. Get your acts together, it appears you guys are on different pages. Start something and finish it, before you continue to operate in a hap-hazard way, but then again that is how this operation does business. I hope the people will get rid of all the bums soon.
August 25th, 2010 at 1:37 pm
I recently email the mayor with some questions regarding Public Service Days and in his answer there was a sentence that puzzled me – “I believe in continuous improvement and am trying to change the culture at City Hall.” Wonder what that means?
August 25th, 2010 at 2:24 pm
there are several longterm residents there-
August 25th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
In other words Donna the big fella blew u off, because he can’t come up with something to save concrete. I understand that he has Norwood answer a lot of his E-Mails because as he says he is simply to busy of a man — he doesn’t know what busy is actually.
August 26th, 2010 at 8:33 am
Hakim – I am sure that he is ‘to busy’ to answer the thousands of emails he must receive in an given week! I also assume that he is much to busy to have the coffee hour with the mayor that he did have at one time. It’s a shame because I am sure he could answer a lot of our questions at a one to one talk session.
August 26th, 2010 at 10:29 am
I would love to see the “coffee hour” come back.
Deep – why don’t you suggest it to him. I think that the problem is that too many people just want to complain at them and not listen and then ask questions. It would be great to have them back if we can all be civil.
August 26th, 2010 at 11:43 am
Maybe if enough of us emailed him he might consider it once again.
August 26th, 2010 at 11:48 am
Cloe- “too many people complain to him”? People usually get cut-off after one sentence and then he goes on about something totally unrelated.
August 27th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Donna and Cloe, give us a break. He’s too busy, what does he do, he is supposed to be out and about listening, to what the people throughout the City have to talk about, its part of his job, however, he must fail to realize this,because if u don’t agree with Big Jack, then u are against him, in his way of thinking. Grow some balls Big Jack, and face the people, instead of being a worm.
August 27th, 2010 at 1:45 pm
Well Hakim I guess you were right, I emailed the mayor yesterday with one simple question- Do you have any plans of bringing back the ‘coffee hour with the mayor’? Very simple question right. Guess he is to busy to even send a yes or no reply.
September 3rd, 2010 at 7:49 pm
Donna, Hakim – the correct usage is “too busy.”
September 5th, 2010 at 6:17 pm
Well apparently he is still “too busy” because he still hasn’t answered my question.
I would also like to ask a question to Hakim Fakhoury – not the Hakim that posts here – If I remember correctly we asked you a couple of years ago if you would be willing to participate in a coffee hour with the mayor and you answered yes but we never heard back from the mayor at that time either – am right?
September 8th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Ref the tear down-it always amazes me that people are so quick to condemn and assest when the City fails to live up to its own maintanence codes-ie the City owns the motel-it is a resource(what would happen if there is a disaster there it a sudden need for shelter for several hundred poeple?).A few well spent dollars to remove the dangingly soffit on the motel office would be money well spect vs the many thousands of dollars needed to remove the buildings which were in fact upgraded within the last few years. When is the City going to put its brains to work fguring out how to use these sites instead of just tearing things down. The City’s history with “letting buildings go” to then justify their demise is a pattern!Lookl at what replaced Jacobsons and had much hpye about being filled with businesses (that mostly haven’t come or come and go with great frequency). Now the builder that brought us the Jacabson’s replacements et al is pleading bankruptcy and the City wants us to beleive that removing a the motel is a great thing to do? The motel property will be just another example of vacant land that will not produce taxes and will be empty for many years as was the blank spot that a prior mayor created soon after he entered office that remained empty for 10 years. The whole point of this is the terms of rotting and eyesore are too easy to use adnwhen there really are other options!!