(With all apologies to the poet Joyce Kilmer.) By Charles Sercombe At first glance, it seems counter-intuitive. Just plain wrong. Even a big, husky guy like Darren Grow, the city’s Director of the Downtown Development Authority, admits “it breaks my heart.” All right, go ahead and call us tree huggers, but to watch a work [...]
By Charles Sercombe There’s good news and bad news for the residents who sued the city because their basements flooded. First the good news. The City Council agreed to settle two separate lawsuits regarding basement flooding for $1.6 million. But don’t start popping the champagne corks. Here comes the bad news. You likely won’t get [...]
By Alan R. Madeleine Last week at a special School Board Meeting, Gerald Butler, the attorney for the school district, laid it out. It wasn’t the prettiest picture, but it‘s the best one custodial employees can paint. That picture being the wage and benefit concessions proposed by AFSCME Local 257 – which also includes maintenance [...]
What is our City Council up to these days? We have the highlights of the latest council meeting. By Charles Sercombe The City Council met on Sept. 27, with Councilmembers Kazi Miah and Shahab Ahmed absent. The meeting ran for over two-and-a-half hours, which also included a closed meeting. Sit back and crack open a [...]
By Charles Sercombe Imagine being able to live in a finished loft here in Hamtramck that’s also loaded with top-of-the line appliances. Seems pretty nice, eh? But it gets better. You can own one of four of these lofts for the insanely low price of $40,000. The only catch is, they’re not for sale yet. [...]
By David Piestrzynski Special to The Review The former Shopper’s World building is drawing a lot of attention these days. Last week, 50 developers toured the site with Jason Friedmann, Hamtramck’s Director of Community & Economic Development. The city is seeking proposals for the building’s redevelopment. The city wants the ground floor to be used [...]
When you get stuck with paying an extra $140 to $180 in property taxes this December, you can thank your neighbor. There are several hundred of them, actually, that you can thank. That’s because they were part of one of two lawsuits filed against the city after their basements flooded three years ago, and then [...]
“Hall of Shame” presents some of the worst cases of blight in the city in the hopes that someone from City Hall will take note. Well, one can only hope. By Charles Sercombe What is it about elderly women in this town being plagued by blight? Maybe we’re exaggerating, but we have heard about another [...]
By Charles Sercombe As everyone knows, Hamtramck is a melting pot of cultures. But it’s also true that the varying ethnic groups in the city rarely melt together, so to speak. Not so on Zinow St. Six years ago, Russ Gordon moved from Caniff to Zinow and noticed his neighbors never interacted socially. That bugged [...]
By Charles Sercombe By a slim majority, the City Council OK’d a deal to hire an engineering company to apply for a $1 million state grant to figure out how to repair the city’s sewer system. There is no question whether the city’s decades old sewer system needs fixing. A number of Hamtramck basements have [...]
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