Jun17

day in the d.

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fun day with colleagues in detroit

starting on the detroit river

visiting the only mailboat in the world with its own zip code

still waiting for someone to claim this bag

then off to the detroit river fire boat

and one of the oldest fire stations in the city

sculpture in riverside park

featuring steel from the old joe louis arena

made my detroit’s nordin brothers

and on to detroit’s central station

brought back to life

and lovingly restored

by ford motor company

soon to be their new world headquarters

so many people in the city, working hard

keeping it running and building it back

—

“i think detroit is where muscle meets brains.”

-*dan gilbert

 

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*Dan Gilbert is an American billionaire, Detroit businessman, and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and majority owner of Rocket Mortgage, founder of Rock Ventures, and owner of the National Basketball Association’s Cleveland Cavaliers. Dan Gilbert cofounded what would become Quicken Loans, the largest mortgage lender in the U.S., in 1985 at 22 years old. He and his companies have invested $5.6 billion to purchase and rehab a swath of buildings in downtown Detroit, with a plan to create 24,000 jobs.

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  1. Good to see that lovely building restored and to be used again. We have fire-boats on the River Thames in London. We also have mail-boats that deliver to remote islands in Scotland. The boats don’t have their own post-code though. :)
    Best wishes, Pete.

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    • I love the boats that have jobs to do and this building was used as a backdrop for many horror and armageddon films over the years, as it fell into such disrepair. I’m (and the city), are so happy it’s being restored and will be used once again

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  2. I’m an old ‘Fords’ worker here in Geelong (now closed), back in the 1970’s … the revitalization of Detriot to create so many jobs, appears to be a truly fantastic initiative

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  18. What a great day! I love touring my city and discovering or rediscovering things I had forgotten; learning about new and old stuff. Love that the boat has its own zip code!
    Thank you for the lovely tour. Go Detroit!

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