A Sheltered Downtown?
9 December 2000 - 1:00pm
Pontiac is "trying hard to reinvent itself" by turning its downtown into a "regional entertainment district"...so it is squeezing out a 60-year old shelter for at-risk women and children.
A request for expanding a local facility for at-risk women and children was turned down for the third time by the planning commission. Their proposed use for the property is a parking lot. "[Social Service] agencies [tend to] locate where rents were lowest and transportation most convenient for their clients...[The planning commission] sided with some business owners who argued that the presence of too many panhandlers and loiterers in the area drives away customers...[C]ity officials say they are protecting Pontiac's long-term interests."
Full Story:
Pontiac's Sheltered Downtown
Source:
The Detroit News, December 8, 2000
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