NOTE: There are two different bodies currently moving toward a vote on The District Detroit project, The Neighborhood Advisory Council, which is negotiating Community Benefits with the Developer and the Board of Directors of the Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority.
The CBA Process - Cass Tech Tuesday nights at 6pm
This is part of the the community benefits process where the 9 member Neighborhood Advisory Council is negotiating with the developers for benefits. These meetings are mandated by the city’s Community Benefits Ordinance due to the size of the project extreme amount of public funding requested. We anticipate the final CBA meeting will be February 21 then the resulting Community Benefits Agreement will move to City Council for final approval. These meetings are Cass Tech Auditorium. If unable to attend in person join ZOOM: bit.ly/DistrictDetroitCBO and/or Email the Neighborhood Advisory Council districtdetroitNAC@gmail.com - We will post a full update on the developers unacceptable presentation to the NAC later in the week. Plan to join us at Cass Tech again on Feb 14, 2023.
Today, we are focused on the DBRA.
Call to Action TODAY!
Demand the DBRA Board
VOTE NO on The District Detroit
Transformational Brownfield Plan
The DBRA Transformative Brownfield Vote TODAY at 4pm
The DBRA Transformative Brownfield Vote TODAY at 4pm
The Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority Board of Directors are scheduled to vote on the project’s Transformational Brownfield Plan in the DBRA Regular Meeting today at 4pm. The total request for public investment is $797.75 million, with $616 million Transformational Brownfield funds facilitating the tax capture of $226.8 million from schools and $5.7 million from libraries for up to 35 years.
On Monday, the Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority (DBRA) held a public hearing on The District Detroit's Transformational Brownfield Plan. Despite meeting at 5pm, a time inaccessible for many everyday Detroiters, nearly 80 people were in attendance and 19 of them engaged in the process, asked hard questions and were UNANIMOUSLY CRITICAL OF THE PROJECT. Representatives of Olympia and Related were disrespectful during the meeting, with one commented having to call them out for sidebar conversations and checking phones and laptops rather than listening to resident concerns.
Watch the screen grab of the Public Hearing: https://youtu.be/0fxfdTanusk
Detroit Free Press -
$1.5B District Detroit buildout faces heavy criticism at public hearing over incentives
“Yet resident Theo Pride of the Detroit People's Platform said during the hearing that the proposed affordable rents would still not be affordable enough for many Detroiters. The project, he said, “will hurt majority Black Detroit — period. It will displace Black people while redistributing resources from the Black public to private white pocketbooks.”
The DBRA's Board of Directors are scheduled to vote on the plan TODAY Wednesday February 8, 2023 at 4pm. Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/DistrictDetroitDBRAVote
Written comment can be submitted to ccapler@degc.org with a request for them to be read into public comments at the "DBRA Regular Meeting on Feb 8, 2023" You can also attend the meeting virtually and make public comment to the Board of Directors prior to their vote. Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/DistrictDetroitDBRAVote
- More about THE DISTRICT DETROIT https://www.detroitpeoplesplatform.org/districtdetroit/
- Read: Who'll be voting on the nearly $1 Billion in public funding for the Ross/Ilitch District Detroit development project? - Read online and share
Ilitch has taken too much already!
Have you seen? do you know?
The DBRA Board of Directors
Demand They Vote No!
Note: The names and positions are taken from the DEGC website. Some of their information is incorrect, we have corrected it where possible.
Maggie DESANTIS
Note: Former President, Warren/Conner Development Coalition
Amanda ELIAS
Senior Advisor, Government Affairs, City of Detroit
John GEORGE
(Vice Chair)
President CEO, Motor City Blight Busters
Sonya MAYS
President & CEO, Develop Detroit
Pamela MCCLAIN
(Secretary)
Executive Assistant, Mayor’s Office,
City of Detroit
Juan GONZALEZ
Gonzalez Law, PLLC
Ray SCOTT
(Chairperson)
Deputy Director, BSEED,
City of Detroit
Stephanie WASHINGTON
(Treasurer)
Chief of Staff, Mayor’s Office,
City of Detroit
Eric DUEWEKE
Note: Retired Community Partnerships Manager
University of Michigan/Taubman College
Note: The names and positions are taken from the DEGC website. Some of their information is incorrect, we have corrected it where possible.
Demand the DBRA Board
VOTE NO on The District Detroit
Transformational Brownfield Plan
The Vote is Wed Feb 8 @ 4pm
Use the bitly link to attend the DBRA Regular Meeting for the VOTE on Wednesday, February 8 at 4pm. This links to the DEGC site NOT directly to Zoom. Written comment can be submitted to ccapler@degc.org with a request to be read into public comments at the meeting. https://bit.ly/DistrictDetroitDBRAVote