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bif

(23,830 posts) Mon Dec 11, 2023, 04:44 PM Dec 2023

Help save the Detroit Boat Club!

Here's a link where you can add your comments about this. Haven't we lost enough of our history due to demolition?

https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/managing-resources/prd/boathouse?utm_campaign=boathouse+options&utm_medium=pr&utm_source=govdelivery

And pass this along to all your friends and family!

Thanks

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Help save the Detroit Boat Club! (Original Post) bif Dec 2023 OP

thanks for sharing! What an amazing place NoSheep Dec 2023 #1

If it can be restored using donations, great. JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2023 #2

It's owned by the City of Detroit. bif Dec 2023 #3

NoSheep

(8,265 posts)

1. thanks for sharing! What an amazing place

Reply to bif (Original post)

Mon Dec 11, 2023, 05:07 PM

Dec 2023

Dreaming...If it weren't so cold there and I 30 yrs younger, I'd be interested in moving to Detroit. It fascinates me. The amazing buildings falling to ruin.. If I were a billionaire I'd renovate and make each and every one a public facility for learning and play.
Art classes, sports grounds, performance spaces.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,735 posts)

2. If it can be restored using donations, great.

Reply to bif (Original post)

Mon Dec 11, 2023, 05:49 PM

Dec 2023

I'm not a fan of using public funds to restore private clubhouses.

Most of the other items in the article are open to the public: the fountain, bhe aquarium, etc, so I don't mind my taxes going to rmaintain them.

bif

(23,830 posts)

3. It's owned by the City of Detroit.

Reply to JustABozoOnThisBus (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 11, 2023, 07:49 PM

Dec 2023

So it's not a private clubhouse.

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