Oakwood Heights, Detroit-Area Ghost Town, The Flipside Of Oilsands Wealth

Business | 206823 hits | Apr 14 9:31 am | Posted by: DrCaleb

DETROIT - It looks like a ghost town, and Canadian oil helped build it.The burned-out, abandoned parcels of property in a west-end Detroit neighbourhood are the reverse image of an oil boom town � a ramshackle yin to the thriving yang of Fort McMurray,

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by Anonymous
Mon Apr 14, 2014 5:59 pm
lol blame Alberta for a vacant neighborhood in Detroit and the pollution to boot. Oh look another story by the CP er CBC. Big surprise!
by martin14
Mon Apr 14, 2014 6:12 pm
The old woman sounds like the old people who refused to leave the area around Chernobyl.
by saturn_656
Mon Apr 14, 2014 6:24 pm
Or the people still living in Centralia.

There are always holdouts.
by BartSimpson
Mon Apr 14, 2014 6:29 pm
WTF does a failed neighborhood in Detroit have to do with oilsands?

That neighborhood fell into ruin forty years ago and that has nothing at all to do with the oilsands and everything to do with a series of corrupt Democrat regimes ruining the city and raping the public treasury.
by Jonny_C
Mon Apr 14, 2014 7:56 pm
"BartSimpson" said
WTF does a failed neighborhood in Detroit have to do with oilsands?

That neighborhood fell into ruin forty years ago and that has nothing at all to do with the oilsands and everything to do with a series of corrupt Democrat regimes ruining the city and raping the public treasury.

I think you're right --- an extremely tenuous connection. Simply an attempt to cause a stir.
by PluggyRug
Mon Apr 14, 2014 8:03 pm
The author must be into science fiction.
by BartSimpson
Mon Apr 14, 2014 8:49 pm
"PluggyRug" said
The author must be into science fiction.

Speaking of Andy, maybe if Detroit had a higher minimum wage this wouldn't have happened.
by andyt
Tue Apr 15, 2014 12:00 am
Sounds to me the company was more tha fair, paying triple the value of the value of the houses. This woman says she will have no money left from the payout after she pays her debts, so it's not worth it. Does being debt free not count, does she not plan to pay her debts back?

I was expecting a doom and gloom story, instead we got a good news one. Hell, even this woman is better off, since it's now safer where she lives.
by Public_Domain
Tue Apr 15, 2014 12:00 am
by Freakinoldguy
Tue Apr 15, 2014 12:31 pm
And none of this would have had anything to do with Mayor Dave Bing's attempt to shrink the city back to a much reduced size so they could stop offering services to neighbourhoods with only a few people in them?

Nothing to see here. This would have eventually happened to Oakwood Heights one way or the other and for the residents, it worked out for the best.
by Freakinoldguy
Tue Apr 15, 2014 12:42 pm
"martin14" said
The old woman sounds like the old people who refused to leave the area around Chernobyl.

I thought she was one of those types until I read this.

She doesn't really have any complaints about the company, whose trucks help patrol what's left of the neighbourhood. She simply says it would have to double its offer to get her to consider moving.

Her family figures the money's out there.

A very rough calculation based on the average offer per house, excluding demolition costs, suggests the whole relocation program might have cost the Marathon Oil Corp. less than one per cent of the overall price tag for its $2.2-billion plant renovation.

Sentimentality be damned, in the immortal words of Rod Tidwell it's, SHOW! ME! THE! MONEY!

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