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Detroit City Legislation
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The Hudson's building (a department store which used to be the companies flagship store and stood for nearly 100 years) was recently demolished, September 1998, which was a controversial issue because the city spent money to demolish the site ignoring some developers who wanted to refurbish the building.
Also there were reports that building's structure was in excellent shape. There was no known entity at the time that would move into that area and criticism centered around the city council approving funds which could have been spent on known developments at that time.
The fears of the Hudson's demolition damaging the People Mover came true with the People Mover being partly disabled for over a year. Also the dust could that swept through the cities downtown area took a few weeks to clean up and reports that there was asbestos in the air were never proven nor disproved.
Compuware, the global computer services firm, recently announced it was moving its world headquarters into Downtown Detroit occupying the parcel of land where Hudson's once stood.
It was announced that the company would be given $70 million dollars in tax breaks. Awarded the parcel of land for its headquarters for a $1 fee. And the city would also spend $70 million in infrastructure improvements prior to Compuware beginning construction.
Furthermore this companies Chairman, Peter Karmanous, had publicly stated that he did not want any public handouts of money from the city of Detroit. To sell this proposal the attraction of jobs was spoken of to the media and Detroit residents but it was soon learned that there would be no new jobs just a relocation of jobs from one of Detroit's suburban neighbors to the downtown area.
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