Dearborn could certainly use the jobs and additional shoppers coming through the city. No one can argue that. I’m not sure, however, that a second-hand goodwill store in our otherwise trendy downtown area is what the doctor ordered. It has been my understanding that Mr. Newman’s greed with regard to high rent has been the reason the multiple vacant spaces in this shopping strip have remained that way for so many years. Perhaps he should re-evaluate his methods in order to bring in retailers that will attract customers which will find the higher-end shops and restaurants in our downtown more in line with their demographic.

Great. A dollar store on one end and a Goodwill on the other. All West Dearborn needs now is a Blood Donor clinic for cash in the old Michael’s location and we have replicated Detroit on that little strip mall. I do not think our leaders will ever get the picture. Money, money, money, no matter what brings it in, be Goodwill, Dollar stores or Methadone clinics possibly, cahs is better than closed in their ignorant eyes. Vote all of these idiots out of office. Hey, how about closing the Dearborn Chamber of Commerce, that will save some money too.

Please tell me where the “trendy downtown area” is???

why can’t he be forced out??? The lady that owns HiTech Nails, who used to be a renter of his said just what you’re saying – she moved out because he kept the rents too high. he inheirited the property (she said) and he doesn’t need the money.

Marshall’s, several dollar stores, Burlington’s, and now Goodwill. It’s very disappointing that low-end stores keep opening when Dearborn used to be a city where people came to shop at stores like Jacobson’s, Crowley’s, and Muirhead’s. This is very sad news.

There are upscale second hand store that exist in the area called Ragstock. There are several locations around. See
http://www.ragstock.com Unfortunatly our genius leaders in this City cannot see beyond their pockets. If we want a “trendy” Dearborn, you have to start to think that way. Give these places incentives to move in. We are going down the wrong path, anyone is better than no one is not the way forward. Have our leaders looked at this from all angles? I bet not, the easiest solution is to fill an empty building with anything. I remember the days when the City had something called “A Master Plan”. I think this plan has been scrapped for “let anything with a check book move in”. This is another example of our idiots we have in office and I include the Dearborn Chamber of Commerce. I bet you won’t be seeing Jennifer shopping there!!

Well, I’m not so sure he could be forced out. He’s a private land owner. Perhaps the city council has (or should have) some ability to give “incentives” to property owners not to allow their space to go vacant for extended periods of time and punish them if they do. As for our downtown…we do have several bars and restaurants (Double Olive, The Post, BWW, Ciao, Buddy’s, etc…) which bring in consumers from other suburbs and are not found in every town. We may never be as trendy as say a Royal Oak, for example, mainly because our downtown district is dated and built on US-12, which will never offer the same flexibility and design options that other cities “main streets” provide purely because ours is on a state maintained US Highway.

What great leaders we have running the Chamber (all Jennifer cares about is members,and the fee for joining the Chamber — how about the perception of the thses shitty type of businessses).

A little sarcasm on your part Donna. Give the residents a reason to shop in Dearborn.

O’Reilley wouldn’t let Kohl’s into Dearborn because it was to low brow. Second hand is classier?

Before any of you prejudge the proposed Goodwill store in downtown west Dearborn (DTWD), go visit the beautiful store they have in Canton. Also, one of the Bloomfield’s either has or is in the process of opening up a Goodwill store there.

The city has to give residents a place to shop in Dearborn before they can give then a reason Ali.