A Northeast Jackson nuisance shut down two weeks ago.
The store has been a magnet for vagrants and suffered more than its fair share of robberies. Hopefully it will soon become a pile of rubble to be carried away but someone will probably reopen the store.
25 comments:
Kingfish,
Isn’t the real problem with vagrancy in that area due to the abandoned Triad Office building on the other side of the interstate? It’s become the local vagrant housing. Even WLBT has reported on that building!
Countless crimes have occured there-
Access and egress are awkward here.
I'm guessing the Northeast corner of Briarwood and I-55. Risked my life there maybe twice in the last 20 years when running out of smokes. 40+ years ago it was a pretty nice Amoco station where we filled up with the high test 93 octane stuff for our foreign sports cars. Nowadays just another piece of land that's gonna get free'd up by any means necessary, right?
1:52 PM
But convenient enough to rob repeatedly.
Awkward access indeed.
Pouring rain in rush hour a few years ago, and some kid going eastbound decided he needed to stop there just as I was passing westbound.
The westbound left lane of traffic decides to pause and let kid thru without telling me in the right lane so kid slammed into my drivers side door.
I was more worried about getting mugged (while waiting over an hour for JPD) than I was about the wreck.
Cursed area. Thousands of lives taken there, next door.
I wouldn't stop there for anything.
One business a day, the Chowke way. 500+ abandoned homes; abandoned hotels/motels everywhere; Detroit v2.0.
"Access and egress are awkward here."
Not if you're on foot or skateboard. Or taking a 'Magic Carpet Ride'.
3:41 PM, you risk your life every time you light up a cigarette.
Tear it down
Years ago, I was running low on gas and headed back to Madison. Thought I could make it and ran out of gas on the exit to this fine establishment.
Walked up there to get a gas can. Paid $40 for a 1 gallon gas can. I thought about refusing and the well-mannered attendant threatened me.
@8:36
You paid the stupid tax.
They need to tear down the motel behind it too.
@8:36..Why that's...(wait for it)...Highway Robbery.
@4:58
You obviously haven’t been to Detroit in 9 years. It’s rebuilt and doing well. This isn’t a racist comment due to there white mayor. But he’s done well. Also owners of little Caesar’s mgm and redwings all have done a huge part. Not to mention nba team owner Dan Gilbert pumping in a billion dollars in private redevelopment.
@7:16 AM - you obviously don't have a clue of what "v2.0" means.
4:55 -- I see your reference to the old abortion clinic next door....I'm from this area and live in this area. Its not safe, and I sadly plan on moving, but I don't think its because of the location of an abortion clinic once upon a time. Now, it could be the 3 hotels right there where JPD allows the continued drug and P^$$@ sales, and now the Triad building, but what do I know...
PS this was the beer store for all underage/HS kids in the area during the late 90s early 2000s...those owners were great! ha
Nearly every time someone shows up here to share the good news about Detroit they fail to provide even a passing mention that all the new found goodness BEGAN with Detroit's bankruptcy.
Jackson IS Detroit v2.0 as the city is making every damn mistake Detroit made before the BK.
Unfortunately, since the city of Jackson’s idea of economic development is the building of gas stations, we will have a new modern version to take its place soon enough
Let me get this right. A building is causing people to commit crimes. I thought guns were the only thing that did that. If they tear down the building do you think people are going to quit committing crimes?
How many buildings has to be demolished before the people in Jackson will stop killing each other? Maybe we can even tear down the prisons as well and the streets will become safe enough to walk down.
I just can't understand why people are continually looking for something to blame for crime so they do not have to blame the criminals.
What we have here is the taxpayers are going to pay for the demolition that the property owner is responsible for doing. Then the (new) owner can build anew without the demo expenses, thanks to the few taxpayers remaining in Jackistan.
Ahhhh... passed there today and it sure looked open to me...?
No, 9:04 - they still have some lighted signage going, but the store is closed, and has been for awhile.
10:24 Oh, I get it... "lights on but nobody's home"... just like Jackson leadership.
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