Street barricade between Grosse Pointe Park and Detroit to be taken down

[gollygee]

http://detroit.curbed.com/archives/2014/08/the-summer-of-the-barricade-come-to-a-close-takes-barricade-with-it.php

Interesting issue. Can a wealthy city that doesn't like it's poorer and less white neighbor city just block off the street?

[gollygee]

1. Another article

http://motorcitymuckraker.com/2014/06/20/grosse-pointe-park-blocks-off-main-road-at-detroit-border-to-build-farmers-market/

It is the fourth such barrier that Grosse Pointe Park has erected that prevents Detroit traffic from entering the predominately white community. That same location was blocked for months late last year because of what Park officials said were sewer line problems. And this winter, Kercheval at Alter was also blocked off by massive snow piles.

The latest plan is to create a farmers market in the middle of Kercheval at the border of Detroit at Alter, which has long been the symbolic dividing line between impoverished Detroit and affluent Grosse Pointe.

Crews have already blocked off the street and are building a concrete market square in the middle of Kercheval.

“I want to say I’m shocked,” Cynthia Jackson, who lives near Alter in Detroit, said. “But this has been happening for as long as I remember. Might as well put up a sign that says, ‘No coloreds.'”