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Detroit News Roundup for Tuesday, December 11, 2007

It is Tuesday, December 11, 2007 and these are my picks for articles published today.

5 Detroit schools among top-ranked in US

5 Detroit schools among top-ranked in U.S.

Five Detroit Public Schools have been ranked among the top 8% U.S. high schools by U.S. News and World Report.

Detroit is a big city with a big school system. It’s not a suburb with a single high school. There are tons of high schools and they are not all the same nor do they try to be the same. The top ranked schools were Renaissance High School, Cass Tech, Communicating Media Arts, Davis Aerospace, and the Detroit School of the Arts.
[via Detroit Free Press]

Health Plan of Michigan moving to Detroit this weekend

Health Plan of Michigan will move its operations and 111 employees to downtown Detroit over the weekend of Dec. 15-16.

As reported by Crains in September, the company is moving to the One Kennedy Square building at 777 Woodward Ave.

Another company moves to downtown Detroit bringing 111 people directly downtown everyday. The ball keeps rolling.
[via Crain’s Detroit Business]

Detroit makes traveling hot spot list for 2008

Detroit makes the New York Times list of the 53 places to go in 2008, just under San Francisco, and ahead of such intriguing locales as the celeb hot-spot of Itacare, Brazil Kilimanjaro, Algeria and the Moroccon port city of Essaouira, noted for ancient streets, surf and a world music festival.

The article acknowledges that Detroit might not first spring to mind as a tourist hot spot, but goes on to mention some impressive newcomers on the hotel and arts scene, among them: The MGM Grand Detroit, the MotorCity Casino Hotel and the $158 million renovation of the Detroit Institute of Arts .

[via MLive.com]

Entertainment Buzz

Grammy-winning R singer Mary J. Blige will perform next month on the Detroit riverfront at the GM Style event, a run-up to the annual international auto show. All concept and production vehicles at GM Style will be rolled out in a fashion runway show to live music. More cars and talent will be announced in the coming weeks. Blige has sold 40 million records since her debut in 1991 with What’s the 411? Her eighth album, Growing Pains, hits stores Dec. 18. General Motors staged the first GM Style event last year. It’s an invitation-only party.

The late son of reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith was killed by a combination of methadone and the antidepressants Zoloft and Lexapro — a cocktail that would have turned lethal after about five hours — a pathologist testified yesterday.

[via London Free Press]

City, ‘burbs in win-win situation

News like Livonias Quicken Loans plan to re-locate to Detroit may seem like a zero-sum game, but the benefit to the city and the region is immeasurable, according to area experts.

Excerpt: “The most successful metropolitan areas have the highest concentration of workers with four-year degrees. That’s going to mean more young people, and young people are drawn to high-activity downtown areas,” (President of Ann Arbor-based Michigan Future Inc Lou) Glazer said. “It’s hard to see this metropolitan area adopting that model without the city of Detroit playing that function.”

[via Model D]

LA artist lists reasons she loves Detroit (and Hamtramck)

LA-based fabric artist Lisa Auerbach has nice things to says about her visit to Detroit in The Little Red Blog of Revolutionary Knitting.

Excerpt: “I just got back from Detroit and I’m totally stoked. I love it there. I carried a loaf of break from the Avalon bakery all the way back to Los Angeles and it is truly one of the most delicious loaves of bread ever. Wow.

[via Model D]

Northwest opens New Service to London Heathrow

Scheduled to begin in the Spring of 2008, Northwests new nonstop services will conveniently connect London Heathrow with more than 250 destinations throughout the United States for customers traveling via Northwests Detroit and Minneapolis/St. Paul hubs, and Seattle gateway. Heathrow is the busiest international airport in the world, and until earlier this year, was restricted to just two American carriers.

In the increasing globalization of our economy, access to Londons business and financial districts has become a must. The London Heathrow airport became available this year as part of an Open Skies agreement between the U.S. and the European Union — which reduces regulatory constraints for air transportation services in the trans-Atlantic market.

[via Boarding.no]

New Google Street Views

Google Street Views which lets you see panoramic photos shot by camera-equipped vans which were driving around a city. According to the Google Operating System blog, the new cities are Boston, Dallas, Detroit, Fort Worth, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Providence and St. Paul*.

*Google Maps is slightly broken here; I often get just gray areas. I was able to see some cities, but not all.

So really that’s just six cities: Detroit, Boston, Dallas/Fort Worth, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Indianapolis, and Providence.
[via Search Newz]

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Hoboken Catholic Academy Principal Fired

Parents and students of Hoboken Catholic Academy were stunned to learn that school principle, Michael Massone, was fired yesterday by the Newark Archdiocese.

According to a published report, the Archdiocese refused to say why Massone was fired but did admit to passing some information about Massone to the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office.

Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said that his office "got a call from an Archdiocese lawyer about a concern they had, involving the Hoboken Catholic Academy" but would not elaborate further.  "Nobody at this point has been criminally charged," he said. "I don't know where this is going."

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Uptown high-rise to hold charter school. 'Park on Park' garage will close to make way

Uptown high-rise to hold charter school
'Park on Park' garage will close to make way
02/25/2007 Hoboken Reporter
Hoboken's Zoning Board unanimously approved a proposal last week for a 12-story building at 1415 14th St. that will include donated space for one of the city's two charter schools.

In addition to carving out 180 condos, 371 parking spaces, and some retail space, developer Bijou Properties is donating 46,000 square feet in the building for the Elysian Charter School.

The plot of land is currently shared by the Park on Park Garage and an undeveloped dirt lot located on 15th Street between Garden Street and Park Avenue.

That will mean curtains for the 430-car parking garage, in a city that is strapped for parking. Developer Lawrence Bijou said he did not know exactly when the garage will close, but that ground will be broken on the new project within 12 months.

$100M project

The Hoboken-based firm Dean Marchetto Architects has been hired for the $100 million project, which has not yet been named, according to Bijou.

Twenty percent of the condos will be three and four-bedrooms so to provide living space for Hoboken families. Along the base of the building there will be 30,000 square feet of retail space.

After ground is broken on the project, it will take approximately 18 months to complete, according to Bijou.

Bijou is also converting the former Hostess Cupcake Factory on 14th Street and Park Avenue and currently converting the old "Coconut Building" on 14th and Garden streets, which is now called Garden Street Lofts.

The charter school's entrance will be on Garden Street and will open up to a lobby with a staircase and elevator, bringing students to their classrooms located on the second and third floors.

Much support and some opposition

The measure received an overwhelming amount of support from members of the public attending the meeting, many of whose children are enrolled in the Elysian Charter School.

Hoboken has two charter schools, which were founded in the 1990s by parents and meet state mandates in order to get public school funding.

"If it wasn't for Elysian, we couldn't stay in Hoboken," said Grace Leong, a parent of three, last week. Two of her children are enrolled in the school and her third is in a nursery program at All Saints Episcopal Day School. "[Bijou's] decision to donate this area and the board's decision to allow it makes it possible for our children to have their own gym, music room, and community all in one building. It's encouraging to see legislators and developers support local families and education like they did."

Elysian is currently divided between two locations, one at the Rue Building at 301 Garden St. and the other at the former Our Lady of Grace School Building at 422 Willow St.

Although Leong's sentiment was reiterated by several at the Zoning Board meeting, there was some opposition to the project, which required several variances.

Some expressed their concern about schoolchildren crossing the nearby streets, the anticipated increase in traffic caused by new residents, and a greater strain on the already limited parking situation.

In response to the safety issues, both parents and Zoning Board members said that crossing guards would adequately protect children from oncoming traffic, citing the 11th Street crosswalk used by the nearby Wallace Primary School.

Bijou added that there would be a drive-in/drop-off zone for parents to leave their children, as opposed to leaving them on the street.

Both the parking and traffic issues were addressed by the developers who argued, through planning experts, that there would be no significant impact on traffic in the area. They said that many of those who currently use the garage, which has a capacity to fit 430 vehicles and tends to be at 75 percent occupancy, will find other garages located in the area, such as those near the shipyard.

The 'green effect'

In addition to donating space to Elysian Charter, Bijou has also shown consideration for the community by constructing a building that will be the first mixed-use facility in Hoboken, if not the state, to be deemed a LEED Certified Gold-Standard structure for its environmental-friendly design and the sustainable materials being used to construct it.

LEED, which stands for "Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design," is an industry standard used to designate properties that are environmentally safe.

Gold is the highest rating, outside of Platinum, that a structure can receive, which is based on the amount of features a building has that lessens the strain on the surrounding environment.

Some of the features of the proposed building are its "green roof," which will retain water that can be used for landscaping; an interior piping system that filters natural air into each unit without having to open a window, and the overall energy-conserving design that will help tenants save on bills and reduce the impact on the city's infrastructure.

"This is a great way to establish a vibrant neighborhood and build a cohesive, urban environment," said Bijou.

There will also be 20,000 square feet of green space dispersed between three gardens along the rooftops of the complex.

The charter school

Conceived in 1995 by a community group called Mile Square Families, the Elysian Charter School first opened its doors in September of 1997, having been one of New Jersey's original 13 charter schools.

The curriculum of the progressive public school focuses on social responsibility.

It receives most of its funding through the Hoboken Board of Education. However, the school has its own Board of Trustees that handles the curriculum and administration.

The public school currently has 280 students with more than 100 on a waiting list, according to Leong. Students are selected through an annual lottery where names are drawn at random, giving children from every socioeconomic class in the district a chance at attending the school.

The school has, on average, higher test scores than the other public elementary schools in the district, according to Elysian's Director Carol Stock.

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