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County Commissioners Kill Mound Road Option for Jail: So What Next?

October 17, 2014, 7:18 AM

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On Thursday the Wayne County Commission put the kibosh on talk of moving the county jail from downtown to the former Mound Road Correctional Facility, some nine miles away.

So what next?

Chad Halcom of Crain's Detroit Business writes that the 15-member board voted 12-3 to pass a resolution to take two jail relocation proposals off the table and consider only completing the half-built jail development along Gratiot Avenue in downtown Detroit or renovate existing jail facilities.

Renovating the existing facility may be prohibitive because one of the buildings is 90 years old, Crain's reports. 

Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert is dying to buy and develop the land where the half-built jail is, and has been making a stink about the county resuming construction of the jail project there.

He thinks it would be bad for the city to put a jail there instead of commercial and retail development.


Read more:  Crain's Detroit Business


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