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Farms to acquire closed store building at Mack and Moross FARMS — The fate of the shuttered Jo-Ann fabric and craft store at 18850 Mack Ave. is no longer a question mark. In keeping with purchase of other commercial properties over the last couple of decades at the corner of Mack Avenue and Moross Road, Grosse Pointe Farms officials opted to acquire the last of these — the Jo-Ann building — after
the store closed earlier this year when its parent company declared bankruptcy and closed all its stores. The Farms City Council voted unanimously Oct. 13 in favor of buying the building for $2.4 million, which will be paid out in three equal, interest-free installments of $800,000 over the next three fiscal years. City administrators said the first payment will be made at closing, the second will be made on or before the first anniversary of closing, and the third payment will be made on or before the second
anniversary of the closing. Money for this expenditure will come from the city’s capital project fund. “We’ve had an interest in securing that property for a number of years,” City Manager Shane Reeside said. The Jo-Ann parcel — along with the rest of the parcels on the corner — were rezoned from commercial to community service many years ago, as the city anticipated future See BUILDING on page 10A
Longtime Shores volunteer honored BY K. MICHELLE MORAN kmoran@candgnews.com
SHORES — If not for people like Patrick McCarroll, the Grosse Pointes might have been subject to the sounds of aircraft engines in a similar way to the communities around Detroit Metro Airport. Proposed expansion decades ago of Detroit City Airport, now known as Coleman A. Young International Airport, on the east side to include more commercial flights might have become a reality — along with the roar of jet engines as they ascended and descended over nearby communities — had
it not been for the work of people like McCarroll, formerly of Grosse Pointe Shores, who chaired the Detroit City Airport Study Commission. McCarroll and the late Dr. Richard Mertz, also of Grosse Pointe Shores, were among the concerned Grosse Pointers who sounded the alarm and fought airport expansion, which they feared would increase noise and pollution, decrease property values and reduce quality of life in the Pointes and other communities close to the airport. McCarroll recently stepped down from the Shores Planning Commission — where he served as See MCCARROLL on page 11A
From left, Grosse Pointe Shores Mayor Ted Kedzierski recognizes longtime Shores Planning Commission member Patrick McCarroll for his years of service during a Sept. 16 council meeting. Photo by K. Michelle Moran
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