Progress made on the Cobo expansion front
Governor Jennifer Granholm, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, Wayne
County Executive Robert Ficano, Macomb County Board of Commissioners
Chairman William Crouchman and Oakland County Executive L. Brooks
Patterson met last week to discuss plans for an expansion of Cobo Hall.
Attendees describe the meeting as positive towards moving towards
consensus on funding and governance.
Governor Jennifer Granholm, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, Wayne
County Executive Robert Ficano, Macomb County Board of Commissioners
Chairman William Crouchman and Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson met last week to discuss plans for an expansion of Cobo Hall. Attendees describe the meeting as positive towards moving towards consensus on funding and governance.
Excerpt:
Of Friday’s session, Ficano said:
“I must honestly say it was the most positive meeting I’ve had in the year-and-a-half to two years we’ve been working on this.
“There
is a real sense of getting this done. We have a basic model in this
proposal, now we need to do the fitting and changing to get to
consensus,” Ficano said.
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