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...together a list of a dozen "top mugging spots" for convention delegates to avoid. Actually, crime in the city has dropped dramatically in the past few years. And a European reporter who assumed the Detroit River was hopelessly polluted by the city's heavy industry looked out over the waterfront in astonishment at fishermen angling for coho salmon...
...limits. The outspoken Young, for example, does not hesitate in public to rib his good friend Henry Ford II. When the former Ford Motor Co. boss complained in a speech that the 73-story Detroit Plaza Hotel, the showpiece of the city's celebrated Renaissance Center complex along the waterfront, might be doing nicely in attracting conventions but was not producing enough "transient business," Young took a microphone to declare: "Hank the Deuce just told us we gotta start hot-sheetin' it at the hotel...
...redevelopment of the waterfront area has been economically successful, although critics differ over its aesthetic appeal. The main cluster of new buildings is the $350 million Renaissance Center, consisting of five glass towers containing office space and topped by the spectacular Detroit Plaza Hotel. The center has helped the city raise its convention revenues from $56 million in 1970 to a projected $115 million this year. More than 90% of the center's office space is rented. Although the complex looks a bit like a mother ship from Star Wars?or perhaps because of the fact?visitors flock...
...Moonies first began worrying the townspeople in 1977, when a church owned company bought a lobster packing plant for $330,000, a 14-room house and a swatch of swampy waterfront land. The church explained that it was simply going into the fishing business, as it had elsewhere, and, as William Sanders, 27, one of the plant's two Moonie managers put it, Gloucester was "our kind of town...
...nearly a decade, residents of grimy Elizabeth, N.J., had been complaining about the fumes emanating from the Chemical Control Corp.'s waterfront facility, where thousands of barrels of chemicals had been illegally stored. For nearly a year, New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection had been working to clean up the mess, and had removed some 10,000 barrels of the most toxic or explosive substances. Despite the department's efforts, though, some critics branded the facility the Three Mile Island of chemical dumps, and others described the remaining 24,000 or so waste-filled barrels...