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he April 22 candidate filing deadline for those seeking a number of local and state offices has now officially passed and those competing either in the August party primary or, in some cases where there is no primary opposition, the November general election are noted in a news story in the Municipal section of this issue of Downtown.

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Our past approach to candidate races is to either interview in person or by questionnaire all candidates in what we define as local election contests. In the case of the Birmingham-Bloomfield area, our definition of local election contests will include the races for the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as Michigan House and Senate races, along with contests for Oakland County Commissioner and 48th District Court.

As for the August party primary contests, we will be providing information in the race for U.S. House in the 11th District, which is supposed to be a spirited contest on the Republican side that has already generated national attention, and four Democrats have filed to compete in the August contest. We will also provide coverage of the primary race in the GOP for the Michigan Senate 13th District to replace outgoing Republican John Pappageorge, who has been term-limited.

There is no August primary contest in the U.S. 9th Congressional District which includes Bloomfield Township; the Michigan House 40th District, now held by Republican Mike McCready; nor at the county commission level for either the 12th or 13th District.

Likewise, in the 48th District Court, both incumbent judge Kimberly Small and challenger Kevin Kevelighan automatically advance to the November ballot.

Aside from interviews or answers to questionnaires, we will also be offering our recommendations to voters on who we feel is most qualified to either represent their political party and ultimately hold the office.

Our editorial endorsements are just one voice in the community discussion of who would make the most sense if elected to one of the positions on the ballot. Although publications decades ago lost the sense of strong sway or influence over voters, we still are an important voice given the fact that we spend considerable time

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In terms of how we will present candidates’ views for our followers, for the 2014 elections we will be following our past practice of posting candidate responses to our questions on our website at downtownpublications.com. We made the decision years ago to move to a website-based presentation of candidates in large part due to the volume of information that election coverage generates, as you can imagine when you consider primary races like the Michigan Senate contest in the 13th District, in which six candidates have filed for the August primary ballot.

We also knew years ago when we made this decision that the vast majority of local residents had computer and website access in their home environment. If not, the local libraries all offer internet access as well as computers, Further, posting candidates’ responses to our questions on our website allows us to get the information out to the general public much sooner than if we waited for our monthly newsmagazine to go to press. This is a consideration when one takes into account the growing number of residents who vote by absentee ballots, which are generally sent out about a month ahead of an election.

We have also found that many of our readers are accustomed to going to our website for additional news stories that we post each week, rather than waiting until the printed edition just prior to the start of the month.

The website for Downtown gets considerable traffic on a monthly basis, anywhere between 35,000-38,000 visitors on an average month and in heavy months, like this past March, over 51,000 visitors to downtownpublications.com.

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The project took three years to develop, was well researched, thorough and open, and employed a nationally respected library and historic restoration architectural firm.

It deserves a yes vote on May 6.

Space limits permit me to address only a few issues raised in that editorial: • The Joint Library Building Committee (JLBC) was appropriate for this task. The JLBC included elected members of the city commission and library board, a member of the planning board and non-voting city and library staff members—a very knowledgeable team. City commissioners serving on sub-committees or ad hoc committees is common in municipalities and has been used by the city numerous times in the past.

• Research conducted by the library was sound. The library staff, assisted by professionals, was capable of conducting the research. The survey had good results from Birmingham households and responses from demographic groups compare well with 2010 U.S. census results. The survey was supplemented by focus groups, benchmarking of peer libraries and third party studies on accessibility and Library of the Future.

• The new library is designed as a “Library of the Future”. A library of the future adapts to changes in technology, information formats and generational expectations. The proposed plan has this ability.

• City needs are being balanced. At the 2014 city long-range planning meeting, the city commission concluded that future pensions, roads and infrastructure needs were reasonably well funded, and investment in senior services could be funded even with the library bond.

With the bond, the city’s debt/taxable value ratio in 2015 would be 2.54 percent, down from 4.03 percent in 2003—more than adequate for future capital needs.

• Starting over would be a huge waste of resources. Much of the work by the JLBC would have to be duplicated requiring another downtownpublications.com

committee starting over—a delay of at least two years. Construction costs and municipal bond rates would rise, library maintenance problems would worsen, and Birmingham would fall farther behind neighboring libraries. It’s very possible that the city would be reluctant to invest more time and money, and significant library improvements would be deferred indefinitely.

The merits of the plan being voted on May 6th are numerous: improved access for all citizens, more space for youth literacy programs, introduction of group study rooms, adaptability for the future and a full restoration of the 1927 building. While no plan will please everyone 100 percent, the proposed plan does an outstanding job of addressing key needs. A strong library is an integral part of a vibrant city where people want to live. It goes hand in hand with literacy, lifelong learning and quality of life – serving all ages from our youth to our seniors.

Jim Suhay, Baldwin Library Board Trustee

Thoughts from Beverly Hills There have been questions about the “contract communities” not being asked to help pay for the debt that will occur with the Baldwin Library building plan. It would be spiteful to vote “no” for this reason.

A contract is just that, and it should not be breached. When the Beverly Hills contract comes up for negotiations at the end of its term, it may result in a tax increase. In 2010, Beverly Hills supported and passed a charter amendment that resulted in keeping our contract with the Baldwin Library. I was on the Save Our Services committee. We all worked for two years to keep our library service. I will work again to pass the library contract and I know there are others that will be walking the neighborhoods with me. We can do this again.

A state of the art library is one of the attributes of a community that attracts young buyers. As a senior, I think about this because I might sell sooner than later. It applies to Beverly Hills, but even more to Birmingham.

I have been a member of the board of directors of the Friends of the Baldwin Library for the past six years, two of which I was president. I have witnessed the dedication and work that has been going on for the past three years by the elected library board of trustees, the library director

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and associate director and the Joint Library Building Committee. The work has been thorough, detailed and transparent. There were surveys, forums, meetings, tours and publicity to keep the community fully informed. In my opinion, no stone was left unturned with respect to the building plan. It is not a band-aid plan. The library will be a state of the art library for the present and the future and it will honor its heritage.

Library director Doug Koschik has been giving informational library tours for the past several months.

These tours are from attic to basement, including staff work areas.

The building plan is not just for a beautiful building façade and interior improvements and additions. The tours show all that is needed for the building to function properly and be ADA compliant. There are still tours before the vote on May 6th. The schedule is on the website baldwinlib.org.

And vote yes on May 6th.

Candee Repa, Beverly Hills

Vote YES on library project I am a Birmingham senior citizen and I am voting “yes” on Baldwin Library’s restoration and expansion.

One of the objectives of the project is to make the library fully ADA compliant. Presently the library is not friendly to persons with mobility issues or even parents with strollers.

A key feature of the new structure will be a street level entrance with (more and better) elevators to access all floors. The present intimidating steps and steep narrow ramp will be eliminated. Aisles throughout the library will be widened and lighting greatly improved.

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I do not agree that we must choose between a better library and a new senior center. We need, and can have, both. The senior center project is in its early stages and at least a few years away. The economy is improving and home values are rising again. The city has the best credit rating possible and negligible debt.

When the city commission met for the annual long-range planning meeting in January, it was concluded that Birmingham can support both a future senior center and a restored library.

Please vote “yes” on May 6.

Pamela DeWeese, Birmingham

Tax dollars out the window I am presenting numbers which no one wishes to talk about to show how Birmingham city officials are throwing our tax dollars out the window.

1.The 1981 addition to the Baldwin Library was only paid off 10 years ago, an expense of $2,750,000.

2. The first addition in 1965 cost $190,000.

3. One interior renovation was $300,000. Another in the basement with a fancy kitchen and an elaborate refrigerator to keep pop cold was $1,000,000.

4. Quinn Evans architects received $79,000 to draw beautiful pictures of a conceptual design that is flawed in many ways. Example: There are two elevators and stairs inside the building, but no ramps. In case of fire, parents with their big strollers will have to drag them with one hand down the stairs, while holding on to the toddler and babies with the other hand.

5. Not putting the library issue on the November ballot is wasting another $15,000 of our tax dollars.

Within the proposal to tear down $4,334,000 of invested tax dollars and replace it with a $21,500,000 building the new architect will be paid $1,700,000 just to draw up new plans. The pictures floating around are not what the actual construction will be. This building of such extravagant expenditure does not cover the additional expense of maintenance, personnel, etc.

The city has neglected upkeep of the library. It is time that we renovate what we have, rather than tearing down what was paid for with our hard earned tax dollars.

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The Fanning Howey plan recommended by the library board in 2012 achieves ADA compliance, increases the youth area by 33 percent, adds study rooms, and much more as is needed for $2,900,000, one-seventh of what is being asked now. Read the factual information of the Birmingham Citizens for Responsible Spending Group and compare it with the emotional, slanted jargon of the Birmingham Strong Group and I am sure that you will agree with the Responsible Spending Group. My facts/numbers are based on the library director’s information when I was given a tour of the library from the basement to attic.

Remember, an elaborate fancy building does not guarantee quality service. Southfield’s elaborate, new library is in the red. They have cut back on hours, service, etc. Do we want Birmingham to follow these steps?

Tina Bongartz, Birmingham

Baldwin far too expensive The proposal to borrow funds to renovate the library will be voted on in a special election on May 6th.

The cost of the renovations is shown as $21.5 million. The cost of interest on the bond isn’t shown, although it’s no less a cost of the proposal. The interest cost will be about $14 million, so the total cost of the proposal that taxpayers are asked to pay will be about $35.5 million.

This comes to some $2,500, on average, for each Birmingham household until the bond is fully repaid in 20 years time. Voters need to think about that as they view the artist’s drawings of the proposed renovations displayed in the library.

We consider that the planned improvements are more nice-to-have than essential and are far too expensive. We would be glad to support much more modest proposals that would respect the average taxpayers’ natural desire for financial balance.

Calling a special election in May just adds to the cost, which could have been avoided if the proposal were delayed until November, when it would have had a free ride.

Anne and Peter Bray, Birmingham

Baldwin Library questions There are questions worth asking about the May 6th election to raise taxes for a rebuild of the Baldwin Library. downtownpublications.com

How did we get from a $2.9 million, library board recommended plan to renovate and expand the library to the $21.5 plan on the ballot? In 2012 when the library director presented the board’s $2.9 million recommendation to the city commission he called it “comprehensive.” Now, project backers refer to it as “cosmetic” and a “band aid.”

How did we get from spending $2.9 million for achieving ADA compliance, adding five study rooms, increasing youth space by 33 percent, improving the layout, new carpeting, furniture, etc. to a rebuild at 7 times the cost with only five added study rooms (the same amount), trumping other city priorities such as a new senior center, badly needed road repairs or downtown parking?

Why do supporters try to make non-supporters feel guilty, painting them as uncaring when we already pay some of the highest school millage rates in Michigan and a much less costly plan achieves the same goal?

How does this plan improve education as its backers claim?

If voters approve this costly plan in the name of education, what happens the next time schools ask voters for more money?

Why do we need to tear down the 1981 addition which was only paid off a little more than a decade ago?

Why did the pro Facebook page write that every residence in Birmingham was surveyed? If so, only 391 responses were received.

Why did the head of the pro organizing committee tell the press that no significant upgrades to the library have been made since “before the Internet,” ignoring the 2002 Grand Hall renovation and more recent lower level renovations costing close to $1 million?

Why don’t architects, other than the one who came up with the proposal, support it?

Why did the Library Board propose a plan for more study rooms and youth space based on a user population of 35,000 when only 20,000 Birmingham residents will pay for it, with the 15,000 wealthier Beverly Hills, Bingham Farms, and Bloomfield Hills residents getting a free ride?

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Baldwin Public Library is a valuable community asset, and specific improvements — expanded youth space, more study rooms, and changes for users with disabilities — would make it an even better resource. But at what cost?

It’s time for a fact check!

Birmingham Strong claims we need this $21.5 million plan because every household was surveyed. Fact: Only 391 voters responded, and the survey was conducted before the current proposal even existed and the high cost was known.

Birmingham Strong claims spending less would be like “putting band-aids” on the problems. Fact: In January 2012, library director Doug Koschik called a $2.9 million plan, with expanded youth space, more study rooms, and ADA compliance, a “comprehensive renovation and repurposing of [the] existing footprint.” The 2014 plan is like tearing down your house and then rebuilding it just to fix a leaky roof.

Birmingham Strong claims the $21.5 million plan will create a “library for the future.” Fact: Nationally known library architect Aaron Cohen says demolishing and rebuilding most of the library is “unnecessary, a waste of taxpayer money, and has some serious usability limitations.” When concerned citizens offered to fund a trip to Miami to discuss his evaluation, city officials refused — and would not even speak with him by phone. Other architects in the area also think this plan is a mistake.

Birmingham Strong says that voters have had ample time to weigh the issue and it’s time to vote. Fact: Single-issue spring elections traditionally have low voter turnouts, favoring small groups with special interests. One city commissioner, a bond-issue supporter, says, “The assumption that getting more votes gets a better election in my mind is open to some interpretation.”

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senior center initiative could be ready and the battle [to pass the library bond] would be that much more difficult.” He knows there’s a limit to the bond issues voters will support.

Approving this high-cost library plan threatens other priorities like building a senior center, fixing deteriorating roads and expanding downtown parking.

Don’t be strong-armed into paying $21.5 million for an unnecessary library rebuild. Let’s show fiscal responsibility. Vote NO on Tuesday, May 6. Ask for a more responsible plan.

Patricia Stoltz, Birmingham

What is a NO vote Let’s be clear, a “no” vote on May 6 is not a vote against investing in the future of Baldwin Library.

It is not a vote against expanding youth services. And, it’s not a vote about refusing to advance the tech capabilities of our library.

It is a vote to support responsible thinking and the reasonable expenditure of citizen’s tax dollars.

Spending $21.5M on a new library at a time when we are facing road and sewer infrastructure improvements, major parking expansion requirements and the need for a possible senior center is simply not representative of prudent city planning or spending.

Keep in mind, the Groves Conference Center was recently shut down and renovated to house the Birmingham Board of Education. The reason: a lack of demand for their state-of-the-art meeting rooms, the same type of rooms this library project has planned as it’s central theme.

Ask yourself this question, if Baldwin Library is in such a state of non-function that it needs a total $21.5M renovation, why are our neighboring communities so happy and willing to pay us to use it?

Having said that, I think we can all agree that an improvement project for Baldwin Library is something we need to address. But, building a $21.5 monument to the library board is simply not a responsible or acceptable approach. Let’s regroup and develop a plan that addresses the core issues, satisfies existing needs and makes realistic economic sense.

A “no” vote on May 6 is the responsible thing to do.

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Atlas Township | $4,990,000 | MagniďŹ cent custom lakefront residence. Live the lake lifestyle & enjoy the best breathtaking sunset views of 238 acre all-sports Lake Shinanguag. Exquisite craftsmanship & world class amenities & appointments throughout. Spacious master suite & guest suites, gourmet kitchen, ballroom, billiards room, movie theater, banquet room, indoor basketball, elevator. Approximately 500 foot lake frontage.

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Birmingham | $2,599,000 2013 Kojaian renovation with every imaginable amenity. Charm/details of the original estate.

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Bloomfield Township | $499,900 Stunning court-yard entry with paver details.

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Birmingham | $515,000 Warm, relaxing, comfortable home rests in a treed setting & is close to downtown.

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Beverly Hills | $291,900 Come take at look, you won’t be disappointed. 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath quad level.

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Salem Township | $2,500,000 The most incredible equestrian compound in S.E. Michigan, situated on 49.07 acres.

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Salem Township | $1,000,000 Stunning custom home on 2.82 wooded acres on private cul-de-sac! Travertine floors.

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Birmingham | $945,000 Charming 1930’s Connecticut Colonial situated on a beautifully landscaped .5 acre lot in one of Birmingham’s finest areas.

Presented by: Robert Dundon T: 248-733-5901 | rdundon@cbwm.com

Beverly Hills | $695,000 Spectacular and spacious custom Cape Cod home. Completed renovation from top-to-bottom with premium materials and finishes.

Presented by: Anne Hammond T: 248-731-4579 | ahammond@cbwm.com

Salem Township | $724,000 Stunning luxury living with picturesque views!

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Bloomfield Hills | $489,900 Great location along the Woodward corridor.

Spacious condo with a contemporary flair.

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Rochester Hills | $1,250,000 Breathtaking! Endless amenities, every element is well thought out and meticulously designed.

Presented by: Jeffery Alasina T: 248-639-4833 | jalasina@cbwm.com

Bloomfield Township | 399,900 Charming & on private .61 acre lot deep in Foxcroft. Living room/dining room with fireplace.

Presented by: Robert Dundon T: 248-733-5901 | rdundon@cbwm.com

Orchard Lake | $529,900 One of the most prestigious lakes in Oakland County! Bring your boat and beach toys!

Presented by: Kori Adams T: 248-639-4938 | kadams@cbwm.com

Oakland Township | $489,000 Motivated Seller!! Don’t miss this beautifully landscaped spacious home with upgrades galore.

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Birmingham | $1,499,000 Luxurious in-town Birmingham Condominium home. Quality built by Kojaian homes, this home has 2 bedrooms on the 2nd floor.

Presented by: Gwen Schultz T: 248-731-5144 | gschultz@cbwm.com

Franklin | $449,000 Classic 2844 sqft center entrance Colonial on 1.24 acre lot near Franklin Hills Country Club.

Presented by: Jack Bertoia T: 248-365-7118 | jbertoia@cbwm.com

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Birmingham | $665,000 Built 2004, looks like new. Immaculate & well decorated It has good-sized rooms: living, dining, & family rooms directly connected to open kitchen.

Presented by: Margie Duncan T: 248-565-3563 | mduncan@cbwm.com

Bloomfield Village | $649,000 Elegant custom Colonial with dramatic 2-story formal dining room on a beautiful treed lot.

Presented by: Rebecca Meisner T: 248-639-4814 | rmeisner@cbwm.com

Birmingham | $575,000 Tranquil idyllic setting on peaceful tree-lined with mature trees, bushes & perennial plantings.

Presented by: James Riley T: 248-213-7504 | jriley@cbwm.com

Bloomfield Township | $385,000 Sought after Cedarglen model features a 1st floor den, office or bedroom. Well cared for gem.

Presented by: Robert Holcomb T: 248-213-7869 | rholcomb@cbwm.com

Birmingham | $294,500 Move right in to this wonderful Colonial perfectly located in popular Birmingham neighborhood!

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Bloomfield Township | $479,000 Beautiful 4 bedroom 2.5 bath traditional Colonial with 3-car garage. Formal Living & dining rooms.

Presented by: Wendi Miller T: 248-639-7946 | wmiller@cbwm.com

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Orchard Lake | $1,200,000 | THE VALUE IS IN THE LAND. Wonderful 1.58 acre property on Orchard Lake is elevated and has views of Cass Lake, too. Wooded and sloped, the property would accommodate a large home with a walk-out lower level. The home that is on the property could be renovated or replaced. This property is an opportunity to have 152 feet on a beautiful lake, and 1.58 acres to build your dream home.

Presented by: Margie Duncan T: 248-565-3563 | mduncan@cbwm.com

Grosse Pointe | $1,425,000 | Beautiful English tudor. Completely restored in the last several years, newer state-of-the-art kitchen with granite counters, Sub-Zero refrigerator, updated baths, newer copper plumbing, furnaces, air conditioner and restored hardwood floors. 3-car garage with carriage house. Spacious 200x175 lot. Step down 26x28 living room with natural fireplace. Den library with natural fireplace. Third level has 2 bedrooms with bath.

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Birmingham | $1,850,000 | Custom built by Brandywine, this exquisite home, offers quality & amenities beyond compare. This house is definitely within walking distance to downtown Birmingham. Hardwood flrs & beautiful mill work adorn every room. Designer kitchen opens to great room for comfortable living. Each bedroom is a suite. Granite in kit, baths, & 2nd floor laundry room. This stunning home is like new and truly turn key!!

Presented by: Barbara Draplin T: 248-639-7976 | bdraplin@cbwm.com

Bloomfield Hills | $1,899,000 | Uncompromising in quality and amenities, this magnificent residence is situated on almost an acre of lovely landscaped private grounds. Foyer with Brazilian walnut floor open to 2-story living room with limestone fireplace & expansive windows. Library with judges paneling & coffered ceiling. Incredible kitcehn with large island & heated floor. First floor master w/fireplace & luxurious bath. 17x10 solarium.

Presented by: Robert Dundon T: 248-733-5901 | rdundon@cbwm.com

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Bloomfield Village | $725,000 Handsome Georgian Colonial. Great floor plan with large rooms and wonderful flow for entertaining. Granite kitchen with large serving area.

Presented by: Rosalee Hill T: 248-639-4813 | rhill@cbwm.com

Webster Township | $945,000 Custom Executive Home on 3+ acres of wooded wonderland. Brazilian cherry flooring.

Presented by: Pamela Bartush T: 248-213-7864 | pbartush@cbwm.com

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Novi | $1,047,500 Move right into this impressive brand new Maybury Park Estates home that boasts brick & limestone curb appeal, flexible floor plan. and more!

Presented by: Tracy Wick T: 248-513-8439 | twick@cbwm.com

Birmingham | $364,900 Newly remodeled walk to town beauty! Open floor plan. Granite kitchen with stainless accents.

Presented by: Janet Burger T: 248-792-8848 | jburger@cbwm.com

Bloomfield Township | $355,000 Sharp, meticulously cared for home in popular Hickory Heights. Recent updates throughout!

Presented by: Erna Whitmire T: 248-639-7949 | ewhitmire@cbwm.com

Green Oak Township | $1,198,000 110’ of lakefront in spectacular two-story home with gorgeous views of all sports Hidden Lake.

Presented by: John Goodman T: 248-639-4816 | jgoodman@cbwm.com

Bloomfield Township | $100,000 Spacious and gracious...sought after Four Seasons condo with large master bedroom.

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Beverly Hills | $429,000 Classy ranch in the heart of West Beverly Hills.

Large premium lot, .49 acres, paver patios.

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Orchard Lake | $1,250,000 | Panoramic views of Cass Lake! Sprawling ranch features beautifully updated kitchen, hardwood floors, 1st floor master bedroom, family room with fireplace and finished lower level walk-out. Energy efficient lighting and California closets through-out. Heated garage and generator. Newer updates include pool (‘12), multi-level deck (‘13), landscaping (‘12). Electronic boat lift for boat dock included.

Presented by: Teri Spiro T: 248-639-7967 | tspiro@cbwm.com

Hamburg Township | $1,550,000 | Totally custom ranch with 693’ of frontage on the point! Turn key with all furniture, docks, pontoon and jet skis. Four-car and two-car heated garages. Volume ceilings throughout. Totally renovated 2012/new kitchen with 42” solid cherry cabinets, Wolf & Sub-Zero refrigerator, granite throughout. $300K in landscaping, BMW speakers throughout, basketball court, hot tub, fire pit. Lookout loft with spiral staircase.

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Bloomfield Township | $625,000 Heart of The Village opportunity! Lovely family home on coveted Waddington St. near Quarton Elementary. Tons of potential!

Presented by: Mark Marangon T: 248-639-4839 | mmarangon@cbwm.com

Birmingham | $499,900 Opportunity in the heart of Poppleton Park. Traditional, center entrance home is move-in ready yet offers the possibility for expansion and renovation.

Presented by: Jennifer Zachary T: 248-639-4832 | jzachary@cbwm.com

Bloomfield Township | $295,000 In desired Hickory Groves Hills. 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bath. Slate foyer. Living room with bay window.

Presented by: Erna Whitmire T: 248-639-7949 | ewhitmire@cbwm.com

Birmingham | $420,000 Wonderful opportunity to be within walking distance to downtown Birmingham.

Presented by: Erin O’Neill T: 248-639-4857 | eoneill@cbwm.com

Oakland Township | $624,990 Welcome home to the prestigious address of Oakland Township and this beautiful home!

Presented by: Leslie Doran T: 248-365-7100 | ldoran@cbwm.com

Bloomfield Township | $135,000 Move right in! Desirable Foxcroft condo with great locale. Updated kitchen with all appliances.

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Troy | $619,900 Beautifully maintained home in the desirable Oak River East subdivision. Gourmet kitchen.

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Royal Oak | $295,000 Incredible space and curb appeal to match this 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath home.

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Farmington Hills | $3,000,000 | A masterpiece on 5 acres nestled in woods frontage to Franklin Hills Country Club! In-law quarters, 1/2 court indoor basketball court, 4-car & 2-car garage with lifts, 40x20 in ground pool with cabana, all bedrooms are suites, 1,000 sq.ft. master suite with 10’ceilings, private balcony, Jacuzzi & shower with Euro heads, fireplace with sitting area. Elevator, finished lower level walkout with bedroom suite, 2 baths, more.

Presented by: John Goodman T: 248-639-4816 | jgoodman@cbwm.com

Birmingham | $2,900,000 | This Wallace Frost masterpiece has been exquisitely renovated & enhanced by it’s 3rd owner. Sits on an acre overlooking the scenic Rouge River, yet a short walk to town. Stunning gourmet kitchen with tumbled limestone back splash, exotic granite counter tops, 9ft center island, Sub-Zero refrigerator, Wolf stove, wine refrigerator. Open floor plan & spectacular views to striking pool & outdoor living spaces. A true oasis.

Presented by: Jennifer Zachary T: 248-639-4832 | jzachary@cbwm.com

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Novi | $1,095,000 | Here it is! Popular and exclusive Tuscany Reserve! This spectacular home features a master suite on the first floor. Dramatic great room as well as a seperate family room. This is an exciting floor plan with all the bells and whistles one would expect in this caliber of home.

Four-car garage, five total bedrooms with two Jack and Jill baths upstairs. Walk-out basement too!

Presented by: Jim Willis T: 248-567-6940 | jwillis@cbwm.com

Northville | $1,085,000 | Executive retreat! Absolutely gorgeous home on Parkshore Lake (best lake in sub.) with beach & dock acceptable.

Incredible quality workmanship, extensive use of marble, limestone, Brazilian cherry floors & granite. Two-way fireplace from great room to hearth room, 42” cream cabinets with chocolate glaze, stainless steel appliances, granite counters. Awesome study with judges paneling.

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Bloomfield Township | $1,850,000 | This stunning, contemporary home on Wabeek Lake masterfully designed by DesRosier is truly something out of Architectural Digest. Floor to ceiling windows & walls of glass opens this home to the surrounding landscape, bringing in breathtaking, panoramic views of Wabeek Lake. Upon entering, you are welcomed by a three-story atrium, lush with huge live trees & plants, into an awesome open floor plan.

Presented by: Barbara Draplin T: 248-639-7976 | bdraplin@cbwm.com

Novi | $1,340,000 | As you walk into this magnificent estate, you will realize it is an actual piece of art! This is a grand entertainers dream in the spectacular “Bellagio” estates. This open and airy home features an expansive cherry bar in the daylight lower level, iconic 400+ wine cellar, and workout/ theatre room. Elegant great room with fresco ceilings. Formal dining room. Luxurious master suite with fireplace and spa-like master bathroom.

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Farmington Hills | $2,850,000 | Amazing custom home with grand entry! Spectacular 2 story great room,1st floor master w/marble & granite glamour bath, 2 additional master suites, mahogany 8 foot solid doors, awesome 2 story study w/honduras mahogany judges paneling & art studio above, formal dining room w/hand painted silk wallcovering, very open floorplan, private 2.36 acres. 5 car heated garage. Elevator.

Presented by: John Goodman T: 248-639-4816 | jgoodman@cbwm.com

Salem Township | $1,100,000 | Amazing architecture on this Salem Cape Cod with Northville mailing. Situated off the road with pond & wooded privacy. On 10 acres, very open floor plan with 2 story family room from lower level with view from above. 5 full bedrooms including in-law quarters, 5 full & 4 half baths. First floor master suite, extensive triple crown molding throughout, marble, hardwood flooring. Spacious gourmet kitchen with Viking appliances.

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While Nick’s photo isn’t as prevalent on the society pages as his father and stepmother’s, that may not be for long. It’s not just that philanthropic good work runs in his blood – it’s that he’s found his passion via his involvement with the cancer institute.

“I think it’s a privilege to be there with people at their time of need,” he said, of his work as Senior Vice President of Institutional Relations for the Karmanos Cancer Institute.

But the Bloomfield Township resident did not initially become connected with the organization bearing his name seeking a career foothold. His involvement began with a phone call 15 years ago from the institute’s executive director, inviting him to become involved as a volunteer with the Partners, a group of young, hands-on volunteers working with the organization.

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“I did, and I loved it,” Nick said. “I loved being involved. It’s a very empowering feeling.”

He took a breath and continued, “I was there with my mom when she was sick (with breast cancer), but there was nothing I could do, and she died (at age 46, in 1989). This is a way I can give back.”

From volunteering with Partners, “it became an evolution to an entry level job (and then) to a senior executive,” Nick said. “I never planned this. Volunteering led to a whole other opportunity to make a living and make a difference.” he beauty of volunteering is exactly that empowering feeling of giving. It’s one that generations of affluent and wealthy patrons have enjoyed, and cultural, civic, and community organizations have prospered from, allowing them to thrive, develop and grow.

Yet, those same institutions are now preparing for an eventual baton passing, as seniors and the baby boomer generation, which for the last several decades have not only sustained individual giving to museums, hospitals, medical research, educational institutions, and other cultural and civic organizations, but have also provided their board leadership, are beginning to retire and move on from that leadership. The question facing many organizations is whether or not the children of boomers and others of the Generation X and the Millennial generation will feel motivated, interested and compelled to follow in those generous footsteps.

Interest and engagement are two words used frequently by civic organizations as they refer to increased efforts to captivate and hold the fractured attention of those in their 20s, 30s, and 40s.

“Like so many of us, that is at the top of our agenda as our older audience declines,” said David DiChiera, founder and artistic director of Michigan Opera Theater. “We must bring the younger audience forward and engage and preserve the art form. That is vital.”

Greg Wittkopf, director of the Cranbrook Art Museum, agrees with DiChiera. “I’ve been at Cranbrook for 28 years. Originally, I was a curator, in my late 30s, and I was developing a group of friends my age or younger, and we were looking to get involved. I believe you’re much more likely to engage someone through a social event than a lecture. They then become more interested in other programming and come more frequently, and then they become comfortable with your core programming. If you do it right, these people will stay with you throughout their lives. They’ll identify, outside of their families and careers, with the institution.”

A recent New York Times article points out that while charitable giving in the United States has remained stable for the last 40 years, there is reason for non-profits around the country to be concerned. Those in the baby boomer generation control 70 percent of the nation’s disposable income. Millennials do not have as much cash on hand, according to data compiled by the American Alliance of Museums. Yet. Generational change occurs, with new people taking place of the old, whether an institution is ready for it or not. The key for organizations is preparation.

Theirs – and their forthcoming donors.

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generation, not seeking to resume build or because it’s seen as “the right organization” to be on the board of, but because they are passionate for the cause, or because it speaks to them.

According to the 2011 Millennial Donors Report, two-thirds of Millennials want specific information about how their dollars will “make a difference”. As one art curator in her late 20s said, many of her friends are seeking to make a difference with clean water and other environmental and humanitarian concerns, helping to eradicate diseases in Africa, or other hands-on causes. Which can pose problems for museums and other arts-related institutions which depend upon individual donations to support everyday operations, much less to build endowments. As philosopher Peter Singer wrote in the New York Times last year, noting that some argue that arts institutions are less deserving of charitable giving than social and health causes, “a donation to prevent a trachoma offers at least 10 times the value of giving to the museum.”

Before all arts supporters throw down this article and have an instant coronary, recognize that arts institutions, like other cultural institutions, understand the challenges facing them. And they have picked up the mantle and are charging into battle.

The Detroit Institute of Arts was one of the first cultural institutions to develop a young development group, DIA Executive Vice President AnnMarie Erickson noted, with the Founders Junior Council in 1965, “to recognize the need to groom young people for leadership roles. Today it’s as energetic as ever.”

The Founders Junior Council is an auxiliary of the DIA whose job has included pledging a half million dollars to the art museum’s endowment campaign, as well as doing various enrichment campaigns, Erickson said. It’s one of several auxiliary groups the art institute has. “With an age limit of 40, as they graduate (from the council) we work to continue to engage them.

Some have graduated to board committees and other auxiliary committees. We really hope the members will stay involved. We keep an eye on them.”

The Founders Junior Council are an active group, known for the ever popular fundraiser Fash Bash event, and a revitalized Cirque-Carnevale di Venezia, chaired in February 2014 by council member Elanah Nachman Hunger of Sylvan Lake.

“In the past it (Cirque) wasn’t making money. I said that’s ridiculous. I knew there was a market for something fun and unique,” Hunger said. “We had to market it and make it exciting. We basically sold it out – we had a capacity of 700, and we sold 650 tickets.”

Besides revitalizing a stagnant event, she believes the Founders Council is a draw to her contemporaries. The Founders Council, and the DIA, is an organization they want to be a part of.

“It’s easier to draw people (with the Founders Council) because it has a name people want to have on their resume,” Hunger noted. “We can be choosier (of who we pick for our council). We have people who are go-getters. There are minimum donations for involvement. The Founders Council encourages people to chair events, and to get their friends and other people to go to them.”

In 2013, the Founders Junior Council was able to pledge $500,000 to the new DIA Endowment

Campaign, funded primarily through their annual fundraisers.

An added benefit – “The Founders Council gets the best group of people,” she said. “You hang out, you become friends. We’ve (she and her husband Rick) met some really amazing people.”

Hunger, whose passion for philanthropy and volunteering is palpable, said that passion was learned from her parents, Allan and Joy Nachman of Bloomfield Township, who are also active philanthropists. “When you’re raised like that, it (the passion) is already there,” Hunger said of her commitment to the DIA, where she is already a board member; on the allocation committee of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit; as well as having helped create the Joy Project for Jewish Family Services, an initiative to honor loved women in someone’s life by supporting women in need.

Hunger does note that her volunteerism is different from her parents’, and reflects her interests and activities, rather than theirs.

Jason Geisz of Birmingham, a member of the Partners Board of the Karmanos Institute, said that while “my parents instilled in me to give back, care about others, and work hard, my parents had zero involvement with Karmanos.”

He said that when he graduated college, “I looked for a way to give back and get involved. I want to change society and have an impact. I had to figure out how I looked at things that impacted me. In third grade, I lost a friend to leukemia, and that was eye opening.”

That reflects a trend among Gen X and Millennial volunteers – they want to participate in institutions reflecting their interests, their passions, and want to find personal satisfaction through their involvement.

“Young people today do not just to give money, they don’t want to see their name on a building or a board roster. They want to see the impact their time or money will make,” Sue Murphy, director of external affairs for Detroit County Day School, said. “They are very mindful of the impact they can make.” urphy notes that as a school, like many other schools, whether an independent school, parochial school, or university, they have a leg up in activating engagement among young alumni.

“We’re cultivating the love for their school,” she acknowledged. The school seeks to engage their younger alumni through social engagements, as class agents, as presenters on their annual career day, and provides opportunities for them to form a mentor relationship between themselves and current students.

While the ultimate goal is to cultivate some younger alums for a position on the coveted board of trustees, “it is quite a challenge with younger people, because first they’re in undergraduate (school), then in grad school, then starting a family, career. They may have student loans. They have a lot of time and financial demands, so you know that when they give of their time or their philanthropy, that is an organization they are dedicated to,” Murphy said.

And down the line, “the challenge is that they are so satisfied with their engagement that they become passionate about it and become longtime supporters, either through small longtime gifts, consistently year in and year out, or those who

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Nick Gorga, a Birmingham attorney, totally agrees. Gorga is on the board of trustees of the Detroit Historical Society, and created Hatch Detroit, a non-profit which funds and supports small retail stores in Detroit. Hatch now has more than 12 alumni businesses in Detroit neighborhoods.

The Detroit Historical Museum has created an affinity group, called Detroit 313 for young professionals, 35 and under, Bob Sadler, public relations director, said. “It’s evolving. There’s some programming and some social events, and some bring a friend to an event.” orga began his legal career in Chicago, returning to Detroit a few years ago to work at the Honigman firm in downtown Detroit. His philanthropic career, he said, is driven “by the ability, as a younger person, to put a first-person handprint on the city of Detroit.

When I was in Chicago, I was involved in a number of things, and I always felt I was forced to wait my turn. The charitable organizations in Detroit encourage those willing to put in the hard work and effort to do things that are impactful.

The great thing about Detroit right now is that the vast number of people seem to be rowing in the same direction.”

The revitalization of Detroit in light of the ongoing municipal bankruptcy can be attributed to younger generation visionaries like Gorga, who are helping to drive it forward. DiChiera of the Michigan Opera Theater recognizes their contributions and excitement. “There are many thousands of people moving into the area, right next to the Opera House up to the New Center (area). They love the energy of the city,” he said.

“We’re doing things in the community, like having drinks in our cafe, to show how comfortable it is and breaking down the stuffiness and formality.”

“For myself, and others like me, it’s a complete blurring of the lines between civic engagement, work, and philanthropic work,” Gorga said. “It’s not just charity, it’s a hobby, it’s a passion, it’s a job. It’s a very unique factor – it’s a way of life.

And you’re creating it all in real time.”

Other cultural institutions are seeking the Nick Gorgas out there. At the Detroit Zoo, Communications Director Patricia Mills Janeway said they have created a number of 21-and-older events in recent years to appeal to a younger audience, such as Love Gone Wild, Summer Zoomance, Zoo Brew, and Wild Beasts, Wild Wine.

“Once we get them through the gates, we can engage them in our mission and create a passion for our organization,” she said.

Wittkopf of the Cranbrook Art Museum said that while most of the museum’s board members are “probably in their 50s and 60s,” and recognized the need to develop fundraisers for a younger audience. We created Serious Moonlight with a ticket price of $75, and some of that was tax deductible. The typical entree point is often $250, $500, or $1,000. I asked the board members, I don’t want you to chair it, but your sons and daughters. Over the years, three of those have now become board members. Now they’re the ones giving six-figure gifts to capital campaigns.

That’s success to me.”

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number of recent initiatives to encourage participation and create a passion in younger patrons. The 37/11 Club is for anyone under 37, where they can buy a membership to the symphony for $37, and then tickets to classical, jazz, and pop concerts are $11 a piece.

“We also have a series of concerts called Mix at the Max that are held at the Music Box, which is a smaller venue at the Max,” said Gabrielle Poshaldo, Patron Communications and Public Relations Manager for the DSO. The Music Box holds 300 concertgoers, she said, versus 2,000 at Orchestra Hall. The events are often held during the week, after work. “Basically, the programming at those are our musicians playing jazz and Ragtime music. It has a Speakeasy atmosphere.

People are dressed up in period costumes and they’ve enjoyed themselves. They have been very well-received.”

As more young people are living in the downtown and Midtown areas of the city, they have begun an Om Yoga on some Sunday mornings at 11 a.m., where chamber music is performed by DSO musicians to accompany a yoga class taught in the Max. “It’s been so popular, we want to make it a regular series,” Poshaldo said. It began, she said, because one of the symphony’s librarians is a certified yoga instructor with Yoga Shelter, and suggested it. “Because he knows the musicians, the music, and yoga, he could really put it together.”

She said it’s popular for all ages, with up to 200 people surrounding the musical ensemble in the center of the space, with yoga mats around them. “The first one was so popular, the next one sold out in a few days.”

The DSO also has an organization called Assemble, a separate organization of artists that seek to bring speakers in to a younger audience, “and we want to host them,” Poshaldo said. “The first event was an urban planner connected to Obama and Detroit. Every young hip Detroiter was in the building.”

Recognizing they need to continually reach out, they have created a NextGen committee, which is a group of young professionals charged with buying a table and bringing friends to events.

With all of the young patron outreach, “a goal is we hope their relationship with the DSO will evolve as they move on with their lives,” Poshaldo said. At this point, she said, about half of the NextGen committee members have become donors at some level.

“The world is a different place than when their parents were their age,” she acknowledges.

“There are so many different opportunities for them, and for us, to do smaller concerts, and concerts in different places. Our abilities have changed drastically to do different things.”

The Michigan Opera House’s DiChiera also sees the mission of the Opera House going forward as engaging younger patrons in their way as a chief objective. “People only get involved when there’s a personal connection,” he said.

“The younger generation is more interested in the product and their experience. They need to have a good time from beginning to end.”

He said they are doing a combination of social events and providing access to operas, both at the Opera House and in suburban venues. “We want

them to come to our house, but we’re also going to them. That’s what it’s all about. The Opera House is such a beautiful place, we want them to experience it. But we have to go to them, too. The important thing is for them to enjoy their experience and enjoy the show. The days are gone that we sit in our ivory towers and wait for people to come to us.”

A popular fundraiser in early June for the younger generation, Bravo! Bravo! brings several thousand people to downtown Detroit to support the opera. But on a more sustainable level, MOT has Access, where for between $25 and $35, “they get a good ticket in a good part of the house to an opera, get a drink ticket, and are invited to a reception with the cast,” DiChiera said. “The opportunity to interact with these artists, that they’ve just seen on stage, is so exciting.”

He said turnout varies, with a popular opera gathering several 100 younger patrons, and a lesser known opera, about 40. “It allows our staff to get to know them,” he said. ext spring, DiChiera said, they are collaborating with the DIA on a special production. MOT will do an opera on the life of artist Frida Kahlo, that they will take to the Center for Performing Arts in Macomb County, the Ford Theater in Dearborn, and either the Seligman Performing Arts Center or the Berman Theater in Oakland County. The Detroit Institute of Arts will be mounting an exhibition of Kahlo and her husband Diego Riviera’s works.

Once excited and engaged, it’s a matter of capturing younger patrons excitement and maintaining it, and then turning it into long term giving, even if it is in different forms than their parents’ generation.

“I think this generation has been raised to think about all of their actions, from world impact to giving back to their communities, and to look at their actions, so they’re applying it to everything they do,” noted Detroit Country Day’s Murphy. “We see that young donors are very passionate about what they are engaging in and the organizations they support.”

“We want their ideas, because as the older generation, our ideas no longer function,” DiChiera conceded. “They have to tell us and take over the leadership. It’s all about engagement. It’s about nurturing them and then letting them nurture us to let them know what they want. So many young professionals are bright and creative, and that’s what we need. They’re the future – we’ll be gone. They need to help guide us to the future because they’re the future. We’re kinda the present and mostly the past.”

DiChiera said the “older generation is very concerned about how they have given is having ongoing recognition. It’s been very appreciated.

We would not have had an Opera House if they had not named rooms or chair without them.”

But a name on a building or a plaque at a room doesn’t motivate Gen X. It’s the action and its effects, not the accolades.

“I don’t consider the naming important, but I do consider the legacy important,” said Gorga.

“This generation of Detroiters are very teamoriented and want to work together. It doesn’t matter whose name to us is on the cover, but that we built something sustainable that will be there for generations.”

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A man named Joachim Gans was the first Jewishborn person to arrive on American soil, in 1584. Prior to that, a Spanish conquistador and converted Jew, Luis de Carabajal y Cueva, landed in what is now Texas in 1570. The first recorded Jew in Detroit was Chapman Abraham, a fur trader from Montreal who in 1762 traveled along the Detroit River. At the time of his death in 1783, his residence was recorded as Detroit. By 1840, there were about 15,000 Jews in the country out of a population of 17 million Americans, according to the 1840 U.S. Census, representing a small but stable middle class minority. Those that came in the 1840s were primarily German Jews, and in Detroit, many entered the fur trade, fishery business and dry goods businesses. At that time, according to historians, intermarriage with non-Jews was quite frequent, until a rapid rise in immigration led to 50,000 Jews in 1848. uring this period, Detroit’s first congregation was formed at the corner of Congress and St. Antoine, called Temple Beth El, by 12 German Jewish families. It originally was a an orthodox congregation as well as a Jewish congregational cemetery. In 1861, Beth El became a Reform temple, having adopted a new set of laws from the then emerging and innovative branch of the religion, and moved to Rivard Street. The change to the Reform movement lead some more traditional members to be very unhappy with the reforms.

Seventeen of the more Orthodox members left, forming Congregation Shaarey Zedek, which later became a Conservative congregation.

Following the congregational split, the temple purchased a large building on Washington Boulevard and Clifford Street, near Grand Circus Park, where services were held until 1903, when the congregation authorized a new building designed by a young architect and congregant, Albert Kahn, at Woodward Avenue near Eliot Street. Jews, as they prospered, moved northward, near what is now Midtown, and religious institutions followed their worshippers.

Shaarey Zedek members worshipped at the intersection of Congress and St. Antoine, and in 1877 built an elaborate Moorish Revival building for its population within the city, where they remained until 1903. At that time, they followed their members out to the more fashionable and affluent neighborhoods of northeast Detroit, from Winder and Brush streets, and in 1913 built a spacial domed Neoclassical synagogue at Willis and Brush street, where they remained until 1932, when they built a Romanesque Revival sanctuary designed by architect Albert Kahn at Chicago Boulevard at Lawton in 1932.

Just as with other immigrant groups, Jews immigrated to the United States for better economic opportunities and to escape religious persecution, especially a rise of pogroms, or organized massacres against Jewish villages in Russia, Poland and other countries in eastern Europe. While early Jewish immigrants were either wealthy or middle class, between 1880 and 1914, most Jewish immigrants were poor and from more traditional and observant Jewish backgrounds.

In 1880, there were approximately 1,000 Jews in Detroit; by 1920 there were almost 35,000, and in 1937, Detroit was the fourth largest city in America with the sixth largest Jewish community. There was one Reform temple, Temple Beth El, and four Orthodox congregations, Shaarey Zedek, B’Nai Israel, B’Nai Jacob, and Beth Jacob.

While New York City and Ellis Island were the first stopping point for immigrants of all colors and

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backgrounds, Jews, like Italians, Irish, German, French and other foreigners often made their way to other cities, migrating west to cities like Detroit, where industry and culture were prospering. Familial sponsors provided the opportunity to settle in neighborhoods of their “own”. By the 1940s, a good deal of the Detroit Jewish community was centered in the 12th Street, Linwood and Dexter neighborhood in the city of Detroit, with the Jewish population having risen to 85,000 and the number of congregations catering to its citizens at 48, with many small, neighborhood synagogues.

Since settling in Detroit, Jews have always been on the move, seeking improved housing, more space, greener pastures. A northwest migration pattern which began in Detroit has continued to today into the northwestern Oakland suburbs. From 1840 to 1940, the movement was from Lower Hastings to Upper Hastings in Detroit; between 1920 and 1940, to the Twelfth Street and Dexter areas just west of Oakland to northwest Detroit from the late 1930s to the 1960s.

After World War II, as first the National Highway Act subdivided the city with the building of M-10 the Lodge freeway, and then developers building affordable brick ranch homes with cheap mortgages in Oak Park, and then Southfield, those inner ring suburbs became meccas of Jewish settlement.

“Jews, like other white populations, were enticed by the federal government’s efforts to subsidize suburban living: mortgages were easy to obtain and cheap if one were white, and new developments, also subsidized by government relief, offered plentiful affordable housing in the postwar era,” wrote Lila Corwin Berman in Jewish Migration and the American City. “Encouraging home ownership, especially in newly built suburbs, became a national policy intended to stimulate the economy and produce proper citizens.” he Jews, as another immigrant group attaining affluence, assimilation and success, were striving to become those proper citizens.

Robbi Terman, archivist with the Leonard N. Simons Jewish Community Archives, said there were a few reasons Jews were leaving the city of Detroit for the suburbs. “A lot of different groups were moving north into the suburbs. A lot of Jews were in retail and they were following their customers,” Terman noted. “Jews were also becoming more affluent and seeking larger homes and property, and more space.

They could show their affluence off with their bigger homes.”

Further, first the 1943, then the 1967, race riots precipitated active movement by those Jews who could leave city for greener – and less troubled – pastures.

In this they mirrored other groups of non-Jewish, upwardly mobile middle class who abandoned central cities for the suburbs, which was the classic American dream of the 1950s and 1960s, and the antithesis of today: suburban life, which in metropolitan Detroit led to suburban sprawl. As Judith Levin Cantor stated in Jews in Michigan, “As each generation of Jews became more educated, more successful, more American, and more assimilated, the wish to demonstrate all those features strengthened and took the form of new and bigger or better homes in new neighborhoods. Yet more than a quest for symbols of educational and economic achievement accounts for the regular relocation of whole communities. Federation surveys implied that, for all their tolerance, many Jews retained stereotypical views of African Americans

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and feared living in the same neighborhoods, although they often supported civil rights and defended blacks in that arena. In the Hastings Street neighborhood, long after Jews had moved their residences from there, they retained businesses there... In the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, often only Jewish merchants would allow blacks to shop in their stores...As black workers moved into Detroit, they occupied areas in which Jews lived, and fears or prejudices on both sides fostered the Jewish moves.”

Berman noted that liberal Jews around the country tried to stem the tide of Jewish movement, and liberal Jewish leaders urged Jews to welcome African Americans into their neighborhoods. But as African Americans did encroach into first Oak Park, and then Southfield, Jews fled, moving outward to the north and west within Oakland County, to newer subdivisions being developed in West Bloomfield and Farmington Hills.

“Many of the less religious Jews, those who don’t feel the need to live right near Kosher butchers or their shuls (synagogues), could move out and show their affluence,” explained Terman. “West Bloomfield seems a lot less religious, with many Reform temples along Walnut Lake Road. There’s less of a need to walk everywhere on the Sabbath.”

Today, the Jews in Oak Park and areas of Southfield tend to be extremely religious, choosing to live together in clusters with small Orthodox synagogues, social halls and Kosher butchers, sustained by a project called the Neighborhood Project, instigated by the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, which provides no interest loans to eligible Jewish families seeking to buy homes in these areas.

“Jews tended to move together, leaving one neighborhood and settling in a cluster of streets in another,” Berman wrote. “They also relocated their holy and community spaces. Each move was occasion for Jews to redefine themselves: as dwellers of sacred space, as consumers of the American architectural tradition, and as part of the American religious landscape.” s its congregants moved northward, so did Congregation Shaarey Zedek, which had become a leading synagogue in the U.S. Conservative movement, building a large building on Bell Road in Southfield, off of Lahser, Telegraph and the Lodge freeway, where it continues to stand today. At its peak, in the 1970s and 1980s, it had over 3,000 families as members; today, as families have moved northward to West Bloomfield, Commerce Township and Farmington Hills, and the Conservative movement has declined nationwide, the synagogue has about 1,200 member families, Rabbi Joseph Krakoff said.

“Today, we have a large contingent (of our congregation) that lives in West Bloomfield, and then we have a lot that lives in Huntington Woods,” Rabbi Krakoff said. “In the last 15 years, we have a large amount that lives in Bloomfield and Birmingham, then our population comes from Farmington Hills, and next from Commerce Township. We have a few families in Ferndale, and some now in Detroit. There are still some of our population living in Southfield, as well. We attract members from lots of different suburbs, not just from four key locations like we may have once done, but all over.”

In September 1951, then Rabbi B. Benedict Glazer for Temple Beth El noted that religious classrooms were filled to capacity and additional facilities were needed to be obtained so that more children could be educated, according to Jan Durecki, director of Rabbi Leo M. Franklin Archives at Temple Beth El, and in 1952, the temple purchased more than 20 acres on Northwestern Highway between Nine and Ten Mile roads. But in 1953, temple leadership decided to hold off on moving, and the temple itself bought houses in the area near the temple at Woodward and Gladstone, created off street parking, converted a gymnasium into classrooms, and modernized the temple and social hall.

Yet, the fact remained that in the 1960s, according to Durecki, 60 percent of the congregation lived in the suburbs – with 85 percent of the children who needed to receive religious education.

They broke ground at their current location at Telegraph Road and 14 Mile in Bloomfield Township in 1971, and the building was dedicated in 1974.

Today, the majority of Temple Beth El’s members live in Birmingham, Bloomfield Township, Bloomfield Hills and West Bloomfield.

Temple Israel, in West Bloomfield, was the last of the Jewish religious institutions to leave Detroit, moving from a location and building at Manderson in Palmer Park in 1980.

“Our congregants had moved out to Southfield, Oak Park, West Bloomfield and Farmington Hills, and it had become more difficult for our religious schools,” said Temple Israel executive director David Tisdale. “At the time, we were renting out public school buildings in Southfield for our after school religious school. The other synagogues had spread themselves out among the suburbs.”

Tisdale said that by staying longer in the city, albeit at a site closer to inner ring suburbs like Oak Park, Ferndale, and Southfield, by the time they made

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the leap to the suburbs, the Jewish Community Center campus in West Bloomfield was well underway, and they chose a site on Walnut Lake Road which was close to it. “There’s some synergy by being close to the JCC, and we needed a site that was large enough to grow on,” he said. rowth has been achieved by Temple Israel, reversing the trend seen by many other Jewish synagogues and temples, some of which have closed, merged, or are enticing a much smaller Jewish population to find a home in their chapel. In 1980, there were 1,500 families worshipping with Temple Israel; today, there are some 3,500 families who are members at the Reform temple, making them, according to Tisdale, the largest Reform temple in the United States.

Tisdale said that in 2014, the preponderance of their members come from West Bloomfield, Bloomfield Township, Farmington Hills and Commerce Township, “as well as a very strong population in Huntington Woods.”

“This is just my observation, but we saw somewhat of a shift during the (recent) recession,” Tisdale said. “We saw as housing costs became more affordable, many young families chose to purchase homes in the Bloomfield Township area, versus the Commerce Township area, because housing costs had dropped and they could afford those homes. Now, with housing costs on the rise again, we’ve seen the reverse again.”

A 2005 population study done by the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, updated in April 2011, confirmed there were 71,500 Jews in 30,000 Jewish households in Detroit, making Detroit today the 23rd largest Jewish community in the United States, compared to 1989, when there were 96,000 Jews living in 42,500 households.

According to the 2011 study, the core area for today’s Jewish population – 2 percent of Detroit households –includes the cities of Berkley, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Bloomfield Township, Commerce Township, Farmington, Farmington Hills, Franklin, Oak Park, Southfield, Royal Oak, Huntington Woods, Walled Lake and West Bloomfield. A full 73 percent of all metropolitan Detroit Jews live in the core area, with 19 percent living in West Bloomfield, and 36 percent in West Bloomfield, Farmington Hills and Waterford.

The survey results revealed a highly educated population, with 63 percent of adults over age 25 having a four-year degree or higher, and 60 percent of adults in the labor force, while 24 percent were retired.

More concerning for demographers was the information that 24 percent of Jewish households are age 65 and over.

An interesting demographic and sociological twist in the last few years has been the resurgence of a young Jewish population in the city of Detroit, and the recent revival of the Isaac Agree Downtown synagogue, with its youthful – and multicultural – congregation. As recently as 2008, the only remaining synagogue in the city of Detroit, it was in complete disrepair and had difficulty holding services, as it often could not get 10 Jews together to hold a service.

Leor Barak, now the synagogue’s president at 33, writes on its website that the Downtown Synagogue is “more relevant than most communal spaces because its mission is to connect people, Jew and non-Jew alike, to each other and to the city...There is a new vigor and spirit emanating from the synagogue, often literally. Sidewalk dinners are held in the front of the building, with the congregants and guests becoming indistinguishable from the spill-over bar patrons next door. Dance parties, community discussions and potlucks occur alongside religious services...the synagogue boasts a roster of active young members; progressive leaders, like Barak, who are reshaping the role of religious institutions into communities.”

Barak notes that for some Jews, the synagogue is an entry point into Detroit.

Surprisingly, Detroit’s renaissance is assisting some old stalwarts. Shaarey Zedek, with it’s majestic stained glass windows overlooking Southfield’s highway “mixing bowl”, has until recently, been catering to a smaller, older, aging demographic, Rabbi Krakoff acknowledged. For a while, its board debated abandoning it’s Southfield building for investment property at 12 Mile and Meadowbrook in Novi, to follow younger members and appease the need to be closer for afternoon religious school. Compromises were made, with Sunday school remaining at the Southfield building, and afternoons split between Shaarey Zedek for those living in Huntington Woods, Birmingham and Bloomfield, and renting Hillel Day School in Farmington Hills for those living in West Bloomfield and Farmington Hills.

But, Krakoff said, suddenly, they’re hot again. “Now, probably more so since the 60’s and 70’s, because of the increase in population and the popularity of Detroit, we’re the closest to the city,” he said. “We’re smack dab between the city and the suburbs, and right off the highway. Now it’s so convenient for people to stop by here for evening prayers. People tell me every day how easy it is to get here.”

He laughs. “We love our building. Wait long enough and things come around.”

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ive years after the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act was voted into effect, a host of varying legal interpretations and differing ordinances enacted by local municipalities has led to a state of confusion. The act was approved by 63 percent of voters across Michigan in 2008 because it was seen as a way to provide compassionate care to those suffering from a number of debilitating illnesses. But instead of many patients receiving help and the medical marijuana they believe will help alleviate their symptoms, law enforcement and lawmakers statewide continue to disagree over how to properly interpret and adjudicate a substance their constituents have determined should not be illegal, and should be available, within reasonable limits.

For instance, a medical marijuana caregiver can join with others and establish a collective under some local ordinances, where they provide medical marijuana products to registered patients, in accordance with state law. However, the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office and Sheriff’s Department have stated that dispensaries are illegal, and that was affirmed under a recent Michigan Supreme Court ruling.

Other communities have sought to preempt the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act by enacting ordinances that prohibit activities allowed under the act. However, another Michigan Supreme Court ruling found such ordinances in violation of state law. To paraphrase a Supreme Court justice who spoke recently with the Grand Rapids Press: the law approved by voters in 2008 is “a mess.”

In November 2008, 63 percent of the population of the state of Michigan voted for a ballot proposal which made medical marijuana legal, with an approved card issued by the state. Michigan became the 13th state at the time to legally approve the use and dispensation of medical marijuana.

Today, medical marijuana is legal in 21 states and the District of Columbia.

Interpretations of the law continue to vary from district courts to the Michigan Court of Appeals and the state’s Supreme Court, leading to a mishmash of local ordinances and enforcement policies statewide.

“It’s ridiculous what has occurred,” said Capt. John Ellsworth, acting police chief of the Wolverine Lake Village Police Department. “They went with a horrible piece of legislation and because they were in a rush to get it passed, they caused many problems.”

At least 18 communities in Oakland County have ordinances that specifically address medical marijuana, with additional communities having at least some mention of medical marijuana in their municipality’s ordinances pertaining to zoning regulations. Other communities, such as Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Pleasant Ridge and Oxford Village attempt to preempt Michigan’s Medical Marijuana Act by referring to federal law.

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In Ferndale – where in November 2013, voters approved a ballot proposal decriminalizing the possession of an ounce or less of marijuana on private property for people at least 21 years old – medical marijuana is addressed in the city’s ordinances. Under local law, medical marijuana facilities and/or medical marijuana grow operations must be licensed by the city. Facilities are any place where a primary caregiver and/or qualified patients legally registered by the state of Michigan may lawfully assist qualified patients. Grow operations means a use in accordance with the MMMA, as amended for growing, planting and manufacturing medical marijuana.

In both facilities and operations, the person who wishes to undertake the action must be licensed by the city. Applicants must complete a checklist prepared by a doctor, and abide by city regulations, such as only allowing staff at a facility outside the hours of 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

West Bloomfield, Auburn Hills, Farmington Hills and Bingham Farms have each passed moratoriums regarding medical marijuana facilities in their communities.

A West Bloomfield moratorium passed in October bars the “review or action by all township entities, officials, employees or agents on applications, proposals, requests, permits, approvals, zoning compliance or certificates regarding marijuana facilities or for the dispensing of marijuana that might be proposed or presented to the township as protected or allowed by the MMMA and that during the moratorium period, no marijuana facility shall be allowed in the township.”

In Huntington Woods, the city’s home operation ordinance requires the approval of a special land use to be given to occupations not permitted at residentially zoned areas, including that of a primary caregiver. Similar ordinances are in effect in other communities, such as Holly Township, Clawson, Milford Township and Wolverine Lake Village.

Wixom city ordinances prohibit any use of land building or structures prohibited by federal or state regulations, with an exception to medical marijuana activities, including the acquisition, possession, cultivation, manufacture, use, delivery, transfer or transportation of medical marijuana by a qualifying patient or primary caregiver as defined in the MMMA. The city, however, limits those activities to specific zoned districts. The ordinance also specifically prohibits dispensaries, cooperatives and other shared growing facilities.

Enforcement in Wolverine Lake Village follows the guidelines set out by the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act, Ellsworth said. Additionally, the village addresses medical marijuana through local zoning ordinances, which restrict where growing and dispensary operations can take place. For instance, any location other than a registered patient’s residence where a patient cultivates or uses marijuana is subject to license requirements. Grow operations are also subject to inspections, and dispensaries aren’t permitted to be located in residential districts. While Wolverine Lake Village ordinances address medical marijuana dispensaries, Ellsworth said the lack of abundant retail or commercial space in the community essentially keeps any such businesses from being established.

“I’ve seen a lot of conflicting things occurring in other communities,” Ellsworth said.

One of the issues with how the state’s medical marijuana law is enforced relates to differing interpretations of the law by local municipalities, which are struggling to keep ordinances in line with changing laws. Still, some municipalities have enacted ordinances that seem to ignore the state’s law completely.

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allot Proposal 08-1, known as the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act, became law in April, 2009. The act stated specifically that it was “A legislative initiative to permit the use and cultivation of marijuana for specified medical conditions.” The law is vague, stating that patients must get appropriate documentation from an approved physician (not necessarily their own), and then be approved by Michigan Department of Community Health, which then issues them a permit card to allow them to use it as medicine. The physician must state in writing that the patient has a qualifying debilitating medical condition and that medical marijuana may mitigate the symptoms or effects of that condition.

The Michigan Department of Community Health also issues a caregiver card, allowing caregivers to grow or acquire 2.5 ounces of usable marijuana and grow up to 12 marijuana plants for a qualifying patient. One individual caregiver can assist up to five patients, who can be a relative, friend, associate or other known relation, as long as they’ve never been convicted of a felony drug offense. If a caregiver also has a state issued patient card, one caregiver can have a total of 72 plants.

From the start, local, state and federal officials have given conflicting signals about the new law.

Medical marijuana isn’t recognized by the federal Controlled Substance Act, making any possession of the drug illegal under federal law. But in 2009, the Obama administration announced it would shift their law enforcement from the Bush administration’s frequent raids on distributors of medical marijuana, saying they would respect state’s rights on the issue. However, in 2011 the feds began to reverse that course of action and started a heated campaign, first in California, to pursue medical marijuana dispensaries. The effort, as stated by the US Attorney’s Office in California at the time, has been to target operations involved in the commercial cultivation and sale of marijuana, not at sick people.

Taking a cue from federal law enforcement agencies, some local Michigan

departments have taken similar positions and made efforts to go after commercial dispensaries. Both the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office and the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office have adopted the view that medical marijuana dispensaries aren’t permitted under the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act. Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said he contacted the prosecutor’s office and the Michigan Department of Community Health when the law was first passed to find out what is permissible, what isn’t, and how best to enforce the law as it is written.

“The Department of Community Health actually had on their website that dispensaries aren’t allowed,” Bouchard said. “Right after it passed, they issued that ruling and it was on their website. The prosecutor issued the same statement to us. From the beginning, we were told they are not legal, by both the licensing agent of the state, and the county prosecutor. That’s obviously the enforcement posture we took.”

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aul Walton, chief assistant prosecutor with the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office, also stated that the MMMA doesn’t allow for the operation of dispensaries. Caregiver collectives, sometimes viewed outside the law as a dispensary, provides a place where caregivers can provide medicine to up to five patients, all whom must be connected to the caregiver through the state’s registry system. Those may be subject to federal law, he said.

“You have to comply with the act to prevent prosecution. If you are in accordance with the act and the amounts, we won’t prosecute those cases,” Walton said. “The act doesn’t supply for dispensaries. In order to be a medical marijuana provider, you can service five patients, period. And, there are plant and quantity limitations. Patients must be tied to a caregiver by the registration act.

“A collective is arguably different, with that you could run afoul of federal laws.

There is an exception to prosecution, but even if you are in compliance with the state, you are never in compliance with federal law. The (Drug Enforcement Administration) was telling people in this area that if you have a certain number of plants, we will come in and prosecute,” he said.

Despite being passed by an overwhelming majority of voters, some Oakland County communities, such as Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills and several others, have enacted ordinances that prohibit any activity that is prohibited under federal law. Other communities have accepted the state’s medical marijuana law and created and approved ordinances that allow for the operation of dispensaries, or caregiver collectives, as have been done in Commerce Township and Walled Lake.

Still other municipalities have devised local ordinances that don’t appear to follow state or federal guidelines, such as a Bloomfield Township ordinance that requires state registered patients to additionally register at the township police department in order to use medical marijuana in their own home. The Bloomfield Township ordinance also prohibits any cultivation and/or distribution activity in the township by any caregiver or patient, in direct conflict with the state’s medical marijuana law.

In February 2014, the Michigan Supreme Court found that local officials can’t ban the use of medical marijuana within their municipal boundaries. Specifically, the court said it is possible to adhere to both federal and state law regarding medical marijuana.

“The (federal) Controlled Substance Act criminalizes marijuana, making its manufacture, distribution or possession a punishable offense under federal law.

Section 4 of the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act doesn’t require anyone to commit that offense, however, nor does it prohibit punishment of that offense under federal law. Rather the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act is clear that, if certain individuals choose to engage in Michigan Medical Marijuana Act compliant medical marijuana use, (the act) provides them with a limited state-law immunity from arrest, prosecution or penalty in any manner — an immunity that doesn’t purport to prohibit federal criminalization of, or punishment for, that conduct.”

In reaching its opinion, the Supreme Court noted that 99 out of every 100 marijuana arrests in the country is made under state law, rather than federal.

Therefore, the Michigan’s Medical Marijuana Act “will have the practical effect of protecting from arrest the vast majority of seriously ill people who have a medical need to use marijuana.” And, although federal law prohibits using and distributing marijuana, states are not required to enforce federal law or prosecute people for engaging in activities prohibited by federal law.

The case, Ter Beek v the City of Wyoming, came about when John Ter Beek, a resident of Wyoming, Mich., filed an action against the city seeking to have its ordinance regarding medical marijuana declared void and the court grant an injunction prohibiting its enforcement.

Ter Beek, according to the court, wanted to grow and use marijuana for medical purposes, and argued that the state’s medical marijuana law allowed for it. Ter Beek was a qualifying patient and had registered with the state. The court ultimately disagreed with the city’s argument, which claimed that federal law preempts the state’s medical marijuana law.

The city of Wyoming, in 2010, had adopted an ordinance amending the zoning chapter of the city to include language stating that “uses that are contrary to federal law, state law or local ordinance are prohibited.”

The case may now have some communities revisiting their ordinances to ensure they aren’t in violation of state law.

The city of Birmingham, whose ordinance was challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union, is in the process of updating its ordinance, as is Bloomfield Hills.

Linda and Robert Lott, both registered patients under the MMMA, filed suit against Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills and Livonia seeking declaratory relief against ordinances in those cities which prevent the growth and dispensation of medical marijuana. The cities created their ordinances after the passage of the MMMA in 2008, and includes language that prohibits anything that is against federal law. The ACLU assisted the Lotts’ in the case, which was dismissed in late 2011 by Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Colleen O’Brien, who came to her decision based on the fact that the Lotts hadn’t been arrested for any wrongdoing in conjunction with their presumed medical marijuana use.

Birmingham City Attorney Tim Currier said that despite winning the lawsuit, the city essentially lost because the case was preempted by the Ter Beek ruling by the Supreme Court. Birmingham is now looking at introducing a new ordinance that would allow for grow operations in mixed use zoned areas, in the city’s Rail District.

“The ordinance isn’t effective to medical marijuana issues,” Currier said of the ordinance since the Supreme Court ruling. “If you were using medical marijuana in your premises, now that it isn’t a violation of state law. Our current ordinance isn’t effective.”

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urrently, the use or growth of medical marijuana by registered patients or caregivers is prohibited by the city’s ordinance, however, Currier said code enforcement isn’t actively enforcing the ordinance since the higher court’s ruling. Meanwhile, the city’s planning board is looking at revisiting the ordinance to allow grow operations in designated areas, specifically, in mixed used zoned areas in the Rail District.

Currier said one of the problems with the grow operations undertaken by caregivers that are growing for more than one patient is that it could attract crime, particularly criminals seeking to steal plants and growing equipment.

“The thought process was to put them all in the same spot,” Currier said about grow operations that are required to be in a closed, locked facility. “Also, that area has a little better protection and has them sort of boxed in a little, if there were a crime there.”

In terms of distribution centers, Currier said current legislation is being considered pertaining to provisioning or distribution centers allows local municipalities to opt out and prohibit them in a community.

“We are trying to get an ordinance to clear it up,” Currier said. “We are taking actions to make it permissible, but there’s no enforcement activity right now.”

Bloomfield Hills City Clerk Amy Burton said that in light of the Ter Beek ruling, the city is also currently in the process of formulating a new ordinance.

The current ordinance states that “it shall be unlawful for any person or business to engage in activity, conduct or venture in the city that is contrary to federal, state or local laws or ordinances.” However, the ordinance goes on to say “this section shall not be interpreted to prevent the use of medical marijuana by state licensed patients in their personal residence. Provided, however, the cultivation and/or distribution of medical marijuana is strictly prohibited.”

A survey of ordinances enacted by local municipalities in Oakland County speak to the confusion. Those ordinances range from prohibiting its use or sale by referring to federal law to restricting its use or distribution to specific locations through zoning ordinances; and in some cases licensing dispensaries.

Bloomfield Township Clerk Jan Roncelli said the township’s ordinances are in compliance with current law. Bloomfield Township addresses medical marijuana through two ordinances, including its zoning and regulations chapter, which prohibits the cultivation or dispensing of marijuana anywhere in the township. The ordinance also requires all township medical marijuana patients to register with the police department. The registration list, according to the ordinance, will be kept strictly confidential and is designed to act as a safety measure for the resident in case of a possible raid.

Attorney Michael Komorn, who serves as president of the Michigan Medical Marijuana Association, said ordinances, such as Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills’, violate the tenants of the MMMA, as well as the Supreme Court’s decision in the Ter Beek case. Further, he said, he questions the legality and purpose of requiring additional registration, as required in the Bloomfield Township ordinance.

“You can’t make a behavior illegal that the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act allows for, and you can’t make further requirements, in addition to,” he said. “I would say that registering would violate (the act), and I would advise against it because law enforcement might not know what to do with that information. I would like to say that it’s best to let them have that information, but I don’t think we are there yet. What is the need for them to know, what’s the benefit going to be. If (the police) get a complaint, they can go knock on the door and talk to them.”

The city of Walled Lake has dealt directly with medical marijuana dispensaries by establishing a regulation and licensing process.

“The state statute doesn’t refer to dispensaries, but that’s the word we use in our ordinance,” said Walled Lake City Manager Dennis Whitt. “We don’t regulate it the same way, but in terms of issuing a license, we do that.”

While Whitt said there are some differences in terminology in the ordinance and

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the state statute, he said the ordinance is consistent with the statute. Despite his assurance, he said he has been forced to testify in criminal court cases regarding the city’s ordinance.

“The implication is that we are doing something wrong,” he said. “All we are trying to do is localize the activity that is authorized by state law. The city council was trying to be proactive and regulate the location. It’s a zoning ordinance more than anything. We didn’t want (dispensaries) in every place in the city. It’s not surprising that they aren’t recognizing the term. They believe that somehow local government has authorized the dispensing of marijuana.”

In August 2013, the Walled Lake City Council established a 120-day moratorium on the licensing of medical marijuana dispensaries or collectives. At the time, Whitt said he recommended the moratorium because he had been subpoenaed at least twice to testify about the ordinance.

The moratorium came on the heels of an August 1 raid at Bazonzoes, a medical marijuana collective licensed as a dispensary by the city and operating at 1123 E. West Maple. The raid involved the Oakland County Sheriff’s office and agents with the federal DEA. The raid resulted in the seizure of about 10 pounds of marijuana and $10,000. The owners, who have been charged with conspiracy to deliver a controlled substance, have pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Whitt said he believes the business was operating within the guidelines of state law; however, he said there’s still confusion over what is permitted and what isn’t under the state law.

“I think the problem is that it’s so unclear, and nobody thought it was a good idea to resolve those issues early,” Whitt said. “The prosecutor’s office is there for a reason, and someone should be using some discretion and clarifying the rules. If you’re arresting and prosecuting for votes, I have a problem with that. If someone is violating the criminal statute, we put them in jail. We are trying to comply with our understanding of the law.”

Commerce Township Supervisor Tom Zoner said the township has adopted the state law regarding medical marijuana, and that there are several dispensaries or medical marijuana centers in the township.

West Bloomfield Township in October 2013 created a moratorium on medical marijuana facilities effective through August 31, 2014. Some other municipalities have followed suit in the wake of enforcement measures in Oakland County. The crackdown on dispensaries has caught the ire of proponents of the medical marijuana movement.

“Oakland County has been absolutely terrible. They have been the selfappointed crusaders against medical marijuana,” Komorn said. “Many of the cases to come out of the (Michigan) Court of Appeals have been out of Oakland County.

They have taken the initiative to bring people into court and make an example out of them. And they have been in favor of a very limited, restrictive and punishing perspective. Not only did they take the lead on it, but they had several cases based on their theory on how the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act should be interpreted, and the Oakland County prosecutor’s interpretation has become an accepted interpretation in the courts throughout the state of Michigan.

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f the some 18 cases, Komorn said, that have been submitted to the state court of appeals, all of them have favored the prosecutor’s interpretation of the law. However, he said the Supreme Court has reversed the only case it has heard on medical marijuana.

“It’s an error to apply the law as has been suggested,” Komorn said. “They have been told they are wrong on this, but despite that and the loss of time and energy, they continue to be the crusaders and arrest people.”

Oakland County’s Bouchard denied that he is on a crusade to enforce an overly conservative view of the medical marijuana act. Instead, he said he is simply enforcing the law as it stands.

“We are on a crusade to enforce the law in the county because this county expects to have a safe, clean county. If you break the law, there are consequences.

That’s what comes from living in a safe community,” Bouchard said. “For whatever reason, I think a lot of localities saw dispensaries springing up and did nothing. I don’t know why or whether that was a conscious decision. But when we have a clear direction by the department of community health – the articulated licensing agent under the act – and by the prosecutor, I think it would be malfeasance of duty to simply ignore what is clearly a criminal action.”

Bouchard said he suggested in 2008 that the legislature established a process to protect patients by creating a system that operates similar to pharmacies.

“I suggested to the legislature that there should be predictability in the content and strength and reliability in the content and the purity,” he said. “The system itself is one that should be safe and have processes to screen out organized crime or criminals. I mean, if you get prescribed valium, you go to somebody who is licensed, who is background checked, and who has gone through a rigorous process to make sure you get exactly what the doctor wants you to have, in the exact strength and form and shape that is best for you. And the legislature did nothing.”

Legislation is now being considered to address the issue of dispensaries in the state, as well as edible medical marijuana products that are infused with marijuana.

House Bill 5104 was introduced by state Rep. Eileen Kowall in October 2013.

The bill, which has since passed the house by a three-quarter majority vote, would

amend the definition of usable marijuana to help provide ways for patients to use the prescribed drug.

The bill would add plant resin or extract to the list of useable parts of the cannabis plant. The new definition would also insure inactive substances used as delivery mediums aren’t included as usable.

“We are trying to give patients better access to alternative ways of consuming medically prescribed marijuana,” Kowall said. “Michigan residents voted to make the use of medical marijuana legal, and we must do all we can to uphold the wishes of our voters.”

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he issue stems from a 2012 raid on a Southfield-based collective dispensary involving Earl Carruthers, who was charged with possession with intent to deliver marijuana. The Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office argued that Carruthers had more medical marijuana than permitted under the law, based on the weight of several brownies that contained THC which was extracted from marijuana. While Carruthers had labeled each brownie with the amount of medicine each contained, the court considered the entire weight of the brownie as marijuana.

The bill would make it easier for medical marijuana patients and caregivers to possess marijuana-infused foods and other products that allow for the consumption of the medicine without smoking it. And to do so without being in violation of the law.

“Based on the Court of Appeals decision in the Curruthers case, if they have medical marijuana and put it in a pan of brownies that weighs two pounds, you have two pounds of marijuana,” said Sgt. Amy Dehner with the Michigan State Police.

Dehner, a legislative liaison with the department, said the state police opposes the bill in its current form because of the current definition of what is usable marijuana. The bill, she said, would also create some problems for law enforcement and patients regarding the labeling of products. She said the department is working with the bill’s sponsors to address the issues.

In terms of statewide enforcement of the MMMA, Dehner said there are no easy answers.

“We, as the state police, don’t have an option of not enforcing it as a Schedule I drug, but we have medical marijuana laws that interact. We have never ignored the fact that its a Schedule I drug, nor would we,” she said. “We don’t have an internal policy on the dispensary issue. It’s part of local government. If it were a state law and they were proposing legislation, we would weigh in on what that looks like.

Dispensaries are still a gray area and the enforcement component isn’t really clear.

If they leave it up to the local ordinance, each municipality will enforce it differently.”

Dehner said the department is also working with the legislature to address language issues with HB 4271, or the Medical Marijuana Provisioning Center Regulation Act, but it also opposes the bill in its current form. The bill, which was approved by a vote of 95-14 in December, is now in the state Senate’s Committee on Government Operations.

The bill, introduced by Rep. Mike Callton (R-Nashville) would allow the establishment of medical marijuana provisioning centers.

Callton, who is a chiropractor by trade, says he approached the bill from a health care provider perspective.

“People with a medical marijuana recommendation from the doctor are allowed to grow their own for medicinal purposes,” he said. “But some of these people only have months to live and are very sick. It’s simply not realistic to expect them to do this. Since it takes four to six months for a marijuana plant to provide usable medicine, many patients will die before their plants can help them.”

According to the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, which oversees the MMMA provisions, two-thirds of all Michigan patients have no access to a caregiver, meaning that the number of patients outnumbers the number of caregivers. Callton said the legislation is a step toward cleaning up the mess that exists today and allowing safe patient access.

The bill would mandate that provisioning centers only supply medical marijuana products, and that they couldn’t be consumed on site. It also provides for local control of dispensaries and reduces overages of marijuana by permitting caregivers to sell their excess product to the provisioning centers.

Bouchard said he is opposed to local control of dispensaries.

“You don’t have local control of a pharmacy,” he said. “This (MMMA) was passed under the premise that people that are sick ought to have access for their symptoms. That being the case, then treat it like we treat medicines at the pharmacy. The current process doesn’t come close to that.”

While Komorn and Bouchard disagree on several issues, Komorn agreed, in a sense, that the state needs a better approach to medical marijuana.

“The biggest challenge is that the entire analysis of the act has been done from a public safety perspective, not a public health perspective,” he said. “These situations are being reviewed by courts and judges, who aren’t physicians.

“You have 85 years of the greatest propaganda campaign with this ‘Refer Madness’ view of cannabis, and nothing has been done to try to educate, transform or alter the way in which the law enforcement community has viewed or should view medical marijuana,” he added. “They are trained to view things in a black and white way, and some of these aspects haven’t gotten to that point.”

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Elaine Stritch

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t 89 years old, acclaimed actress Elaine Stritch can still turn it on for the camera.

Stritch, who moved from New York to Birmingham last year due to concerns about her health and to be closer to family, made her professional debut in 1944 and performed in her first broadway comedy in 1946. She is best known for her Broadway career, as well as her work in television and movies, most recently in a recurring role on NBC’s 30 Rock as Jack Donaghy’s mother, Colleen.

“I love the weather here,” she said on one of the first warm, rainy nights of the spring season.

So, when did she decide to make a career on the stage?

“Oh, come on. After all this, you’re going to ask me that,” she said at the premier of the documentary “Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me,” at the Birmingham 8 theater. “I’ll tell you, if you really want to know. When I was about 15 or 16. I must have wanted to all my life.”

Stritch debuted in Loco on Broadway, and went on to star in Bus Stop, Sail Away, Company, and in 2001, her one-woman show, Elaine Stritch At Liberty, for which she won a Tony. She was the original Trixie Norton in the pilot of The Honeymooners; and had many featured roles on television and in the movies, including A Farewell to Arms. A cabaret singer, she closed out her New York career with a sold out run at the Cafe Carlyle.

The movie follows the Tony and Emmy Award-winning Stritch on and off the stage while living at New York’s Carlyle Hotel. Produced by Chiemi Karasawa,

the film features reflections about her life from her and friends, including Hal Prince, George C. Wolfe, Nathan Lane, Cherry Jones, Tina Fey, the late James Gandolfini, and John Turturro.

“She didn’t make it quite so tough,” Stritch said about the filming of the movie. “We had a lot of laughs, and it was a lot of fun.”

Laughs are Stritch’s specialty. But feeling a bit under the weather on the evening of the premier, she said she couldn’t remember the last time she had good one.

“It’s not because you’re boring me to death, but it is because I don’t feel very well tonight,” Stritch said. “I got up with some kind of something, and I don’t feel very well. And I did so want to feel well tonight to celebrate this opening, and I just don’t. That’s the way the cookie crumbles, isn’t it.”

She’s not feeling well. She’s irritated. It’s obvious, until the camera turns to her when she flashes a pose and a smile. She’s a professional through and through, and she loves the spotlight.

“I haven’t got a hell of a lot of time whether I do or whether I don’t,” Stritch said about the attention she receives around town in Birmingham. “I like being in the spotlight. It’s nice coming to the theater and having half a dozen people say hello to you, or however many. I think there are a few more out there. When they come to see that, I think they come to see me. Don’t you kind of suspect that?”

Story: Kevin Elliott

Photo: Laurie Tennent

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Updated kitchen with newer stainless steel appliances, granite counters and eating space with cathedral ceiling. The master suite has a fabulous updated bath with heated floors, tube skylight, open walk in shower, walk-in closet and closet organizer. Lower level is partially finished with a bedroom, full bath and cedar closet. New plantation shutters and wood blinds, 2013. Electric dog fence. Three bedrooms with 3.1 baths. 214030890

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Birmingham $1,749,000 Drive up the elevated circular driveway, enter the foyer of this exceptional brick colonial, and you will feel at home. Updated and expanded in the 90's, this Arlington beauty exudes quality and timeless appeal. 6000 sq ft of living space offers countless ways to enjoy life. Relax and read a book in the inviting library. Beautiful rear grounds with bluestone terrace, pool with spa, and lush landscaping is your own private oasis. The kitchen has Wolf and Sub zero appliances. Area adjacent to the kitchen is large enough for a billiards room and family room with Jerusalem stone fireplace. Expansive second floor recreation room. Copper gutters. Generator. Attached garage with epoxy floors. Four bedrooms with 3.2 baths. 213063163 Presented by Linda Eriksen

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Birmingham $989,000 Close to downtown, walk to Birmingham Country Club and parks. Open and airy with a ton of natural light. Fabulous open kitchen with granite counters, tumbled marble backsplash, high end appliances, nice big island along with breakfast area. Butlers pantry wet bar. Mudroom off kitchen with second laundry. Second stairway in kitchen.

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Oakland Township $749,900 Priced to sell quickly. Beautifully treed and landscaped 4 acre lot with "up North" feel. Features include kitchen with granite counters, open to great room with fireplace and soaring ceiling, sun room, paneled office, four large bedrooms including an au pair or guest suite. Finished basement with bar, fireplace and large storage area. Fabulous in-ground swimming pool and more. Located in the exclusive Pine Needle Trail neighborhood, surrounded by million dollar plus homes. Bring your decorating ideas.

Four bedrooms with 3.2 baths. 214030671 Presented by Chris Johnson and Bill Tracy

Troy $629,500 Fabulous high end custom built Ranch in highly desirable River Place Subdivision. Great floor plan, freshly painted, well kept, new furnace. Large foyer opening into high ceiling great room with fireplace. Leaded glass doors into study and formal dining room off foyer. Leaded windows in master bath and front. Beautiful powder room. Large kitchen with granite opening into family room with fireplace. First floor laundry. Finished lower level. A rare style ranch home in Troy with Troy schools. A must see!

Three bedrooms with 3.1 baths. 214023160 Presented by Donna Barlow

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Bloomfield $749,500 Custom-built in 2000, this elegant Bloomfield colonial set on a beautiful, spacious lot awaits new owners. Open floor plan begins right from foyer and flows through dining room with china cabinet, great room with custom wood pillars and stone fireplace, then breakfast room leading right into the kitchen with large island and plenty of countertop and cabinet space. Large windows open the view of beautiful private backyard with extensive rear deck and hot tub. First floor master suite with its own fireplace, sun room and sauna! Huge master bath features jet tub, shower and is adjacent to oversized walk-in closet. Large formal library with French doors and built-ins.

Central vacuum system. 3-car attached garage. Huge basement ready for finish. Bloomfield Hills schools. Four bedrooms with 3.1 baths. 214019402 Presented by Maureen Francis and Dmitry Koublitsky

Birmingham $599,000 Stunningly updated Colonial in sought after Birmingham Estates. Master bedroom newer addition which boasts a large walk-in closet, a bathroom with dual sinks, jetted tub and over sized Euro shower. Spacious new addition family room with custom built-in cabinets, cathedral ceilings and French windows overlooking large backyard. Mud room addition. Gas fireplace in living room. Cozy office/den. Newer roof, furnace, air conditioning and hot water heater. Refinished hardwood floors. Hardy plank siding.

Newer driveway. Plenty of storage space. This home has it all and won't last long!

Four bedrooms with 2.1 baths. 214025814 Presented by Erin Keating DeWald

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Commerce Township $374,900 Hard to find open floor plan with first floor master suite, two story great room ceilings, three car garage and a finished walk-out lower level. This house has it all. It is situated on a premium lot with an expansive open view overlooking the pond/wetland area. Beautiful bright light shines through the double stacked great room windows.

Elegant Cherry Mahogany cabinets accented with a top of the line granite counter selection. Professionally designed landscaping with gorgeous Lake Superior sand stone walkway, Trex Deck and perennials. Sought after Walled Lake Schools. Intercom, central vacuum system and newer air conditioning. Close to Union and Long Lakes.

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omposer Cindy McTee’s music has been described by the Houston Chronicle as reflecting the “charging, churning celebration of the musical and cultural energy of modern-day America,” which has been performed throughout the world and earned her critical acclaim at home and overseas.

“It’s heavily influenced by jazz, but it’s not the style. There’s no recognizable jazz style, it’s just influenced by jazz,” McTee said about her music. “The orchestra has been my medium of choice for a long time.

“There are elements of Ravel and Stravinsky. My music is pretty eclectic . You will hear things in it that you’ve heard before, and I have an interest in bringing different musics together. I like there to be a scent of improvisation and some spontaneity.”

Her accomplishments also include more than a quarter century as a music educator, first in her birth town and undergraduate alma mater in Tacoma at the Pacific Lutheran University, and later at the University of North Texas, where she retired as the chair of the Division of Composition Studies.

However, it was her love for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra – or more specifically her husband, DSO Music Director Leonard Slatkin, that eventually made McTee at home in Bloomfield Hills.

Slatkin was maestro with the St. Louis Symphony in 1988 when he read a piece of McTee’s music. The symphony played the piece, leading to what would be a life-altering meeting between composer and conductor.

“It was an amazing experience to stand on that stage,” McTee said. “He ended up playing that piece quite a bit, and I would often go to performances and talk after. I got to know him through those performances over the years. In 2000, he wanted to commission a piece for the symphony. I wrote it and it played in 2002, and he took it to Carnegie Hall. Then I didn’t hear from him for about four or five years.”

McTee had already been promoted to a full professor at the University of North Texas when she noticed Slatkin was going to be conducting the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and asked if he would come in and work with some of her students. He accepted.

“I picked him up in my sports car the next day and we had our first date,” she said.

McTee continued to write another piece for Slatkin while he was at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and retired in May 2011 from UNT. That November, she and Slatkin married.

“That was a big year,” McTee said. “That year, I retired from UNT. It was the year I got married, and the year I was diagnosed with breast cancer.”

Now at home with Slatkin in their Bloomfield Hills home for nearly three years, McTee said the “cancer thing” is behind her.

She thanks the Karmanos Cancer Institute, to whom she said she owes “a huge debt of gratitude.”

As for her students, McTee said she encourages them to learn from those that have done it well, and then learn to find their own voice.

“Write who you are, and be who you are,” she said. “They have to wrap their musical brain around their own culture and let their culture inform what they do musically, because it’s very natural.”

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By Lisa Brody

Bloomfield Township Planning, Building & Ordinance Director Patti Voelker introduced at the township’s board of trustee’s meeting on Thursday, April 17, an ordinance amendment for a business planned unit development overlay district to extend along Telegraph Road from Orchard Lake to 14 Mile Road in areas where commercial zoning is permitted.

Voelker explained that in 2003, an existing B4 district was established for development along Telegraph Road between Square Lake Road and Orchard Lake Road in order to develop standards to review for rapid and improved development, based on state standards for planned unit development. A planned unit development, or PUD, is a type of building development as well as a regulatory process. It is utilized as a designed grouping for both varied and compatible land uses, such as housing, retail, commercial development, as well as recreation and industrial parks, all within one contained development or subdivision. Voelker explained that the township’s ordinance permits for a greater usage of designs between and amongst neighboring businesses.

Voelker was clear that the business PUD, or BPUD, in the township is not meant to circumvent any existing township standards or the township’s master plan, “but to provide for eligibility of projects in Bloomfield Township. Our master plan is a mirror image of our zoning ordinance classifications.”

Since the B4 district ordinance was enacted, it has not been utilized.

However, a grouping of businesses undergoing sales and new development at the northwest corner of Maple and Telegraph spurred the conversation to implement the overlay district, Voelker said. “Each (business) has approached the township to talk about how to enhance their property,” she said.

“We found that each and every property would have to have numerous variances they would have to seek. We asked if there was any communications between the owners and there was some. They asked if we had any tools existing for them to share parking and traffic circulation downtownpublications.com

Pogo expanding into former Olga’s spot

By Lisa Brody

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ogo, a sneaker and skateboard shop in Birmingham, will expand its offerings into men’s and women’s lifestyle clothing, footwear and accessories when it moves to 138 S. Old Woodward in Birmingham in the former Olga’s location sometime this summer.

The move will take the store, a popular skateboard and sneaker location for decades at 381 Hamilton Row, from 1,100 square feet to over 3,000 square feet in a central downtown Birmingham location.

“We’re basically going to stay true to our roots in the sneaker and skate game,” said Adam Bishop, who owns the store with his brother Jacob. “But in addition, we’re going to add lifestyle clothing and footwear, apparel and accessories because we view it as a lifestyle. With Pogo, it’s all about having fun and excitement in Birmingham.”

Bishop said Nike is one of their biggest accounts and will remain their most important in their new store, which will offer them the ability to showcase special and unique offerings. “We have a special account with them. We get sneakers that are designed by some of the most famous artists in the world. A lot of these sneakers are released in limited editions and are different and unique, and once released, often go up in value,” he said.

In order for customers to get access to these limited edition Nike sneakers, he said they often hold raffles, or have first-come, first-serve availability, with lines forming overnight in front of the store. “For those who value collecting rare sneakers, it’s like collecting fine art work,” he explained.

In addition, the new Pogo will be adding fashion pieces in apparel and footwear, including a special line from Lacoste, called Lacoste Live, designed for specialty boutiques. Bishop said they will also be carrying lines for men and women, including Vans, Adidas, Reebok and a special Converse line designed by menswear designer John Varvatos.

“We know that many people in Birmingham are fit and active, and there are a lot of runners, so we’ll be carrying of lot of running and active footwear,” he said. In the winter, they will be adding to their offerings with brands like Sorel.

“We will be staying true to our roots, but expanding into fashion,” Bishop emphasized. “We will also celebrate these exciting releases with different release event parties in our store to tell the stories of our products.”

patterns. They have shown a willingness to work together if there was a concept – what could be done, what types of uses, what kinds of shared parking, traffic circulation, at such a significant corner.”

She said that no site plans have been developed or submitted by any of the businesses at that corner, so there is no way to know at this time if it would meet a litmus test. “But we felt there was a deficiency in our tool box to meet the need in a high volume thoroughfare, should a project qualify,” she said.

By extending the BPUD down Telegraph Road throughout the township, it would only be applicable where commercial zoning is already permitted. She said by creating an amendment with an overlay zoning district, it would be layered over the existing zoning, so businesses would

not lose their underlying zoning.

The BPUD would not permit deviations for building heights to existing building larger than 35,000 square feet, and no fast food establishments would be permitted in BPUD overlay districts.

In response, township treasurer Dan Devine said, “I do not trust developers as far as I can throw. As soon as you open it up, you don’t know you’re going to get.”

Township clerk Jan Roncelli commented, “I have a real problem with the allowable height, which is 50 percent more than the B1 district (at 20,000 square feet). It puts our residents at a disadvantage for what they’ve been looking at for the last 40 years or so. I’m very uncomfortable.

We’re only 5 percent commercial and 95 percent residential.”

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the BPUD district, particularly citing the failed Bloomfield Park project.

“The Bloomfield Park project should not be the model for Bloomfield Township,” said one resident.

Another said, “I don’t want Telegraph to turn into Orchard Lake Road.”

Because this was an introduction, no action was taken and it will return to the board of trustees at a later date.

Transitional zoning decisions made After two years of study and analysis regarding rezoning transitional areas in Birmingham, at a public hearing Wednesday, April 8, the Birmingham Planning Board made decisions on two controversial areas in order to determine development standards for these new zone districts.

The public hearing was to create a new zoning transitional overlay district by creating new zoning classifications TZ1 and TZ2, for attached single family residential, and for TZ3 and TZ4, for mixed use areas, and establishing development standards for these new districts.

“We did a very interesting thing.

We looked at the minimum lot size at five different areas of most concern adjacent to residential areas and determined that a 3,000 square foot lot size is appropriate,” said planning board chair Robin Boyle. “It’s smaller than the minimum lot area but that way you get more density.”

Boyle said the transitional rezoning process initially began after a developer requested a conditional zoning change for a proposed multifamily project on a long-vacant parcel at the corner of Oakland Avenue, Park and Woodward from single-family to general business, seeking to put 13 units on the property. The Birmingham City Commission decided they did not want to rezone one property for a developer, and tasked the planning board with analyzing several areas of the city, including 300 N. Ferndale; 191 N. Chester; 400 W. Maple; 564, 588, 608, and 660 Purdy; the corner of Quarton and Woodward; 14 Mile Road and Pierce; Adams Road from Adams Square to Lincoln; Southfield and 14 Mile roads; Park and Oakland; Eton Road north of Maple.

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At this meeting, Boyle said they determined that the Oakland/Park property would best result in four to five stacked units of approximately 1,200 square feet. “It’s a reflection of how we studied the situation, listened to all parties, and analyzed it,” he said. “Will it satisfy everyone?

No, it will not. One neighborhood group wants everything in the city rezoned back to single family. It’s not realistic.”

He pointed out the changes in today’s lifestyles and the goals of city planners. “The city wants a different product today, one that is smaller, for people who are downsizing, that is relatively affordable. That is walkable.

We need properties that are transitional. We should provide that opportunity,” he said.

He said that there were a couple of older residents who argued at the public hearing against some permitted uses in the mixed use transitional zoning areas. “They argued that we are allowing and encouraging inappropriate uses for the transitional zone because they are adjacent to residential areas,” Boyle

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said. “We disagree. The modest changes we are recommending are what our residents want for contemporary uses – to walk and pick up things, a cup of coffee, a paper, and not always get in a car.”

New permitted uses for the transitional zoning areas adjacent to residential areas include coffee shops, health studio and clubs, including yoga, dry cleaners, boutiques and specialty food stores.

There was another public hearing to complete the transitional zoning process in late April, before sending the completed zoning package to the city commission for approval.

PUD agreement for Bill’s approved

By Lisa Brody

Bloomfield Hills City Commissioners on Tuesday, April 8, approved an amendment to the existing Planned Unit Development (PUD) agreement for the new restaurant owned by Bill Roberts, called Bill’s, which will occupy the

location of the former Fox Grill at 39556 Woodward.

The new casual restaurant, which will be part of restaurateur Roberts Restaurant Group, was seeking an amendment to the existing PUD agreement for the property at the corner of Woodward and Long Lake roads. Any changes to a building with a PUD requires an amendment approved by the city commissioners.

Roberts is seeking to make changes to both the interior and exterior of the restaurant space. Commissioners approved the amendment of the PUD agreement, 4-1, with commissioner Stuart Sherr dissenting.

Sherr opposed the change to the existing PUD agreement because he would like to see the removal of the Oswald sign which currently sits on the building’s property. Oswald Insurance is a second floor tenant in the building. Previously, building owner Arkan Jonna had received a variance to the PUD agreement to provide Oswald with the sign, as the city prohibits signage on buildings.

While Sherr did not have any

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objections to the restaurant changes, he voted against its PUD amendment for the renovations due to those signage issues.

While Roberts declined to reveal his menu, stating it was still under development, he told commissioners he felt the interior should go back to its heritage, “with a retro design that is warm and inviting.” The location was for decades the Fox & Hounds.

The interior will be completely renovated, with large wood beams to reference the tudor aspects of the building. The bar area will be redone to create a more comfortable area along with a new zinc bar top.

Roberts’ memo detailing changes included a dining room that will feature more comfortable booths than the previous incarnation. Roberts is the owner of the popular local restaurants Beverly Hills Grill, ML Cafe, Streetside Seafood, Roadside B & G, and Town Tavern. He said he anticipates opening in late summer.

“The décor is gorgeous. It’s reminiscent of a pub,” said mayor Pat Hardy. “I predict it will be his best spot.”

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Millage renewals on August ballot Bloomfield Township voters will consider renewals on two public safety millages, the senior center millage, and for the safety paths after the board of trustees approved putting them on the August 5 ballot, by a vote of 6-0 on Monday, March 24, other than the safety path millage, which passed by a vote of 51, with treasurer Dan Devine dissenting.

Two of the expiring millages are public safety millages, for police and fire services. Township supervisor Leo Savoie said money from the millages would go directly to help fund all operations of the police and fire departments, and not for equipment needs.

One of the millages is for 1.136 mills and the other for .6941 mills, for a total of 1.8301 mills. Both millages would be for 10 years, with another millage coming due in 2016.

The current .6941 millage is a renewal of a previously renewed

public safety millage that will expire at the end of 2015. It will raise approximately $2.3 million. The 1.136 millage is a renewal of a previously renewed public safety millage which expired the end of 2013. It is estimated to raise $3.7 million.

Savoie said that they were putting both on the ballot in 2014 because if they waited to place the 2015 expiring millage on a ballot next year, they would have to pay for a special election, which township clerk Jan Roncelli said would cost the township $100,000.

Devine was concerned that people would only vote for one renewal.

“We’re going to have to do our jobs on educating people that these are renewals and what the ramifications are if they do not pass,” Savoie said.

“They’re not scare tactics. We have an obligation to the public to operate their township with the money we have.”

The third millage proposal is also a 10-year renewal, for the township’s senior senior services, inclusive of the senior services center at 4315 Andover Road. The millage would

raise $791,000, and is for .2439 mills.

Savoie noted that this segment of the population in the township, over the age of 50, is growing significantly and the center is averaging 400 people a day.

A debate arose over two proposals for millages for safety paths. One option was a straight renewal of the township’s safety path millage, a fiveyear, .4839 mill tax beginning December 2014, seeking to raise $1.6 million to complete the township’s 70 mile safety path master plan and provide for maintenance.

Savoie had suggested an alternate proposal at the March study session, which would be a new safety path/roads millage for the same amount, but for 10 years. It would combine with road maintenance, for the same .4839 mills.

Trustees were not in favor of the new millage proposal, preferring to renew the existing five-year safety path millage, along with the two public safety millages and the senior center millage, by a vote of 5-1, with Devine dissenting, and Corinne Khederian not in attendance.

Sewer and water rates set to rise Bloomfield Township residents can anticipate a slight increases in both water and sewer costs after the Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees unanimously approved modest rate increases to the 20142015 water and sewer rates at their meeting on Monday, March 24.

Tom Trice, director of public works for Bloomfield Township, explained that the township currently purchases its water from the Southeast Oakland County Water Authority (SOCWA) and sewage disposal services through the Oakland County Water Resources Commission (OCWRC). Both of these entities come to the township through the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD), which sells water and sewer services. The costs for these services are controlled by all of these entities, and their cost increases are passed along directly to the communities they serve.

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township’s cost to operate our water and sewer systems to determine the rate to be charged for our customers based on the volume of water that is estimated to be consumed,” Trice said.

“It is simply taking the total costs for the system and dividing it by the estimated volume to be used by the township’s customers. Our goal is to distribute the water and collect the sewerage by minimizing any rate increase to the customers while keeping in mind the necessary cash flow needed to keep the system in top operating condition, as well as providing for future revenue required to sustain the system for the long term.”

At one time, the township’s rates fluctuated, but in 2009, he said, the township began using a fixed rate for water “only to offset the DWSD’s costs.” When the township became a SOCWA customer in 2011, that fixed rate was kept in place.

Trice said that SOCWA has passed along a 4 percent rate increase to the township. “In figuring our total overall cost, including operation and maintenance as well as depreciation,

the retail water rate is proposed to increase by 3.29 percent and the fixed charge will increase $2.50 per quarter,” he said, for a retail rate of $4.71 per 1,000 gallons in 2014, up from $4.56, a 15-cents increase; or a fixed rate per quarter charge of $17 in 2014, up from $14.

The new OCWRC sewer rate is 6.5 percent higher than the current rate, effective July 1, 2014. The new OCWRC rate is based only on the projected sewage flow volumes and is not related to the rate that township customers are billed based on their metered water volumes, Trice said.

“After incorporating the differential flow volumes from water meter readings, our sewer rate will increase by 3.9 percent.”

Trice said that, overall, the average residential water and sewer customer, who uses approxiamtely 140,000 gallons a year, will be paying $90.60 a year more, a 4.63 percent increase, for water and sewer services, which includes the variable water and sewer rates charged for the metered water volume used, the fixed rate charged for water and sewer system operations and the debt charge for improving the

water and sewer systems.

Rates will be applied to the April 1, 2014 billing cycle.

Candidates file for state, local offices Republican and Democratic candidates vying for numerous state and local offices filed their petitions for Michigan’s August 5 primary election by the 4 p.m. deadline on Tuesday, April 22.

In the U.S. 11th Congressional District, which covers Birmingham, and Bloomfield Hills, current Rep. Kerry Bentivolio (R ) is being challenged by fellow Republican Dave Trott of Birmingham. Democrats who have filed for the seat are Anil Kumar, Bobby McKenzie, Bill Roberts and Nancy Skinner.

In the U.S. 9th Congressional District, incumbent Rep. Sander Levin (D) is being challenged by Republican George Brikho. The district includes Bloomfield Township.

For the Michigan Senate 13th District, representing Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills, Republicans Ethan

Baker, Al Gui, former state Rep. Marty Knollenberg, former state Rep. Chuck Moss, and Rocky Raczkowski will compete in the primary to see who faces Democrat Ryan Fishman in November. Current incumbent John Pappageorge is prevented from seeking re-election due to term limits.

Current state Rep. Mike McCready (R) of the 40th District, representing Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Bloomfield Township, will face Democrat Mary Belden in November.

At the county level, the two current Oakland County commissioners representing the local area will face challengers in November. Republican Shelley Goodman Taub of the 12th District (Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Bloomfield Township) will be challenged by Democrat Mike Lewis.

Democrat Marcia Gershenson of the 13th District (Bloomfield Township) will face Republican challenger Gene Yee. At the 48th District Court, which oversees cases for Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills and Bloomfield Township, incumbent judge Kimberly Small will face Kevin Kevelighan in November.

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Extraordinary 2000 built, Michael Willoughby designed soft contemporary on nearly 2 private acres.

Jerusalem limestone and stucco exterior. Brazilian cherry wood floors. 1st floor master suite. Poggenpohl kitchen. Walk-out Lower Level. 4-car garage.

BIRMINGHAM | $1,095,000 3 Bedrooms 2 Full, 1 Half Baths 3223 Square Feet MLS# 214024066

Fabulous home with A+ location! Extra-large rear yard with brick paver patio. Master suite with sitting area and marble bath. Cook’s kitchen with granite island opens to informal dining area and inviting family room. 1st floor laundry. Generator.

BIRMINGHAM | $3,100,000 5-6 Bedrooms 4 Full, 2 Half Baths 6208 Square Feet MLS# 214030457

Experience the ultimate in sophistication and luxury in this French Normandy architecturally designed home, located on a private corner site in Quarton Lake Estates. Renovated 2010-2012 by a prominent national designer.

Awarded First Place in Design by Detroit Home Magazine. Custom finishes and cabinetry. Cook’s Kitchen with oversized island and breakfast area. Wine Cellar, Theatre Room, Exercise Room. Renovated 3rd story suite. Elevator.

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CITY OF BLOOMFIELD HILLS | $1,999,900 5 Bedrooms 5 Full, 1 Half Baths 6744 Square Feet MLS# 214033701

Experience understated elegance and warmth throughout this inviting hilltop estate in the City of Bloomfield Hills.

Situated on 1.77 sweeping acres complimented by manicured landscape, private pool, illuminated tennis court and expansive paver patios. A gracious foyer opens to the formal dining room and sophisticated living room with French doors to the rear grounds. Outstanding country Kitchen with wine cellar, fireplace & sitting area. Master Suite with beautifully appointed bath. Lower Level walk-out. 3-car heated garage. Generator.

FRANKLIN VILLAGE | $3,495,000 4 Bedrooms 4 Full, 3 Half Baths 9624 Square Feet MLS# 214030315

Dominic Tringali designed English Tudor estate home on 2.48 acres in the heart of Franklin Village. Private, gated entry and winding drive flanked by a pond and fountain, leads to this stately brick and stone, slate roofed home.

Perfect blend of everyday spaces and sophisticated formal areas. Cook’s kitchen with hearth room and fireplace opens to 3-season porch. 2 story cherry paneled library. Luxurious master suite with marble bath. 3000 bottle Wine cellar and tasting room. Impressive exercise facility. Heated garages with capacity for 8 cars.

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BLOOMFIELD | $1,650,000 6 Bedrooms 4 Full, 3 Half Baths 7500 Square Feet MLS# 214014216

This Wallace Frost-designed mid-century estate is sited atop a hillside on 3.41 acres and includes 100’ lakefront parcel on Orange Lake Drive. Featuring many original architectural details throughout and long private driveway. Rebuild, remodel or reimagine an entirely brand-new estate on this rare and magnificent Bloomfield Hills lot. Adjacent 1 acre parcel also for sale to combine for 4.41 acres. Plenty of room for pool/tennis courts. Development potential!

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Newer year-round retreat 4 Bedrooms on prestigious Michigan 3 Full, 1 Half Baths Avenue. 100’ of sandy 3850 Total Sq. Ft. beach frontage. Stroll to nearby dining and shopping. MLS# 213070714

Northern lakefront retreat on 20 acres. 180’ of Clear Lake frontage. 80’ dock, 28’ pontoon boat with trailer.

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4 Bedrooms 2 Full, 1 Half Baths 2440 Square Feet MLS# 214033579

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OAKLAND TOWNSHIP $2,275,000 6 Bedrooms 9 Full, 3 Half Baths 8895 Square Feet MLS# 214026769

Private estate on 7+ acres.

4371 sq. ft. in finished walkout. Connected wing with separate entrance.

Elevator. Heated terrace.

FRANKLIN VILLAGE $1,075,000 4 Bedrooms 4 Full, 1 Half Baths 3794 Square Feet MLS# 214021911

OAKLAND TOWNSHIP $1,199,900 4 Bedrooms 4 Full, 2 Half Baths 5312 Square Feet MLS# 214034270

Elegant home on acre lot offers finished daylight 2200 sq. ft. LL with steam shower, exercise room, 2nd family room & 5th bedroom. Pool.

5 Bedrooms 6 Full, 3 Half Bath 5953 Square Feet MLS# 214028765

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Prestwick Village 1st tee location with paved cart path from garage to course. In-law apt. 1st floor master. Walkout LL. 4+ heated garage.

OAKLAND TOWNSHIP $357,900 4 Bedrooms 2 Full, 1 Half Baths 2616 Square Feet MLS# 214018098

Cul-de-sac setting in sub with walking trails, pool & tennis. Spacious master suite. Kitchen overlooks family room. 3-car garage.

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Spectacular 2.2-acre hilltop setting. Updated island kitchen with large breakfast room leads to stone terrace. Private master with marble bath. Finished walkout opens to pool area with water feature. 5-car garage.

BIRMINGHAM | $595,000 3 Bedrooms 2 Full, 2 Half Baths 2678 Square Feet MLS# 214022935

Fantastic updated home in great location.

2-story foyer. Sophisticated island kitchen.

Stylish family room with custom built-ins.

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BLOOMFIELD | $699,000 4 Bedrooms 3 Full Baths 2943 Total Sq. Ft. MLS# 213202949

Renovated mid-century walkout set on a one acre hillside ravine with a stream in the yard.

Vaulted great room with wall of windows opens to new kitchen. Spectacular master suite. Walnut Lake privileges. 3-car garage.

MIDTOWN DETROIT | $195,000 1 Bedrooms 1 Full, 1 Half Baths 967 Square Feet MLS# 214031890

Modern 3rd floor corner unit loft at The Ellington! Panoramic views. A superb spot for watching the Thanksgiving Parade. Open floor plan with hardwood floors, 10’ ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows. Fitness center.

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BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP | $799,000 4 Bedrooms 3 Full, 2 Half Baths 3982 Square Feet MLS# 214029463

Sprawling ranch on 1.25 acres steps from Gilbert Lake with private beach access.

Expansive great room. A custom granite kitchen opens to deck. Walkout LL features family room with fireplace and full bath.

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INDIAN RIVER TOWNSHIP | $12,900,000 10 Bedrooms 10 Full, 5 Half Baths 14,497 Square Feet MLS# 214008556

Gated, private masterpiece with 2390’ of shoreline on the crystalline waters of Mullett Lake. 27.5 acres of pine-studded forest.

Sweeping 131’ veranda. Expansive 1400 sq. ft. great room. 10-car garage.

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BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP | $1,275,000 5 Bedrooms 3 Full, 2 Half Baths 4987 Square Feet MLS# 214028754

BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP | $530,000 4 Bedrooms 3 Full, 1 Half Baths 3736 Square Feet MLS# 214006183

Peaceful Hickory Heights with Birmingham Schools. Newer kitchen, family room and all baths. Finished 660+ sq. ft. 2nd floor. En suite 4th bedroom for guests/in-laws. Great storage and closets. Fresh landscaping on 1/2 acre lot.

Newer construction with 1st floor master.

Cherry, granite and stainless kitchen opens to family room. Sunny Florida room. Huge lower level, ready for your finishing touches.

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BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP | $899,000 4 Bedrooms 4 Full, 1 Half Baths 4716 Square Feet MLS# 214021044

Renovated ranch in gem of a neighborhood.

Open floor plan. Granite/stainless kitchen overlooks great room. Newer windows, roof, plumbing, hot water tank. Full house generator.

Pool & landscaped yard. 3+ car garage.

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BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP | $3,500,000 5 Bedrooms 6 Full, 2 Half Baths 8445 Square Feet MLS# 214027178

Extraordinary 3.93 acre estate built by Mosher Dolan and designed by Art-Harrison. Meticulous attention to details, custom-milled wood work/carpentry and 4 fireplaces. The gourmet granite kitchen with premium appliances accesses a blue stone terrace. All en suite bedrooms. A master retreat offers a stunning marble/mosaic shower, Bain Ultra Tub and private blue stone balcony. Walkout 4000+ sq. ft. lower level includes spacious family room, game area, full-service wet bar overlooking billiard space, 5th bedroom suite and exercise room with steam shower. 6+ car garage(s).

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MUNICIPAL Fifth Tavern getting ready to open A new Bloomfield Township restaurant, called 5th Tavern, is finishing the last touches on its renovation from a Mountain Jack’s to an upscale casual dining establishment in order to open around May 1.

5th Tavern, at 2262 S. Telegraph Road, north of Square Lake and across from Costco, is undergoing a complete renovation from a long abandoned Mountain Jack’s to a restaurant serving steaks, fresh seafood, pastas, chicken dishes, hamburgers, prime rib, “and a great selection of organic salads,” said coowner Jerry Sanchez.

Sanchez owns the restaurant with George Lucaj, who also own George’s Honey Tree in West Bloomfield. The new spot will be called 5th Tavern because it is their fifth establishment.

Sanchez said 5th Tavern can accommodate 240 diners in the dining room, with another 120 in an adjacent banquet facility, which has its own bar. In the center of the restaurant is the bar “with TVs,” Sanchez said. “It’s very open, but it feels separate.”

An outside patio will seat another 50 to 60 patrons.

The restaurant will be open for lunch and dinner daily, as well as a Sunday brunch that will feature its own carving station, a custom omelet station and a make-your-own crepe station.

Library contract up for voter approval Bloomfield Hills City Commissioners on Tuesday, April 8, unanimously approved an agreement with Birmingham’s Baldwin Library to continue the contract for library services for residents and adopted a resolution approving ballot language to place a millage to fund the contract before voters on the August ballot.

In November 2011, Bloomfield Hills residents approved a dedicated .39-mill library tax for a three-year contract for full library services. If approved by voters in August, the new millage would also be for a dedicated .39 mills, but for a six-year contract, with the same usage terms for residents. downtownpublications.com

New Kenning Park plan approved

By Lisa Brody

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irmingham City Commissioners unanimously approved a resolution to receive and file a master plan created for Kenning Park at their meeting on Monday, March 24, while acknowledging it could be several years before it will be implemented.

Lauren Wood, Birmingham Director of Public Services, reminded commissioners March 24 that the parks and recreation committee had begun creating the master plan for Kenning Park last summer after a need to redo the parking lot at the park necessitated a landscaping plan, and “then it dovetailed into a master plan for the whole park.”

The master plan for the entire park was created by Johnson Hill Land Ethics Studio in Ann Arbor following public forums in October and committee and public comments at the December 3 parks and recreation meeting, and was presented to the commission at the long-range planning session in January. The master plan offers a softball diamond, two little league baseball diamonds, a three-quarter mile exercise path, tennis domes, a skateboard park, police pistol range, snowmelt area, picnic area, playground, pavilion, restrooms and open spaces. Estimated construction costs for improving Kenning Park are $1.1 million.

Wood said the parking lot is moving forward, with a site plan and specs being readied. “We plan to do it in July, with bids let in May,” she said. “We expect the construction of the parking lot to take place in July and August.”

The parking lot has a budget of $500,000 from Birmingham’s fiscal year 2013-2014 budget.

Amid questions from confused commissioners, including Rackeline Hoff, who asked, “I’m confused at what we’re being asked to do – is this an idea? Is this a plan? I think Johnson Hill did a great job of incorporating all of the ideas. So when will the implementation be?”

Wood responded, “It’s not cast in stone. I don’t see any priority for a while. It depends on the parks board. It could be in three, four or five years, depending on the budget, uses, the community. It’s all wants and needs.”

Commissioner Mark Nickita hesitated in approving the plan. “This plan does not have fundamental features that I think are critical,” he said, noting there are no connections to the adjacent Rail District, no crosswalks, and “no way to get over berms to the pedestrian pathways.

I’m a little bit concerned that it’s a definitive plan because it’s not ready to be implemented. They’re very easily fixed.”

Commissioner Gordon Rinschler commented that “this is not number one on my priority list. There are parks that need to be developed, and this is a redevelopment, so people shouldn’t get too excited.”

After Wood assured them that they were approving the concept of the master plan for the park, commissioners unanimously approved it.

The arrangement has proved very popular with both residents and the library. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, there were 3,869 residents in the city.

As of the end of February 2014, 1,022 residents have registered at Baldwin Library, and as of the end of the 20122013 fiscal year, they checked out 20,376 items.

At the time of the initial contract, Baldwin Library said it would benefit from providing services to Bloomfield Hills as the revenue would allow the library to remain open more hours, retain more staff and provide greater services. The agreement reached between the two entities in June

2011 had Bloomfield Hills pay Baldwin $268,681 in the first year of the agreement, and in successive years, the rate increased by 5 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever was less.

“The general feeling is that everyone has seen value in the contract with Baldwin,” city manager Jay Cravens said.

Commissioner Sarah McClure expressed concern that residents should not be asked to vote on a millage request on an August ballot, saying it wasn’t the right thing to do.

“It should be in November,” she said.

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disagreed, noting that the November election would be an option for a three-year renewal, if the August ballot was rejected by voters.

The commissioners then voted unanimously to place the millage request on the August election.

Palladium theater changes operator

By Lisa Brody

The Palladium 12 theater, an iconic part of downtown Birmingham, changed hands on Thursday, April 24, as Uptown Entertainment ceased its operations of the movie theater and Cloud Nine Theater Partners took over.

The change in theater operators is in conjunction with the sale of the Palladium Building to new owners, The Palladium of Birmingham, L.L.C., part of the AF Jonna Company. As part of the ownership change, Uptown Entertainment sold its ownership interest in the theater, effective Wednesday, April 23.

“Uptown Entertainment is very proud to have played a role in the developing and operating of the Palladium 12, and we wish the new building owner and theater operator much success in the future,” said Barb Zanetti, senior director of business operations at Uptown Entertainment.

Cloud Nine Theaters own and operate the Maple Theater in Bloomfield Township. “Cloud Nine Theater Partners is very excited to become part of the Birmingham community and to continue the tradition of offering an excellent entertainment experience in a vibrant downtown atmosphere,” said Jon Goldstein, managing partner.

Goldstein said that Palladium 12 will continue to offer mainstream blockbuster movies, including the new Spiderman movie next weekend, unlike the Maple, which offers more art house films. “We’re looking forward to having a fun summer,” he said.

Currently, he has a short term deal with Jonna, “at least through the summer. I have a short term deal until we get a long-term deal,” he said. He noted there will be five or six changes in the local theater market, including a new theater opening at Maple and Livernois in Troy, although he said it’s unknown how those changes will impact the current market.

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om Daguanno was looking for good suits for his wedding when he and his friend Max Schmidt decided to try their hand at making their own custom suits. The experiment ended up as the start of one of Detroit’s custom-men’s tailors, known as 1701 Bespoke.

“We formed the company in late 2012, but we didn’t take off until last year,” Daguanno said. “I got married in May, and the suits for the wedding were kind of our test. Then we started building a client base, and we got the pop-up shop in October. That’s when things really picked up.”

The initial suits at the wedding were a hit, and word of the new business started to spread among friends. Soon in-office and home fittings started, which led to a chance meeting with a client who happened to work for Quicken Loans and knew someone at Bedrock Real Estate Services, who then worked with Tom and his now-business partner Schmidt. The effort led to a pop-up shop in Detroit’s First National Building, which was supposed to be a six day endeavor. It ended up lasting six months. Since then, business has been exploding, with a client base expanding from 20 to more than 120.

Since the wedding, Daguanno has moved from the Grosse Pointe area to Birmingham, and the 200-square-foot pop-up shop has relocated to a more permanent location at the Chrysler House at 719 Griswold. The formation and transformation of the company is somewhat surprising for the duo, neither of whom have a background in clothing. Tom does the majority of clothing and web design for the business, while Max focuses on

the business side.

“Good design is good design, it doesn’t matter where you apply it, as long as you have a knack for it,” Daguanno said.

In terms of style, Daguanno said the customers are the real designers.

“They all have their own style,” he said. “We can do modern, trim-fitting suits or contemporary suits that are more full. We have done both. We want to do what is appropriate and what is right for our customer’s body type.

“Being where we are, the majority of what we do are business suits.

Occasionally, we get a guy who wants a wild jacket. People here like to play it a little more safe, which we are happy to do. The majority of our clients are beginning their path toward a better wardrobe. We always suggest starting with a navy blue, charcoal and gray (suit), then gradually building.”

Once made, 1701 Bespoke works with The Birmingham Tailor to do final alterations and finish the suit.

“We are constantly on the lookout for space in Birmingham,” Daguanno said. “Ali, The Birmingham Tailor, is one of our mentors. He has helped us a lot in understanding construction and fit. He’s been a huge help. We have been looking for spaces around him. He loves the quality of our work, and vice versa. We are looking for kind of a satellite location to take fittings in Birmingham.

“I’ve been here three years, and I love it.”

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ome jobs just require you to have a thick skin. “The first job I got, I got fired,” sports columnist Pat Caputo said about his venture into journalism. “A guy told me I was terrible. I was at a 6,000-paper daily, and he sent me home. I had to move into the house.”

From Michigan State University to Three Rivers, then back to his family’s home in Beverly Hills, where Caputo attended Groves High School. And then sports came to save him, again.

“I went to the Oakland Press, and they said they needed someone to answer the phones in sports.”

Starting with no pay, Caputo left the newsies behind and took as many hours as he could in the sports department. In 1998, he started covering the Detroit Tigers, then the Lions. In 2002, he was given his own column at the paper. Then there is his love for radio work.

“They said, ‘you sound like some guy sitting on a bar stool talking about sports,’” Caputo said about his first venture into radio.

Today, Caputo continues to write for the Oakland Press, and has a radio show weeknights and weekends on 97.1 FM The Ticket, and he appears regularly on FOX 2 on “SportsWorks.” His work has earned him several writing awards from the Michigan Associated Press, the Michigan Press Association and others.

“I work hard because I appreciate what I have,” he said. “Today, I worked since I got up and I’ll work until I go to bed. I don’t complain about it.”

Caputo credits much of his success and work ethic to sports, and those who worked in the field that helped him after moving to Birmingham when he was 9 years old.

“I was a terrible student in high school. I barely graduated. Sports was my savior,” Caputo said. “I got in a lot of trouble when I was a kid in high school. I moved from St. Clair Shores. My mother died before I knew her, so it was a bad time. Sports kind of saved me.”

At Groves, Caputo played football and baseball. It would be where he would meet head baseball coach Jim Crosby, who Caputo credits with having the patience to guide him in his high school years.

“I have been surrounded by some good people,” he said. “I got a lot more benefit from being their friend then they did from me.”

Caputo also credits his relationships with some of the Tigers’ management in helping him during his early years at The Oakland Press.

“I knew Sparky Anderson well, and Bill Lajoie, and he remembered me,” Caputo said. “That gave me a bit more of an in with him. (Lajoie) was nicer to me than some others. He took me under his wing and taught me a lot about baseball. I was fortunate that when I started covering the Tigers, I learned a lot from people who knew the game really well. I love sports, and to write about it and make it such a part of my life is something I appreciate and love.”

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BUSINESS MATTERS Restaurant receives award The Big Rock Chophouse, 245 S. Eton Street in Birmingham, was one of only a dozen restaurants in the nation to receive an Achievement of Excellence Award from the American Culinary Federation at a recent conference in St. Louis. The award, which recognizes foodservice establishments that exemplify a commitment to excellence, is available only to those who have been in operation for at least five consecutive years and recognized as a leader in the industry. Business nominated for the award must be so by an American Culinary Federation chapter, member or individual in the foodservice profession. Big Rock Chophouse is located in the former Birmingham Grand Trunk and Western Railroad Depot, which was closed in 1978. The building was empty until 1984 when it was restored and converted into a signature restaurant by Norman and Bonnie LePage, receiving the name Norman’s Eton Street Station. In 1997, the restaurant was transformed into Big Rock Chophouse. “The success of our property is credited to our entire team, both in the kitchen and the front of the house, who are all amazing people doing what we love,” Norman LePage said.

African American salon A new salon specializing in African American hair will be open for business this May when Ron Kristian Hair Studio opens its doors at 191 N. Old Woodward, Suite 100, in Birmingham. Ron Kristian, who previously worked at the now closed Madison Blu Salon, said his salon is a unique, upscale salon for the city, which currently doesn’t have any other businesses catering to African American customers. Kristian brings more than 20 years of hair experience to the niche business, which will be offering clients products from Oribe.

The salon will focus on hair care and treatment.

Bridal salon moves Bridal Couture, which has been located at 34000 N. Old Woodward, Birmingham, will be relocating on May 1 to a new salon at 912 S. Old Woodward. Owner Amy Phlod, who purchased the business in November of 2007, said the new spot will offer additional space that is being renovated and updated to better reflect the bridal business. The store downtownpublications.com

offers designer gowns and contemporary bridal wear, as well as a team of bridal consultants to help customers. “We are going to have three separate salons inside, so the bridesmaids, bride and alterations will be in separate salons to make it less congested,” she said. “It has a lot of light, high ceilings and lots of open space.”

Lawyer opens office Maya Marshall, 801 S. Adams, Suite 204, in Birmingham, has opened a new law office where she will focus on business formation and consulting, estate planning, probate and family law. Marshall, originally from Flint, started her personal practice in Birmingham because she said she loves the area and believes it will be a great place to start a practice.

Wine store opens Wine connoisseurs and those who are still learning about wine have a new shop for their needs at Birmingham Wine, 588 N. Old Woodward in Birmingham. The business, which is located in the former Merwin’s Antiques Gallery space, was opened in late April by Ed Bosse. “We have a lot of inexpensive wines, but we also have a lot of fine burgundies, Bordeaux and Italian wines,” said Bosse, who previously owned Simply Wine in Birmingham, Ferndale and Northville. “Wines go by price and points, and we have a number of 95 to 100-point wines, which go for $400 to $500. We also have some smaller production wines.” Bosse, a former copywriter and teacher, said he enjoys educating customers on the finer points of wine, but does so in a nonpretentious way without using a lot of “wine gibberish” in his speech. “We use simple language, so people aren’t disoriented,” he said. “When they come here, they find they aren’t treated like they are dumb, and they seem to understand it and appreciate it when it’s simple, even in expensive wines.” Bosse said he chose the store’s location for its proximity to downtown Birmingham and the Birmingham Farmer’s Market, which he said brings in many customers during the warmer months of the year.

“People that shop there are generally wine people, as well,” he said.

New financial center Bloomfield Hills resident Sean Ritchlin may have just opened his

new call center and marketing firm for mutual funds, Rock Harbor, at 770 S. Adams in Birmingham, but he already has plans to expand the business. “We have three people on staff, currently,” he said. “We want 10 by the end of the year, which won’t be an easy task. We are hoping to grow efficiently, and want to make sure we do things right and get good people on board.” Ritchlin, who previously worked as a wholesaler for New York-based AXA Distributors, said he decided to start his own financial business and believed Birmingham would be a good place to recruit talent. He said the business, which will use the call center to partner with several mutual fund companies to operate in one location, is partly based on the model used by Troy-based United Wholesale Mortgage. He said the company is currently building relationships with various money management firms.

Law firm opens Attorney Donald Katz has opened a new office of Donald Katz Law PLLC Attorneys and Counselors at 390 Park Street, Suite 222, in Birmingham. The firm specializes in business law, including asset protection planning, commercial financing, tax planning, corporate law, franchise law, real estate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, dispute resolution, copyright and trademarks, estate planning and probate and trust administration. Katz, who previously worked as counsel for the $9 billion Combat Systems Tax Group at General Dynamics Corp., said the firm brings a fresh perspective to mid-size business clients. “Clients find our advice creative but practical,” he said. In addition to representing businesses and investors, the firm offers a variety of investment advice. “Beyond legal services, we provide investment advice and assist in resolving disputes with customers or suppliers without litigation,” Katz said. “We understand that one of the most valuable assets a business has is its relationships, and we help businesses sustain and grow them.”

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PLACES TO EAT The Places To Eat for Downtown is a quick reference source to establishments offering a place for dining, either breakfast, lunch or dinner. The complete Places To Eat is available at downtownpublications.com and in an optimized format for your smart phone (downtownpublications.com/mobile), where you can actually map out locations and automatically dial a restaurant from our Places To Eat.

Andiamo: Italian. Lunch & Dinner, daily.

Reservations. Liquor. 6676 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Township, 48301.

248.865.9300.

Bagger Dave's Legendary Burger Tavern: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor. 6608 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Township, 48301.

248.792.3579 Bangkok Thai Bistro: Thai. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 42805 Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Township, 48304.

248.499.6867.

Bella Piatti: Italian. Lunch & Dinner, Tuesday-Saturday. Reservations. Liquor.

167 Townsend Street, Birmingham, 48009. 248.494.7110.

Beyond Juice: Contemporary. Breakfast & Lunch daily; Dinner, Monday-Saturday. No reservations. 270 West Maple Avenue, Birmingham, 48009. 248.594.7078.

Big Rock Chophouse: American. Lunch & Dinner, Monday-Saturday. Reservations.

Liquor.

245 South Eaton Street, Birmingham, 48009. 248.647.7774.

Birmingham Sushi Cafe: Japanese. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. 377 Hamilton Row, Birmingham, 48009.

248.593.8880.

Bistro Joe’s Kitchen: Global. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Sunday brunch. Liquor Reservations. 34244 Woodward Ave., Birmingham, 48009. 248.594.0984 Bloomfield Deli: Deli. Breakfast & Lunch, Monday-Friday. No reservations. 71 W. Long Lake Road, Bloomfield Hills, 48304.

248.645.6879.

Brooklyn Pizza: Pizza. Lunch & Dinner, daily.

No reservations. 111 Henrietta Street, Birmingham, 48009. 248.258.6690.

Café ML: New American. Dinner, daily.

Alcohol. Call ahead. 3607 W. Maple Road, Bloomfield Township.

248.642.4000.

Cafe Via: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily.

Reservations. Liquor. 310 East Maple Avenue, Birmingham, 48009.

248.644.8800 Cameron’s Steakhouse: American.

Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 115 Willits Street, Birmingham, 48009.

248.723.1700.

China Village: Chinese. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. 1655 Opdyke, Bloomfield Hills, 48304. 248.758.1221.

Churchill's Bistro & Cigar Bar: Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor.

116 S. Old Woodward Avenue, Birmingham, 48009. 248.647.4555.

Cityscape Deli: Deli. Lunch & Dinner, Monday-Saturday. No reservations. Beer.

877 W. Long Lake Road, Bloomfield Hills, 48302. 248.540.7220.

Commonwealth: American. Breakfast & Lunch, daily. No reservations. 300 Hamilton Row, Birmingham, 48009. 248.792.9766.

Cosi: American. Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Beer & wine. 101 N. Old Woodward Avenue, Birmingham, 48009. 248.203.9200.

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Deli Unique of Bloomfield Hills: Deli.

Breakfast & Lunch, daily. No reservations. 39495 Woodward Avenue, Bloomfield Hills, 48304. 248.646.7923.

Dick O’Dow’s: Irish. Lunch & Dinner, daily.

Reservations. Liquor. 160 West Maple Avenue, Birmingham, 48009.

248.642.1135.

Eddie Merlot's: Steak & seafood. Dinner, daily. Alcohol. Reservations. 37000 Woodward Avenue, Bloomfield Hills, 48304. 248.712.4095.

Einstein Bros. Bagels: Deli. Breakfast & Lunch, daily. No reservations. 176 South Old Woodward Avenue, Birmingham, 48009. 248.594.9888. Also 4089 West Maple Road, Bloomfield Hills, 48301.

248.258.9939.

Elie’s Mediterranean Cuisine: Mediterranean. Lunch & Dinner, MondaySaturday. No reservations. Liquor. 263 Pierce Street, Birmingham, 48009.

248.647.2420.

Embers Deli & Restaurant: Deli. Breakfast & Lunch, daily. Dinner, Monday-Friday. No reservations. 3598 West Maple Road, Bloomfield Hills, 48301. 248.645.1033.

Flemings Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar: American. Dinner, daily. Reservations.

Liquor. 323 N. Old Woodward Avenue, Birmingham, 48009. 248.723.0134.

Forest Grill: American. Lunch, MondayFriday; Dinner, Monday-Saturday.

Reservations. Liquor. 735 Forest Avenue, Birmingham, 48009. 248.258.9400.

Fuddrucker’s: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No Reservations. Beer & wine.

42757 Woodward Avenue, Bloomfield Township, 48302. 248.333.2400.

Greek Island Coney Restaurant: Greek.

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 221 Hamilton Row, Birmingham, 48009. 248.646.1222.

Griffin Claw Brewing Company: American.

Liquor. Dinner, Tuesday-Friday, Lunch & Dinner, Saturday and Sunday. 575 S. Eton Street, Birmingham. 248.712.4050.

Hogan’s Restaurant: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 6450 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Hills, 48301.

248.626.1800.

Honey Tree Grille: Greek/American.

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, daily. No reservations. 3633 W. Maple Rd, Bloomfield, MI 48301. 248.203.9111.

Hunter House Hamburgers: American.

Breakfast, Monday-Saturday; Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 35075 Woodward Avenue, Birmingham, 48009.

248.646.7121.

Hyde Park Prime Steakhouse: American.

Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 201 S. Old Woodward, Birmingham, 48009.

248.594.4369.

IHOP: American. Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 2187 S. Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301. 248.333.7522.

Kerby’s Koney Island: American.

Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 2160 N. Woodward Avenue, Bloomfield Hills, 48304.

248.333.1166.

La Marsa: Mediterranean. Lunch & dinner daily. Reservations. 43259 Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Hills, 48302.

248.858.5800.

Leo’s Coney Island: American. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations.

154 S. Old Woodward Avenue, Birmingham, 48009. 248.593.9707.

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Also 6527 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Hills, 48301. 248.646.8568.

Little Daddy’s Parthenon: American.

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 39500 Woodward Avenue, Bloomfield Hills, 48301. 248.647.3400.

Luxe Bar & Grill: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily; Late Night, 9 p.m.-closing.

No reservations. Liquor. 525 N. Old Woodward Ave., Birmingham, 48009.

248.792.6051.

Market North End: Mediterranean. Lunch & Dinner, Tuesday-Sunday. No reservations. Liquor. 474 N. Old Woodward Avenue, Birmingham, 48009.

248.712.4953.

MEX Mexican Bistro & Tequila Bar: Mexican. Lunch, Monday-Friday, Dinner, daily. Liquor. 6675 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Township, 48301.

248.723.0800.

Mitchell’s Fish Market: Seafood. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 117 Willits Street, Birmingham, 48009.

248.646.3663.

Mountain King: Chinese. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 469 South Old Woodward Avenue, Birmingham, 48009.

248.644.2913.

New Bangkok Thai Bistro: Thai. Breakfast, Monday-Thursday; Lunch, MondayFriday; Dinner, daily. No reservations.

183 North Old Woodward Avenue, Birmingham, 48009. 248.644.2181.

Nippon Sushi Bar: Japanese. Lunch & Dinner daily. No reservations. 2079 S. Telegraph, Bloomfield Township, 48302. 248.481.9581.

Olga’s Kitchen: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Also 2075 S. Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Hills, 48302. 248.451.0500.

Original Pancake House: American.

Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 33703 South Woodward Avenue, Birmingham, 48009.

248.642.5775.

Panera Bread: Deli. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 100 North Old Woodward Avenue, Birmingham, 48009. 248.203.7966.

Also 2125 S. Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Hills, 48302. 248.253.9877.

Peabody’s: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 34965 Woodward Avenue, Birmingham, 48009.

248.644.5222.

Phoenicia: Middle Eastern. Lunch, Monday-Friday; Dinner, daily.

Reservations. Liquor. 588 South Old Woodward Avenue, Birmingham, 48009.

248.644.3122.

Pita Cafe: Middle Eastern. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 239 North Old Woodward Avenue, Birmingham, 48009.

248.645.6999.

Qdoba: Mexican. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 795 East Maple Avenue, Birmingham, 48009. 248.988.8941.

Also 42967 Woodward Avenue, Bloomfield Township, 48304.

248.874.1876 Roadside B & G: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor.

1727 S. Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Hills, 48302. 248.858.7270.

Rojo Mexican Bistro: Mexican. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 250 Merrill Street, Birmingham, 48009.

248.792.6200.

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Salvatore Scallopini: Italian. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Beer & Wine. 505 North Old Woodward Avenue, Birmingham, 48009. 248.644.8977.

Sanders: American. Lunch, daily. No reservations. 167 N. Old Woodward, Birmingham, 48009. 248.594.3215.

Social Kitchen & Bar: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations, parties of 5 or more. Liquor. 225 E. Maple Road, Birmingham, 48009. 248.594.4200.

Stacked Deli: Deli. Breakfast & Lunch, Monday-Saturday. Delivery available. No reservations. 233 North Old Woodward, Birmingham, 48009. 248.593.5300.

Steve’s Deli: Deli. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 6646 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield, 48301.

248.932.0800.

Streetside Seafood: Seafood. Lunch, Monday-Friday; Dinner, daily.

Reservations. Liquor. 273 Pierce Street, Birmingham, 48009. 248.645.9123.

Sushi Hana: Japanese. Lunch, MondayFriday; Dinner, Monday-Saturday.

Reservations. 42656 Woodward Avenue, Bloomfield Hills, 48304. 248.333.3887.

Sy Thai Cafe: Thai. Lunch & Dinner, daily.

No reservations. 315 Hamilton Row, Birmingham, 48009. 248.258.9830.

Tallulah Wine Bar and Bistro: American.

Dinner. Monday-Saturday. Sunday brunch. Reservations. Liquor. 55 S. Bates Street, Birmingham, 48009.

248.731.7066.

The Corner Bar: American. Dinner.

Wednesday-Saturday. Reservations.

Liquor. 100 Townsend Street, Birmingham, 48009. 248.647.2958.

The Bird & The Bread: Brasserie. Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations. Liquor. 210 S. Old Woodard, Birmingham, 48009.

248.203.6600.

The Gallery Restaurant: American.

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 6683 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Hills, 48301. 248.851.0313.

The Moose Preserve Bar & Grill: American. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor. 2395 S. Woodward Avenue, Bloomfield Hills, 48302. 248.858.7688.

The Rugby Grille: American. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. Reservations.

Liquor. 100 Townsend Street, Birmingham, 48009. 248.642.5999.

The Stand: Euro-American. Dinner, Monday-Saturday. Reservations. Liquor.

34977 Woodward, Birmingham, 48009.

248.220.4237.

Toast: American. Breakfast & Lunch, daily; Dinner, Monday-Saturday. Reservations.

Liquor. 203 Pierce Street, Birmingham, 48009. 248.258.6278.

Touch of India: Indian. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. 297 E. Maple Road, Birmingham, 48009.

248.593.7881.

Townhouse: American. Brunch, Saturday, Sunday. Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations. Liquor. 180 Pierce Street, Birmingham, 48009. 248.792.5241.

Village Coney Island: American. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, daily. No reservations.

653 S. Adams. Birmingham, 48009.

248.593.7964.

Whistle Stop Diner: American. Breakfast & Lunch, daily; No reservations. 501 S. Eton Street, Birmingham, 48009.

248.566.3566

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Braised short rib, sweet potato In a space that could easily be puree, red onion and shaved overwhelming and austere, there parmesan made up the Meat and is instead warmth, clean lines and Potatoes. The combination of flacomfort in an eatery that is being vors had such potential but the billed as family-friendly. Even braise was lost to dryness when more exciting is the “birds-eye added pre-bake rather than postview” of Old Woodward from the bake. The Hash and Egg had delichic and open outdoor seating that ciously salty smoked duck sausage, is nestled in the front corner of the potato cream, tomato tapenade and restaurant. Sure to bring in the overly cooked duck egg with nary a “who’s who” of Birmingham, it is hint of whites, rather dry ends and also a best bet for some great peoover-cooked yolk. ple watching (if summer ever gets In awe of the space, pleased by here). the service and excited for more, No new eatery is complete we glided into entrees. Seared Sea without a list of house-made libaScallops first with risotto milanese, tions. The Bird & The Bread has tomato confit and lobster vinaiwisely kept it short but sweet with grette. Cooked perfectly and of epic eight house drinks. Being non-dissize, the sweet flavors harmonized criminate in our love of spirits, we with the acid of the tomatoes and chose a gin drink, a vodka drink, a the creaminess of the risotto. Lamb whiskey drink, a tequila drink (cue rope sausage followed with perfectChumbawamba). ly whipped potatoes, a hint of fenThe Drick’s Elixir (gin, cucumnel and beautifully caramelized ber, lemon, pomegranate, mint and onion had us wanting for more. The egg whites); the Monks on Holiday Mitten Burger was cooked to a (Vodka, Chartreuse, Coconut Milk, spot-on medium rare and with lemon, lime and ginger beer); the brie, cherry aioli, bacon jam and Woodwards Maple (Sazerac Rye, spicy greens balanced texture, flaAperol, Maple Syrup, Black Walnut vor and spice to a tee.

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SOCIAL LIGHTS/SALLY GERAK Eton Academy’s Gala and Auction Lots of good news was announced during the dinner program at Eton Academy’s big fundraiser. Eton senior Kirsten Olson, who has received full scholarship offers from four Michigan universities and has accepted one from Eastern Michigan University, told how “… (at Eton), I got friends and my life back... and my parents got their daughter back (from Sally Gerak depression).” She also got a standing ovation from the crowd of 315 school supporters when she concluded, “Because of Eton the only thing I can’t do is what I haven’t yet tried to do.” Last year’s senior speaker Julian VanHellemont announced that she got a 3.0 GPA her first semester at Michigan State University. Board president Jeff Zanetti announced that EA is acquiring, with vigorous insistence from Pat Hartmann, the former St. Coleman’s church next door and that Pat and Jan Hartmann are honorary chairs of the capital campaign to turn it into a center to serve more students who learn differently. Alum parent Team Detroit’s Marc LeNeve introduced a new video his company made that rebrands the school and showcases how to be a learner.

But the most heartwarming announcement came in two parts from event chair Mitzi Martin and her son Patrick. Mitzi first tearfully described her son’s behavior before he enrolled at Eton a year ago. Then Patrick was introduced. “…I used to be so angry and mean to my mom when I got home from school.

Now I’m just happy,” he said. Mitzi had also praise for her committee. It embraced the event theme “Opening Doors…Opening Minds” and offered a silent auction featuring handsome art created by Eton students, a savory dinner by Bacco Ristorante, and a live auction conducted by Dan Stall in which the top bid ($10,000) was for a Super Bowl XLIX package. When the bidding concluded it brought the event net proceeds to $301,000.

Jack Cohen, EA ’86, noted that his mother Susie had been the first auction chair and that “...it’s so beautiful to see how this school has evolved.”

DSO’s Classical Roots Celebration The 36th annual Classical Roots Concert began, like all its predecessors, with the Brazeal Dennard Chorale singing the uplifting “Lift Ev’ry Voice.” And then soprano Kathleen Battle joined the singers, the musicians, conductor Leonard Slatkin and narrator Daniel Washington on stage. What followed was an unforgettable experience. Her glorious singing of the program of traditional Negro spirituals evoked such observations as, “She sounds like an angel.” The audience of 2,000 included the 300 supporters of the 14th annual Classical Roots Celebration ($175 & $600) chaired by Janice Cosby Bridges and Ellen Hill Zeringue and coordinated by Anne Wilzack.

They arrived early for socializing, a strolling dinner and a salute to event pioneers Dr. Willis Patterson and Dr. Robert Lewis.

Most stayed for the afterglow that included dessert and dancing. Even Battle joined the post concert scene. Thanks also to sponsors like J.P.Morgan CHASE, the Stanley Frankels, Phillip Fishers and Dr. William Pickard, the evening raised $185,000 to increase opportunities for African Americans in classical music.

Variety’s SHINE for FAR/Bloomfield SCAMP The heartwarming fashion event that Ruthie Seltzer and Laura Bosart chaired in the Somerset South Rotunda for Variety’s SHINE for FAR Conservatory and Bloomfield SCAMP attracted a standing room crowd of 175 enthusiastic fans ($35 & up tickets) of the models. And did they ever shine! Most of the 23 had first stopped at sponsor Felicia’s salon to get glamorous for their runway appearance in outfits from Somerset stores. downtownpublications.com

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And the smiles were big at the end of the fashion parade when it was announced that all the models could keep their outfits. The event raised $10,000 for the summer camp programs of FAR Conservatory and SCAMP, which serve young people with disabilities.

Felicia Palazzolo-Shaw and Kathy Broock Ballard are chairing Variety’s A Star Is Born Friday night, May 2, at Emagine Royal Oak. It will induct legendary actress Elaine Stritch into Variety’s Celebrity Hall of Fame which is housed at Emagine.

Stritch, who was born in Detroit in 1925, made Birmingham her home last spring. Her acclaimed new documentary, “Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me,” premiered last month in NYC, is showing in theaters around the country and available in HD on VOD. For tickets ($150, $250, $350) call Variety, The Children’s Charity at (248) 2585511.

JVS’s Trade Secrets The sixth annual Women to Work program fundraiser attracted a record crowd of 400 to Knollwood Country Club to hear banking executive and civic leader Sandy Pierce “tell her story.” Before dinner they socialized, sipped and shopped the exhibit of raffle prizes, buying $8,500 worth of tickets. The baked salmon dinner selected by event co-chairs Cheryl Margolis, Shayna Silverman and Mindi Fynke was a succulent prelude to the program emceed by WXYZ’s Glenda Lewis. It first saluted program honoree Myriam Cohen for her successful transition from stay-at-home mom for 24 years back to the work force following a divorce.

Then Pierce wowed the crowd with her animated account of being the youngest of 10 children who lived above the Detroit bar her parents owned and how the Catholic school uniform she wore helped disguise the family’s hardscrapple life. With a lot of help from that family, she was the first member to go to college, working as a bank teller while attending WSU. She called out by name an early bank associate who told her she that she was too nice to succeed. But she declared that even though she had kept her background a secret, she knows that she “…succeeded because of that background and not in spite of it.” The vivacious, happily married mother of three also told the audience “...remember everybody you meet will know something you don’t know so learn it…(and)…don’t let (anyone) minimize you.” When the standing ovation faded she smiled and announced, “I’m going to Florida 05.14

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ORT’s Trends with Friends Nadine Farbman, Michelle Blau and Susan Gordon chaired the girls night out fundraiser at Neiman Marcus for ORT – “the world’s largest, non-governmental educational organization.” Nearly 110 guests socialized, shopped, bought $2,700 worth of raffle tickets, checked out models posed in outfits styled by the co-chairs plus Jessica Kwartowitz, Lizzy Fields, Marlo Scott and Lauren Weinberg, and snacked on server-passed Cutting Edge Cuisine savories and sweets.

Before the superb show of new designer looks, ORT Michigan region director Nicole Miller gave a brief update on ORT activities in the Ukraine and Israel. Miller also pitched ORT’s upcoming events - WINGO, April 30th at Congregation Beth Ahm, Rub-a-Dub on Aug. 13 at Franklin Hills Country Club, and an October mission to Israel. The springfocused evening raised nearly $30,000 and was a welcome respite from the cold.

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The Community House Annual Gala A sold out crowd of 235 ($250-tickets) convened at the Community House to salute Grand Honoree Stephen Polk and raise money for the TCH’s Children and Family Outreach Programs. Camille Jayne and Kathie Ninneman co-chaired the Annual Gala that salutes family business owners of integrity and community consciousness. Polk qualifies in spades. When the noted philanthropist found the right buyer last June for R.L. Polk & Co., founded by his greatgrandfather 140-plus years ago, he had been the fourth Polk to lead it.

Previous Annual Gala Grand Honorees are Dave Trott and Linda Orlans, both of whom were at the party. It also honored Pillars of Vibrancy: for education, Arlyce Seibert, Ann Marie Lesniak and Stephanie Bergeron; for culture, James and Kevin Cristbrook, Steven Tapper and Gregg Watkins; for wellness, Kate and Robb Harper, Jeff Imerman and Dr. Scott Tyler. A program followed the cocktail reception, silent auction and dinner accompanied by a BBSO cello and violin duet. It featured the presentation of 05.14

SOCIAL LIGHTS/SALLY GERAK the award to Polk, his modest acceptance and a keynote speech by Josh Linkner, whose advocacy for entrepreneurism was persuasive. Thanks to generous sponsors like Bank of Birmingham, Dykema, Valenti Capiital, Bobbi & Stephen Polk, Greenleaf Trust and others, the event raised $197,000.

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Brother Rice Irish Nite Auction The 37th annual Irish Nite Auction brought the largest-ever crowd (525) of revelers to the school to eat, drink and spend money to support the high school. Alumni loyalty was evident not only in the guest list but also the auction catalog. In fact, trips donated and hosted by alums – one to NYC and one to Park City, Utah – brought the highest bids of the live auction ($4,000 each). The beef tenderloin, whitefish cakes and pulled pork sliders at the Holiday Market-catered buffet were delicious and might explain why Holiday’s donated Smoke House BBQ party for 100 brought $3,750 during the live auction. The fundraiser was coordinated by Michelle Lievois and Susan Reid with honorary chairman duties generously filled by the Schuyler Hamills and Ken Allessis.

And because legendary football coach Al Fracassa is retiring, they had him sign footballs and toss them to eager bidders, raising another $12,000. This brought the event total to an estimated all time high net of $275,000.

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DSO Volunteer Council’s Celebrity At the Detroit Athletic Club, 75 guests (at $75, $115, $200) applauded renowned Swedish conductor and clarinetist Martin Fröst following his interesting post-lunch Q & A with DSO CEO Anne Parsons and his soaring rendition of a clarinet selection.

Before dining, many guests sipped an Absolutely Frosty, a cocktail named in the musician’s honor and hosted by event chair Ginny Lundquist’s husband Eric, who also plays the clarinet.

Past VC president Debra Partrich pitched the series of Musical Feasts which offers fine dining and music hosted by DSO lovers. Many of them are sold out, but spaces are still available at the Days of Summer brunch hosted by Brenda and Howard Rosenberg Saturday, May 24; Springtime Brunch hosted by Keith Pomeroy and Sonia Carrero Sunday, May 31; and Farm to Fork dinner hosted by Christine and Dave Provost Friday, July 18. For information, call (313) 576-5154.

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Christ Child Society Woman of the Year Hall & Hunter Realtors Madelon Ward, Pam Gray, Shondell Patterson, Dorothy Perotta, Amy Zimmer and Kathleen Jardine conspired with Christ Child Society president Elaine Szot and other members to surprise their colleague Lanie Hardy Cosgrove with the news that she had been selected the society’s Woman of the Year. They did so at a late morning champagne toast in the H&H Birmingham offices and included Lanie’s parents and sister Leslie, who is Lanie’s real estate sidekick.

The happy reveal was especially nostalgic for Lanie’s mother Pat Hardy, who received the same honor in 1996.

The actual award, which is given for extraordinary dedication to the society mission, will be presented at the group’s popular spring pour les enfants luncheon and boutique Friday, May 9 at Pine Lake Country Club.

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Winning Futures Tigers Opening Day Party More than 400 supporters of the nonprofit that inspires and prepares at-risk youth for success spent at least part of opening day at Winning Futures’ celebration at the Gem Theatre. They devoured food and drinks while watching the game on large screen TVs. Thanks also to sponsors, the happy day raised more than $32,000 for Winning Futures’ mentoring programs and scholarships. For more information about the Crain’s 2013 Best-Managed Nonprofit, got to www.WinningFutures.org Project 1’s Who’s Your Bartender The scene at Dick O’Dow’s the week following St. Patrick’s Day was like déjà vu. More than 500 (at $10 each) squeezed into the iconic Birmingham pub to lend support to Project 1, a totally volunteer non-profit which donates all net proceeds directly to those in need. Who’s Your Bartender? was coordinated by Linda Krause, Kelley LaFontaine, Laura Beckeman, Kirsten Mumma and Jerry Hall. It featured 15 good sport bartenders competing for donations (sales and tips) for a charity of their choice and for project 1. The top three – Kelley Kennedy for the Bright Pink Foundation, Stacey Kives for Humble Design, and Ryan LaFontaine for Leukemia and Lymphoma – got to direct 50 percent of their take to their charity. Also in the pub’s back room, for a donation, Amy Ordona was sliding a Key Lime Pie shot down an icy 05.14

luge into your mouth. The fun evening netted more than $37,000 to make a difference one person, one family, one cause at a time. Check it out at www.project1cares.org.

Beyond Basics’ Women Coming Together Many of the 150 Beyond Basics supporters who attended the benefit Women Coming Together for Children Luncheon at the Colony Club were seeing the historic building for the first time. After they sipped mimosas, checked out a silent auction and settled in the ballroom, the planners gave a nod to the room’s elegance by having a student ambassador escort each of the honorees into the ballroom as emcee Ch. 7’s Vic Faust intoned their names: Mary Callaghan Lynch, whose Opera on Wheels has been performing at BB partner schools for seven years; Detroit City Councilwoman Saunteel Jenkins; Charles Wright Museum’s Juanita Moore; the THAW Fund’s Susan Sherer; and motherdaughter volunteer team Norma Olsen and Susan Sohn.

The latter duo has mentored students for three years and considers the once a week experience, according to Olsen, “The best time of my life.” Event honorary cochairs Vivian Pickard and Linda Orlans and BB cofounder Dr. Joanne Wagerson, confined to a wheelchair by her by battle with ALS, were also honored.

Keynote speaker – Detroit native, actress/author, Thirkell Elementary School alum Denise Nichols – was chosen, BB co-founder Pam Good explained, because she contacted Good following the Dateline TV show that had featured BB’s successful mentoring program at Thirkell.

She spoke about the significance of her early school years at Thirkill, noting that “…knowledge is power, even for a seven-year-old,” and the hard work required transitioning from being an actress to being an author. “Love of learning can get you through,” she concluded. The luncheon event raised $55,000, including pledges to sponsor a student ($300 each). The next BB fundraiser - the annual Coming Together for Children Gala - will take place on Friday, May 16, at The Henry Ford’s Lovett Hall.

Gleaners’ Women’s Power Events For the 21st annual Women’s Power Breakfast benefiting Gleaners Community Food Bank the planners added a new event this year – a Power Happy Hour. It was chaired by Dawn Rassel and Karen Mazo and attracted 151 ($150-ticket) people to the loft at Northern Lakes Seafood Restaurant in the Met Hotel in Troy. Because it enabled many to attend who could not work the traditional breakfast into their schedules, it was definitely “an idea whose time had come.” Gleaners’ new CEO Gerry Brisson, sponsor Butzel Long’s Dick Rassel, and event founder Dulcie Rosenfeld’s son Jim were in the handful of men who “crashed” the cocktail party that featured a silent auction ($3,000), yummy seafood sliders and lots of conversation. All paused to raise their glasses in a 21st birthday salute to the event directed by Butzel Long’s Angie Boufford and all took home a $21-gift certificate from the event host the Epicurean Group.

The breakfast the following week brought most of the 500-plus $120 & up-ticket holders to the Gleaners Detroit Distribution Center. It featured personal remarks on the “Seeing is Believing” theme by honorary chairs PNC’s Diana Reid, GM’s Lori Wingerter and Kroger’s Jayne Homco and guest speaker Maggie Steber. The prizewinning National Geographic photographer’s images of hunger crises around the world were especially moving. downtownpublications.com

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1. Dr. Joanne Wagerson of Bloomfield and Pam Good of Birmingham 2. Vivian Pickard (left) and Mary Callaghan Lynch of Bloomfield 3. Susan Sohn (left) and her mother Norma Olsen of Bloomfield 4. Event Linda Orlans (left) of Birmingham and Juanita Moore of Detroit 5. Katie Chambers (left) of Grosse Isle, Cathy Wiessenborn, Susan Sohn and Lisa Riley of Bloomfield and Diane Latshaw of Waterford 6. Mary Callaghan Lynch (left) of Bloomfield with Lynn Duffey of Milford and Donna Rhoads of Highland

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5. Joan Gehrke (left) of Grosse Pointe and Beth Gotthelf of Birmingham 6. Leslie Murphy (left) of Ann Arbor, Dick Rassel and Mary Jo Dawson of Bloomfield 7. Doreen Nied (left) of Shelby Twp. and Kim Brown of Bloomfield

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1. Heidi Brode (left) of Bloomfield and Katie Buchmann of Clarkston 2. Denita Banks-Sims (left) of Bloomfield, Steven and Donna Silk of Waterford and David and Elaine Feldman of Royal Oak 3. Will McDowell and Judge Qiana Denise Lillardof of Detroit 4. Bryan (left) and Vanessa Lancaster of Birmingham and David and Anessa Kramer of Bloomfield 5. Sujana (left) and Dipak Shah and Kevin and Carley McAbee of Birmingham 6. Kim Zazula (left) of Birmingham and Pat and Kate Nagy of Farmington Hills 7. Rob Shaya (left) and Ashley Lowe of Birmingham with Dave and Christine Lyon of Huntington Woods 8. Past Head of School Chuck Webster (left) of Indianapolis, IN and Upper School founder Dick Halsey of Interlochen

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HAVEN’s Lettuce Drink Wine Alexis Bogdanova-Hanna and Jarred Gild, Allison and Steve Kaplan, Monica and Matt Schwanitz, and Mary Ann and Bob Victor hosted a wine tasting at Scavolini by Cucina Moda to benefit HAVEN’s Garden Project and 75 people ($50 tickets) attended. They savored comestibles from Forte and wines from Western Market and listened to HAVEN president Beth Morrison’s brief remarks about the half-acre, organic garden. It’s located at HAVEN’s Pontiac residential program site and produces nearly two tons of produce each season. The wine event raised $6,000. The next HAVEN fundraiser is the inaugural Raise the Roof Gala which Lara Fetsco and Phillip and Nina Campbell are chairing Friday, June 6, at the Troy Marriott. It will honor HAVEN’s long history of serving victims of domestic violence while kicking off the celebration of construction of its new facility and new way of serving victims. For tickets ($500, $250, $150, $100-young professional; $50-Afterglow), go to www.havenoakland.org.

Alternatives For Girls Role Model Myra Moreland chaired Alternatives For Girls’ 25th annual Role Model Dinner. It attracted a sold out crowd of nearly 400 ($150 tickets) to The Fillmore for socializing, dining, auction bidding ($44,720 total) and, during the program emceed by Devin Scillian, hearing the inspiring, personal stories of role models Andra Rush and Amyre Makupson. The event also featured keynote speaker GM’s Grace Lieblein. She got a standing ovation when, with GM Foundation’s Vivian Pickard, she announced the foundation’s $25,000 grant to the organization. It brought the event total to $294,000 for AFG’s programs that help homeless and high-risk girls grow strong and make positive choices.

Mariann Hoag Scholarship Dinner The scene in the atrium at 2000 Town Center was especially colorful when more than 200 Roeper School boosters gathered there for the Prelude to the inaugural Mariann Hoag Scholarship Dinner fundraiser.

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SOCIAL LIGHTS/SALLY GERAK They chatted, sipped champagne and bid $12,000-plus on the 39 studentcreated art objects in a silent auction before the program. It featured Katie Buchmann’s glowing memories of the beloved Hoag, Roeper’s go to foreverything person, especially financial aid, for more than 60 years before she died of cancer in 2009. According to Buchmann, Mariann’s parting request, “Take care of this place,” was the motivation for the event.

Heidi Brode, who co-chaired the event with Buchmann, Donna Silk and others, then told the entertaining saga of how Roeper’s Denita Banks Sims secured her event involvement. It included a trip to Chicago’s Latin School to meet with former Roeper Head of School Randall Dunn and learn about the concept – a large cocktail party followed by smaller dinner parties in private homes. But the most compelling program speakers were two Roeper alums, Will McDowell, ’07, who thanked Roeper for “… the strength to make absurd decisions,” and Qiana Denise Lillard, ’94. The latter told how attending Roeper on a scholarship was “…a life changing experience” that required a one-and-half-hour bus ride each way from her single-parent home in southwest Detroit. Their messages enabled auctioneer Christopher Aslanian to obtain $43,000 in scholarship pledges before the crowd left to attend the private dinners.

In addition to the 22 local dinners, 11 Roeper alums hosted dinner parties in cities from Los Angeles to London, England (Nina Beebe, ’87). The one John and Marcy Sznewajs, whose three children are current Roeper students, staged for 16 in their Birmingham home was notable for its warm hospitality and superb cuisine. The Italian-accented menu created by MASCO Corporation’s Chef Jason Dushary included, among other savories and sweets, perfectly sauced crab cakes appetizers and beef tenderloin and Chilean sea bass entrees. The intimate atmosphere was so much more conducive to conversation and camaraderie that is the traditional, cacophonic auction event held in a ballroom. Thanks to the generous dinner hosts, the first Mariann Hoag Scholarship Dinner raised $105,000 and the current plans are to stage the dinner and auction formats in alternate years.

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1. Margo Karmann (left) and Joanne Cherney of Bloomfield 2. DSO CEO Anne Parsons (left) of Grosse Pointe and VC president Deorah Savoie of Bloomfield 3. Anne Culis (left), Joann Gordon and Cathy Maiorana of Bloomfield 4. Kelly Hayes (center) of Birmingham with Jane Talia (left) of Farmington Hills and Merrill Peterson of Beverly Hills 5. Kim McFadden (left) with Kathy Abrash of Bloomfield 6. Teri Palent (left) of Northville and Diane Gartner of Bloomfield 8. Debra Patrich (left) of Bloomfield and Laura Fogelman of Birmingham 7. Jo Ann Colliver (left) of Birmingham, Jean Spencer of Manchester and Alice Belfie of Troy

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American Diabetes Association’s Gatsby Gala The Roaring Twenties theme of the ADA swanky soiree that attracted 315 to the MGM Grand inspired the speakeasy décor, a flapper dance revue before dinner and the wardrobe choice of many of the guests. Crooner Ben Sharkey and his crew provided the classic vocals before the dinner program. It included a tribute to Children’s Hospital of Michigan’s Dr. Herman Gray, remarks by Matthew Flynn about Camp Midicha, the ADA Michigan camp for children and teenagers with diabetes, and emcee WDIV’s Brandon Roux’s personal story of living with diabetes. Before guests hit the dance floor after dinner they parted with approximately $30,000 in the silent and live auctions and the Fund-A-Cure pledges.

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Vote NO on expensive Baldwin proposal ext Tuesday, May 6, the fate of a proposed $21.5 million expansion and renovation of the Baldwin Public Library will finally be determined by voters as they go to the polling places.

We urged absentee ballot voters in our April issue to vote NO on the library proposal and in this issue we are reminding voters who will be casting ballots in person next week that the plan for Baldwin Public Library should be rejected.

For the benefit of local residents, let's talk about the costs of this project, which will be underwritten by bonds that will be retired with a 20-year tax on residential and non-residential property in the city.

For months now this proposal has been portrayed as costing an average of $124 each year for 20 years for local residents. But everyone would be wise to calculate the annual tax in their own particular situation. The annual cost to homeowners and commercial/office building owners in the community will be .77 mills each year for 20 years. So if you own a $300,000 home, with an estimated taxable value of $150,000, your bill each year for 20 years will be $155.50. A taxable value of $300,000 would equal $231 in added taxes each year for 20 years. If your home is valued at $800,000, with a projected taxable value of $400,000, your annual bill will be $308. If you own property valued at $1.5 million, with a possible taxable value of $750,000, your annual bill would be just over $577.

Now for the proposal itself.

Baldwin Public Library is one of Birmingham's jewels. Located across from downtown Birmingham's Shain Park and The Community House, it resides on a full block bordering Merrill, Bates, Chester and Martin, and first opened in 1869 with just under 50 books.

The library we all know and revere was first opened in 1927 with its entrance on Martin Street, an elegant tudor revival designed to mirror city hall.

The need for more space has prompted two additions, one in 1960 and another in 1981, the last designed by architect Gunnar Birkerts, a modern rap-around structure which added to the youth area among other spaces, and is today derided as not matching the library's original structure nor surrounding area.

Several years ago those involved with the library began a discussion of ways to improve the library, ranging from an approximate $3 million plan to one created by local architect Victor Saroki that was estimated to cost about $10 million. When these options were reviewed at the start of 2012, the city commission called for a Joint Library Building Committee to be established with the task of reviewing all options for Baldwin Library. A Joint Library Building Committee was set up, consisting of three city commissioners, three library board members, and a planning commissioner. In May 2013, they hired Quinn Evans, a historic preservation architectural firm from Ann Arbor, and they performed a survey and held public meetings to determine what library users would like from the Baldwin Library, and ultimately presented three

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options for the library building committee, among them the $21.5 million plan that is facing voters in May. No doubt library personnel, members of the library committee and the joint building committee have put in countless hours in trying to arrive at a plan of action for the library, and for this we are grateful. However, we have many significant concerns about the $21.5 million library plan, including methodology used to arrive at identifying community desires and the final physical layout of the proposed revised Baldwin Library.

First, let's talk about methodology.

Currently, there are four communities which utilize Baldwin Library – residents from Birmingham, Beverly Hills, Bingham Farms and Bloomfield Hills, but as Baldwin Library is a municipal structure of Birmingham, only Birmingham residents will pay for its improvements. Between the four communities there are over 35,000 residents but only 674 people participated in a two-month long Internet survey, 391 of which were from Birmingham, a tragically small response on which to build a $21.5 million vision. Of those respondents, 57 percent were over the age of 51; and 50 percent had no children under the age of 18 living at home.

With something this important to the community as a whole, before hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent on construction management, at least $1 million on an architect, and millions more for a library that may or may not meet the community's needs, we believe it behooves everyone involved to begin the process again by first hiring a qualified research company to perform an actual survey, with a three-four percent error rate, to accurately determine the community's desires for their library.

The term “library of the future” has been used repeatedly, yet no one, from the current library director, highly vocal library board members, nor members of the Joint Library Building Committee, have been able to say what that will be, not unusual as we look across the country as everyone tries to assess the role of the public library of the future. But there does seem to be a growing consensus among many library analysts across the country that it will be a place to gather, work collaboratively and create innovative projects, in addition to being a center of information both in printed and in digital form. Against that background, any future library will be a place requiring flexible space. Indeed, even in the flawed survey, respondents overwhelmingly said they wanted more meeting space at the library, as well as more study spaces.

The designs rendered by Quinn Evans provide for four new study spaces and an auditorium, as well as addressing the ADA weakness of the current library. While the two previous additions to the library would be demolished as part of this project, the replacement will add 16,000 square feet of space but roughly only half of that would be useable public space, and worse, much of it is inflexible in its design.

Because we are not architects, we talked with

two successful Oakland County architects, both of whom pointed out that the current design and floor plan of the new library precludes the ability to adapt the library space in the future if the role of printed books and overall library needs change.

Since the “library of the future” is still an unknown quantity, its design needs to be visionary and flexible enough to adapt. Backers of this library project in recent weeks have been promoting that this Baldwin plan would satisfy the community for the next 50 year, but it would not.

The $21.5 million Baldwin Library plan is woefully inadequate and expensive when you consider the longer term value received. We urge library director Doug Koschik and his board to return to the drawing board and be innovative and creative in tackling this civic offering. The proposed improvements to the Baldwin Library will enhance a fine library, but despite the protestations of some who assert that the bond must be approved now to save money later (less than 2 percent), this is not a good plan for the city of Birmingham.

Beyond our main concerns, we have other issues with the Baldwin Library plan.

We think that if voters agree and reject this bond, at a minimum an altered composition for any future study committee must be put in place, starting with reducing the number of city commissioners who sit on this panel. It does not logic to have three commissioners on this panel who then recommend to their fellow city commissioners what should go before voters when only four votes are needed to decide an issue at the city commission level.

Further, broaden the makeup of the committee to include an urban planner in addition to someone from the planning commission, perhaps other librarians, someone with an architectural background - in short, get creative.

A new plan should also take into account future operational costs, despite claims by supporters that day-to-day costs will remain the same with the plan being voted on in May. Our cursory research indicates that costs could be increasing in the future as different kinds of personnel may be needed as the nature of research in a library changes and different skills are required to help and service patrons as the role of libraries gets defined.

We also feel strongly that more attention should be paid to the logic of the 2016 Master Plan for the city which recommends returning the entrance of the library to Martin Street, and in a city with difficult parking options, conveniences like a drive up book return would make sense.

Lastly, somehow the needs of Baldwin Library for the future must also be balanced against other possible needs, such as roads, aging infrastructure and senior services, that might require voter/taxpayer support in the short-term future.

There is no reason to rush to make changes at the Baldwin Library. Vote NO on the May bond issue and let's develop a better and more cost effective plan for the future.

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