This week, the PAH-FEST is at Madonna College. This is Christopher Coppola's non-profit film project. People, even kids, go and shoot a short film of an idea. Hollywood "coaches" assist in the edit. Then, there is an online celebrity judging contest, complete with prizes. The winning films are then shown in the community.
This is so cool. Why can't Hamtramck host something like this?
Wait, I know why!
We have no venue for something such as this. We need a facility and we could put it along Hamtramck Drive. We could build a multiplex convention center with, dare I say, an hotel, with affordable and sustainable housing green walk through clusters where the first floor are shops.
We could target and capture federal funding that is just sitting there with the city's name on it and use it to contract the project. Then we could mandate the contractors hire a certain percentage of residents and, what the heck, go so far as to mandate youth employment?
We could finally upgrade the city website to promote the project internationally.
Then, we could invite the PAH-FEST and make films to show the world how cool the city is.
2 comments:
The city only owns a small piece of land on Hamtramck Drive. Also, we can't get a major grocery line to invest here because of demographics, much less the Hilton family to build a hotel with a lovely view of the railroad tracks and a junkyard.
Such negativity. Explore the possibilities. Others are...
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