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# Echoes Of The Pandemic Are Changing Plans In Detroit
- URL: https://www.dailydetroit.com/echoes-of-the-pandemic-are-changing-plans-in-detroit/
- Published: 2021-07-14T15:34:58.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-25T22:31:41.000Z
- Author: Jer Staes
- Tags: #wordpress, #Import 2024-02-25 18:12, #admin

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On today’s podcast: Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan talks about the changes the pandemic has brought, especially with projects that were offices possibly becoming residential, among other topics.

As the pandemic recedes, childcare is the number one reason people aren’t returning to work. Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist II outlines the desire for a childcare accelerator and his concern about getting people vaccinated.

I-75 got toasted in Troy by a tanker and will need serious repairs, possibly slowing and snarling traffic for weeks. Here are pics: 

> Just received these pictures from [@MichiganDOT](https://twitter.com/MichiganDOT?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=dailydetroit.com) showing the damage to I-75 from yesterday’s tanker fire in [#TroyMI](https://twitter.com/hashtag/TroyMI?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=dailydetroit.com). Amazing to see the destruction up close and realizing how hot that fire was burning to melt our new [@Modernize75](https://twitter.com/Modernize75?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=dailydetroit.com) pavement. [pic.twitter.com/zbGLEkEdMd](https://t.co/zbGLEkEdMd?ref=dailydetroit.com)
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> — Mayor Ethan Baker (@EthanBakerMI) [July 13, 2021](https://twitter.com/EthanBakerMI/status/1415095125517160449?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=dailydetroit.com)

The University of Michigan Innovation Center planned for the old fail jail site on the edge of downtown is off. Developer Stephen Ross says it’ll go somewhere else in the city, but there’s no word as to exactly where or when. Construction was supposed to start this year.

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