Want a project that all Windsorites could sink their teeth in and join together for the betterment of the entire city? We’ve got it here on this weeks ScaleDown Radio.

I was joined in the studio today by Peter Lui and Al Teshuba (and with my cohost Mark via the telephone), who have the ambitious plans of converting Mr. Lui’s property holdings on Wyandotte Street West into Windsor’s “China Town”, complete with light rail link via the underutilized rail tunnel to downtown Detroit. They’ve got the contacts to pull this off and have done their homework over the past 10 years to make this a believable project - not some pie-in-the-sky daydream.

Stay tuned on Friday and read the blog, as I hope to have Mr. Lui’s drawings scanned by then so you can see the scope of this project. I can’t see how anyone would oppose this development, yet the ball is in the communities court to throw their support behind Mr. Lui and Mr. Teshuba to let the powers-that-be know that this is precisely the kind of development Windsor needs to rebound from the economic slump we have just entered.

In the meantime, check out this Windsor Star article, as well as the BizX article that is coming out very shortly.

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