Riverside Art Center will get their $549,000 elevator

Yep, and it'll only cost $200,000 more than EMU paid for the Clery Act violations. We love art, we love artists, but $549,000 right now for an ELEVATOR to use an Art Center in THESE times? Sorry, we're not jumping up and down. Of all the things this grant money COULD have been spent on to improve the community right now, this was way down the list. We understand the hard work and sweat that went into getting it, still, enjoy it, but it serves nothing more that a niche market right now and Ypsi should be thinking BIG picture. Bringing a handful of EMU art students downtown isn't really it.

So now we'll se if this 500K elevator will, in the words of Bill Kinley, president of the Riverside Art Center Foundation Board, help revitalize downtown Ypsilanti

"The art center is an important piece of the puzzle to revitalize downtown"

Uh, no it's not. It's for a niche market. Arts are nice, in financial times like these, this city has more pressing needs.

And when does the state have 500 large to spend on art center elevators?