#detroit riverfront

[walkingdetroit]

Sunday in Rivertown

[ausetkmt]

[detroitlib]

Nighttime view of Detroit waterfront, skyline and Detroit River. Ferry and steamship travel on river in foreground. Printed on front: "639, water front by illumination, Detroit, Mich." Printed on back: "Metrocraft, Everett, Mass." Handwritten on back: "Aug. 3, 1941. Fine trip but not much time to write or even wire. Will tell you all about it when we get home. In Canada for 2 days - no tourists from there - both are well. Ada & [undecipherable]." Card is postmarked August 3, 1941.

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

[chopthepieup]

Detroit riverfront August 2024

[mea-cuppa-part-2]

Milliken State Park lighthouse, Detroit riverfront

[boymosher-420]

[detroitography]

Map: Where Not to Watch the Ford Fireworks, Detroit

What a day, a long, hot, sad day. Detroit loves to roll out the welcome mat for major events for visitors Downtown, but closed down numerous city parks along the entire roughly 10 miles of Detroit coastline from Riverside Park in Southwest to Mariner Park at the Grosse Pointes border. Detroit limited viewing areas to Spirit Plaza and Hart Plaza downtown while Belle Isle was limited to capacity…

[lesoreillesouvertes]

Une petite matinée à ♥️ Detroit ♥️

[nightpool]

If you are an auditor, and you call up the chief financial officer of the company you are auditing and ask “hey when is a convenient time for me to come to your office to review the books,” and he replies “no, no office, parking lot,” and you say “okay I’ll drive to your office and you’ll come down—” and he says “oh no, not our parking lot, a different parking lot,” and you meet him in a parking lot 40 miles from his office, and he hands you printouts of the financial statements and drives away, how should you begin your audit? Which of the financial statements is most likely to contain red flags or discrepancies to be addressed? I feel like the answer is “the parking lot”? If I were auditing those financial statements, most of my questions would not be about technical accounting matters but “why are we meeting in a parking lot again?”

Here is a story about the CFO of the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy, William Smith, who was arrested last week for allegedly stealing $40 million from the nonprofit:

"Mr. Smith’s grip on the nonprofit’s finances was so tight that even the nonprofit’s accountant, charged with tracking spending, could not log into one of the group’s bank accounts. Only Mr. Smith had the password. He gave her the bank statements on paper and met her only four times a year, in the parking lot of a Honey Baked Ham store 40 miles from the office. […]

"Brian Mittendorf, a professor who studies nonprofit accounting at Ohio State University, said that the conservancy’s official documents show that it took steps to safeguard its finances — including oversight from its board of directors and annual audits.

"‘All these things sound as if it’s an organization with a pretty robust review in place. On the other hand, only one person can access the money, and provides paper copies in a Honey Baked Ham parking lot?’ Mr. Mittendorf said. ‘Those sound like the opposite of a robust governance mechanism.’"

As it happens, Smith allegedly altered the bank statements by “[removing] the payments to himself and [replacing] them with fake payments to other vendors.” I still don’t fully understand the parking lot, though? Like you can meet the accountant in your office to hand over the doctored paper financial statements; just unplug your computer first. I just feel like meeting in the parking lot sends a pretty strong message of “I AM DOING CRIME” that you might want to avoid, if you are doing crime.

[wandering-ghost-with-a-camera]

Sunset on the Riverfront, 35mm film

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[walkingdetroit]

Along the Riverwalk

[federer7]

Lower Manhattan and the East River. Riverfront from the Brooklyn Bridge, New York. Circa 1901

Photo: Detroit Photographic Company.

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[prettykikimora]

Everything downtown detroit was built up for out of towner stadium goers. And casinos like oh let's go to campus martius and walk around for a block until there isn't anything interesting anymore. That's detroit. I love the architecture, maybe it's cuz I've lived here all my life idk it just sucks amd I saw what a real city looked like, like it was actually best if you didn't own a car in Chicago that's new, you gotta drive to 3verything here and it takes half an hour. The only thing interesting here is mexicantown and eastern market. The riverfront park is cool too amd there's Belle isle but everyone goes there.

[deformable-pet]

i miss my friends so fucking much rn dude thinking about when i saw one after missing her a few weeks and jumped in her arms hugging her so she had to lift me off the ground

i was just walking around the riverfront looking at the detroit skyline getting rlly fucked up about it yesterday

[baller-alert-com]

Ex-Detroit Riverfront Conservancy CFO Admits to Stealing at Least $44.3M Meant to Revitalize the City’s Industrial Riverfront http://dlvr.it/TGD3sl