Campus Martius Park

You know, we talked a lot yesterday about this being the people's riverfront.

So this is not some, you know, gated, you know, Rancho Palos Verdes in Los Angeles, right? This is the people's riverfront with 18 acres of public space and not just like, you know, grass fields, but public space like Campus Martius Park that is programmed around the year, affordable housing, opportunities for Detroit-based small businesses, and the fundamental program for the riverfront movie theater, water park, things like that, that are, that are for the people.

It's incredible.

Jared Fleisher, CEO of Bedrock.

Okay.

But then once they got to the end, they were supposed to go to Campus Martius and get married, but everything was, like, shutting down.

Uh-huh.

So they just got married right then and there.

Uh, and they got married right then and there.

Wow.

They were supposed to get married in Campus Martius, but because of that late finish the crowds were gone, crews were dismantling the course, so the Canton Township couple got married on the spot.

They called it an imperfect race, but obviously a perfect union, and they exchanged their vows right then and there.

I wish that I could go, but it's Halloween night and I will be with my family.

However, um, Dawn's idea, so Dawn from Ghost Whisperers that's been on here quite a bit, um, talk about her a lot, she actually gave, you know, the idea, [clears throat] um, or put the idea out there, I'm sorry, to go and visit Houdini's place of death, which is, I believe, Campus Martius now.

And I think it's gonna be a great investigation.

I definitely wanna get there a little bit earlier.

I don't wanna be doing that at like 2:00 AM.

Campus Martius is very, very, um, protected and very safe to be at, but d- you know, in the city you just, you know.

It's not, it's not an investigation that we're gonna be able to be there till 4:00 in the morning, you know? But I would love to go and try to make contact and have multiple people with us and go through and through and through and try to debunk everything to see if Houdini himself has broke his own skeptical mind or spirit, we can say, and see if, you know, we can make connection with him.

So we will definitely be participating in that soon, um, but definitely will not be there on Halloween night, unfortunately.

A- and the interesting thing is it, it's also linked, uh, now very directly northerly with Hart Plaza.

You know, you have the pedestrian promenade that takes you up to Campus Martius.

Campus Martius.

Then you have Woodward that, again, takes you all the way up to Grand Circus Park, which we haven't really mentioned.

Yeah.

Right.

It was, uh, a farmer's market condition going way back.

Uh, and in, in, in more recent years, the market is gone and then it's become a public space, and contributes to the final thing I think we should talk about, which is Campus Martius.

[laughs]

The original market, interestingly, was around in Campus Martius.

It was called the Central Market.

Oh.

Then we're gonna have our warm-up party on Friday at 7:00 PM.

That's a ticketed event at Chalet 313 at Campus Martius.

We've had that for years.

It's a really fun kickoff, especially for people that are coming in town, um, you know, visiting Detroit, seeing Detroit for the first time.

And so most of the tours are like two hours and 15 minutes to two and a half hours long.

We typically start in Campus Martius because that's, I think, a great place to start a tour because there's so much history there.

It dates back before the Civil War.

And I mean, it's just...

Not well, but I actually went, uh, in D- [laughs] this is gonna peep out.

In Detroit, there's a, uh, they have a rink in Campus Martius every year, and, uh, I'll usually go down for once a year.

So I'm not doing any triple axels, but I can at least get on the skates and skate around.

Can you?