{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://web.archive.org/web/20141115215111/http://dankildee.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/kildee-tells-land-bank-doubters-we-told-you-so-at-opening-of-flints-oak-0", "Kildee tells Land Bank doubters: 'We told you so' at opening of Flint's Oak Street Apartments", "2014-09-29", "2014", "2014-09", "Democrat", "House", "MI", "Dan Kildee", "K000380", "web.archive.org", null, null, "legacy", "U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Flint Twp., got a chance to say, \"I told you so,\" during an appearance in Flint Friday, Sept. 26, and didn't let it pass.\nSpeaking at a grand opening for Oak Street Senior Apartments, Kildee, the former chairman of the Genesee County Land Bank, remembered back to 2005 -- a time when the same property was boarded up and empty and the Land Bank accepted it as a gift from the Flint School District.\nKildee said a Flint Journal story at the time raised questions about the Land Bank's ability to redevelop the old Durant Hotel, Great Lakes Technology Center, and what was then a shuttered Oak School as well as maintaining hundreds of other abandoned properties lost through tax foreclosure.\nKildee has been a leading advocate for land banks such as the one he helped to form here in 2002.\n\"We told you so ... All three of those buildings have gone from being a drain on our tax base to successful redevelopment,\u201d Kildee said. \"You have to have a vision. You have to have a plan.\"", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://web.archive.org/web/20141115215111/http://dankildee.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/kildee-tells-land-bank-doubters-we-told-you-so-at-opening-of-flints-oak-0"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.248320961371064, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}