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| 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 | 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. Speaking 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. Kildee 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. Kildee has been a leading advocate for land banks such as the one he helped to form here in 2002. "We told you so ... All three of those buildings have gone from being a drain on our tax base to successful redevelopment,” 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 |