Article content Brothers Terry (left) and Gerry Head are photographed in front of the Indian Road home they grew up in in Windsor on Tuesday, November 19, 2013. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. “He didn’t realize they were just going to fence them off and let them rot.” I felt for the neighbours across the road, because we grew up with all of them,” he said. “I went by one time when it was boarded up and the fence was up there. But he also feels for the people who now have to put up with the nuisance caused by the condition of the home he grew up in. Gerry Head, another one of Clifford’s sons, said his father was lucky to get one of the early offers to sell before the neighbourhood really started to crumble. Those homes have fallen so far into disrepair that they’re currently only worth about $13 million, according to assessment records. That’s $2 million more than Moroun spent to purchase the Ambassador Bridge itself in 1979. Moroun spent the bulk of that money - $31.9 million – on houses, apartment buildings and residential vacant lots in Sandwich from the mid-‘90s to the present. Article content Click here to peruse an interactive graphic of Matty Moroun properties in Windsor. Since the bridge company often registers the ownership with numbered corporations or lawyers, it’s possible it owns even more Windsor real estate than that. The analysis identified 182 total real estate transactions involving the bridge company or affiliates, with billionaire bridge owner Matty Moroun spending a total of $52 million on Windsor property. They’re behind chain link fences, with a security company’s logo stamped on the plywood covering the doors and windows, shingles and siding peeling off a little more each day.Ī painstaking analysis of property records conducted by The Star reveals that spring day in 1996 was just the beginning. Now, of course, it’s easy to tell which homes the bridge company owns. Because the bridge company kept the homes reasonably well maintained and occupied by renters until the mid-2000s, nobody really noticed. Thirteen of Clifford’s Indian Road neighbours also took the men in suits up on their offer that spring, with the deals all closing on their homes in the 600 and 700 blocks on the same day – May 21, 1996. He sold his home to the Ambassador Bridge. Head built his family’s home and many others on Indian Road. Article content Home builder Cliff Head stands by his pickup truck in this photo taken in the mid-50s. The neighbours literally would cut their lawns with hedge trimmers. The whole roadway was covered over with trees. “It was one of the most beautiful streets in Windsor. “I remember thinking, ‘It’s a good thing he can’t be here to see this.’ It would have broken his heart to see what they had done to Indian Road,” Terry said. The offer – $134,000 cash for his home, plus legal and moving expenses – wasn’t coming around again.Ĭlifford and his wife took the deal and moved to Amherstburg. The truck plaza was coming whether he sold his house or not, Terry remembers the lawyers saying. Or he could live with a massive truck plaza the company was planning to build in his backyard. where he had lived since 1950, the year he built the house and many others in the neighbourhood. Please try again Article contentĬlifford could sell them the home at 670 Indian Rd. The next issue of Windsor Star Headline News will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĪ welcome email is on its way.Denver got to the Chargers 9 before McManus was good from 27 yards. KJ Hamler hauled in a 47-yard pass to the LA 28. The Broncos were not content to run out the clock though. The Chargers converted all four of their third-down opportunities - including Ekeler's TD - on the drive, which took 7:40 off the clock.įollowing a Denver three-and-out, Los Angeles evened it at 10 on Hopkins' 37-yard field goal with 53 seconds remaining in the half. The Chargers answered on their ensuing possession, putting together a 15-play, 82-yard drive that was capped by Austin Ekeler's 6-yard run up the middle with the Los Angeles linemen helping him get across the goal line. The Dulcich TD was the Broncos' first in 87 minutes, 54 seconds. On the play before Dulcich's score, Wilson avoided a sack attempt by Khalil Mack and Chris Rumph II, scrambled right and connected with Jerry Jeudy for a 37-yard completion. Dulcich, a third-round pick from UCLA, was activated before the game after beginning the season on injured reserve due to a hamstring injury. Wilson was able to elude pressure, step up in the pocket and loft a pass up the right sideline to the rookie tight end, who caught it at the LA 15 and went untouched into the end zone for his first NFL touchdown.
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