The Site of the most notable state fair in Michigan was built in 1904 by the founder of the once massive J.L. Hudson’s Department store the site often refereed to as “The Fairgrounds” was officially closed after the governor of Michigan vetoed funding to the State fair on October 30th, 2009 after which “The Fairgrounds” sat in limo until 2012 when the land was transfer to the Land Bank Fast Track Authority to foresee future plans to the site, today the most notable things on the land is a shopping plaza which was the home of the first Meijer in Detroit which opened in 2013 and later a amazon warehouse was built in 2022 after massive push back and protests by locals to save the state fair coliseum in 2021, in 2023 the last standing state fair building was converted into the Jason Hargrove Transit Center or for short the JHTC served by the local buses in the Detroit Region and named after DDOT bus driver Jason Hargrove which died in 2020 after being coughed on while on duty early on in the COVID-19 Pandemic and died weeks later due to the virus