A nearly two-decade-old vision for redeveloping the old Uniroyal site along the Detroit riverfront with housing has come to an end.
Members of the Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority voted late Wednesday to end a development agreement for the 44-acre site just west of the bridge to Belle Isle. The deal dates to 2005 and involved NFL running back Jerome Bettis — a Detroit native — as a lead developer.
The plan originally called for some 2,000 town houses and apartments and a potential hotel, and more recent iterations have also called for commercial space…