Politics & Government
Dearborn Mayoral Candidate Wants to Bring Global Investors to City
Dearborn Patch will profile candidates running for office in the Aug. 6 city primary.
Today we feature Tahir Hassan Al Aragy
Candidate: Tahir Hassan Al Aragy
Office sought: Mayor of Dearborn
Occupation: Investment Consultant
Education: Bachelor’s Degree
Family: No response.
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Previous elected office: Association of International Investors.
Current public service: N/A
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What are two key issues in Dearborn?
1. High taxes and insurance premiums, and a possible budget deficit, coupled with inflation.
2. City roads and municipal works.
How will you address these issues?
I will reinvent the city, conglomerate it, skyline it and globalize it. I want to enhance the city’s investments in luxury office and residential buildings, build a world-class mall and cinema theaters, build a national/global conference center, establish commercial airlines and cargo, and make the city friendly to investors and entrepreneurs. We should make the city a global destination for cultural and historical tourism (building replicas of Egyptian pyramids, etc.) and a chief U.S. exporter similar to Dubai and Hong Kong.
An upscale city will bring back the Ritz Carlton and Hyatt Regency hotels. We can also attract giant U.S. and global employers such as Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Apple, Microsoft, Boeing, Airbus, Neiman Marcus and Sacks Fifth Avenue.
The city must establish best profitable investments that can pay for citizens real estate taxes.
The city should form its own insurance cooperative to provide citizens with low insurance premiums.
We can make Dearborn a safer, cleaner city by hiring bigger, faster road work and asphalt companies. I was an independent contractor to the World Bank in Washington, D.C.
I wrote a book on economics, trade and sales titled "Road Map to Wealth and Prosperity."
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