Close to $400,000 in recent improvements to revitalize Ford City’s Garry Dugal Park has helped make it one of the city’s hidden gems, residents and city…
Author of the article: Brian Cross
Publishing date: Apr 16, 2021 • 4 hours ago • 4 minute read • Back from the brink. Randy Diestelmann is shown on Thursday, April 15, 2021, in front of the building he is renovating in the 1000 block of Drouillard Avenue in Windsor. He has applied to the Ford City CIP program offered by the City of Windsor. Photo by Dan Janisse /Windsor Star
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Just a few years ago, both Randy Diestelmann and the “extremely derelict” Ford City building he’d recently bought were according to the experts basically teardowns.
Diestelmann, a contractor for over 25 years and former chairman of the Ford City Business Improvement Association, says he died three separate times while in hospital for heart surgeries and sepsis complications in London in 2017 and 2018.