Contractors at Little Ceasars Arena construction site fined $2.9 million for not hiring enough Detroiters
Buy Photo Crews are working three shifts weekdays and Saturdays to finish Little Caesars Arena, the firm overseeing construction says. (Photo: Clarence Tabb Jr . / The Detroit News) Buy Photo Dozens of the contractors building Little Caesars Arena have been fined a total of $2.9 million as of March for frequently not hiring at least 51 percent of Detroiters at the ongoing construction site , according to the latest data collected by the city. And that total is expected to be even higher during the push to complete construction of the $862. 9 million sports and entertainment complex by early September, based on the monthly data compiled by the city agency monitoring the workforce agreements on construction sites, said Portia Roberson, director of the city’s Office of Human Rights. An average of 27 percent of total hours worked at the arena site were performed by Detroit residents from April 2015 to March 2017, the latest monthly data available. It’s been two years, August 2015, ...