Location, location, location -- increasing rents through commodification of place

The Detroit Free Press reports, in "Want to spend eternity near Parks? It'll cost you" that Woodlawn Cemetary in Detroit has as much as doubled the cost of cemetary plots and burial crypts in spaces close to where Rosa Parks is now interred.

What better illustration of Logan and Molotch's discussion of "the exchange value of place." (Thanks for the heads up from the Detroit Style Pride blog.)

From the article:

Crypt price comparison
• Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit: $3,600-$8,600
• Glen Eden Lutheran Memorial Park, Macomb Twp.: $4,900-$19,500
• Holy Sepulchre, Southfield: $18,550-$29,350
• Rosa L. Parks Freedom Chapel at Woodlawn Cemetery: $24,725-$65,000 (some spaces still under negotiation)

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