Mayor Albert Cobo
Albert Cobo was Detroit's mayor from 1950-57. After the city's convention center was built in 1960, it was called Cobo Hall.
Outries over Cobo's racially charged past brought pressure to change the name of what's now Cobo Center. Now, that's finally happening.
Chemical Bank has purchased the naming rights in a 22-year deal for $1.5 million a year, reports Chad Livengood of Crain's Detroit Business.
Once its merger with TCF is approved, it will be called the TCF Center.
Cobo carried out the demolitions of African-American neighborhoods and businesses in the 1950s for so-called urban renewal.
