Here is an article in the Flint Journal about how the DDA to get someone to use the old fire hall downtown which has been vacant since 2003. Last summer they applied to have the 71-year-old building put on the National Register of Historic Places. They should find out in February or March if it was approved.
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2009/12/fenton_officials_still_searchi.html