Detroit — An advisory group of Cass Corridor residents that meets with the Ilitch organization about its plans to overhaul the neighborhood around Little Caesars Arena says the four-year relationship has been marked by broken promises.

They were promised five new walkable neighborhoods filled with shops, restaurants and housing. What they've gotten so far, they say, has been traffic gridlock, 27 parking facilities — some taking up entire blocks — and fewer places to live.

The 15 residents of the Neighborhood Advisory Committee for the Arena District were appointed by City Council to be the voice of their neighborhood as the billionaire Ilitch family's Olympia Development of Michigan attempts to develop 50 blocks of the neighborhood north of downtown.

The plan calls for high-density neighborhoods with names like Wildcat Corner toattract hundreds of new residents, offices and stores. At the center is Little Caesars Arena, the $863-million sports-and-entertainment complex named after the pizza chain owned by the family. The arena is home to the Ilitch-owned Detroit Red Wings, as well as the Detroit Pistons.

"The arena is pretty, their people are polite, but there is nothing beyond that," said Karen McLeod, an advisory committee member. McLeod has lived in Cass Corridor for 30 years. She lives two blocks from the arena that opened in late 2017.

"Most of our parking went away through their new parking lots, and the street parking is pretty much gone because the city wanted to make sure the crowds at the arena could get out quickly," McLeod said. A nearby party store where many residents