Historic Hotel Charlevoix: Take a rare glimpse inside a long-neglected building
With a bit of courage and muscle, we ascended the building, often using a precariously hanging fire escape, getting a rare glimpse of the interior.
Abandoned Hotel Charlevoix may be leveled this year after judge orders demolition
The ruling comes six months after the Detroit Historic Commission declined Sachs’ request to demolish the building.
State to Detroiters: Sorry for demolishing your recently purchased homes
State officials took blame for demolishing up to 20 Detroit homes that recently were purchased at a Wayne County tax foreclosure sale.
Massive, crumbling Brewster projects to be demolished but no plans for future site
The nation’s first federally funded public housing project for black people is coming down on Detroit’s east-side, removing a behemoth eyesore looming over I-75, Mayor Dave Bing announced today.
Photos: Cass Tech remembered a year later
A year ago this month, demolition crews knocked down the final wall of the storied and mammoth Cass Tech High School in Detroit, shattering hopes of reviving the 93-year-old building.
Historic industrial building makes way for parking lot; Midtown to get research center
The final walls of the historic building are expected to come crashing down today, sealing the fate of the Albert Kahn industrial structure in Midtown. Wayne State University has been tearing down the two-story building this summer to make way for a parking lot and a staging ground for work on an adjacent, $90-million biomedical research […]
DPS dilemma: Fund education or demo
Detroit Public Schools has a dilemma every year. More than 50 vacant schools are scattered across the city, often left to rot because the cash-strapped district must decide between demolishing the eyesores and educating children. “If you have schools that are vacant, and you are going to spend money on that, you aren’t going to […]
Take a visual tour of four abandoned DPS schools
More than 50 vacant schools are scattered across the city, often left to rot because the cash-strapped district must decide between demolishing the eyesores and educating children.
DPS Chief: Class sizes won’t reach 61 students
Detroit Public Schools won’t come anywhere close to the reported class sizes of 61 students, DPS Emergency Manager Roy Roberts assured City Council this morning. Roberts also said the long-struggling district should be deficit-free by 2016. Roberts dismissed fears that classes would bulge to 60 or more students, saying he has a plan to limit […]
Gov. Snyder to rescue? Plan targets abandoned houses
If Gov. Rick Snyder gets his way, the state will help Mayor Dave Bing demolish abandoned houses in Detroit, his office said Friday. Abandoned homes are among the most nagging problems in Detroit because they attract crime, rodents and fires and drive down property values. By many estimates, about a quarter of the homes in […]