New life for Detroit’s train station? Billionaire Moroun pledges more rehab
Billionaire Matty Moroun has pledged for years to clean up the Michigan Central Station, one of Detroit’s most iconic symbols of decay.
Up close: 8 most abandoned neighborhoods in Detroit
More than a third of the houses and buildings are vacant in eight Detroit neighborhoods.
Take before-and-after tour of Detroit’s most vacant neighborhood
Detroit’s most desolate area is in the shadow of the Coleman A. Young International Airport on Detroit’s east side, where entire blocks are overgrown parcels.
Hantz Farms: Massive tree-planting project never intended to be job-generator
When more than 1,000 people gathered to help plant trees Saturday, only a handful were compensated employees.
Photo essay: Explore blighted area to be turned into 140-acre forest in Detroit
The largely abandoned area is littered with trash, tires, furniture, rotting homes and discarded boats.
DDA: Metropolitan Building has ‘rapidly deteriorating facade’ in downtown Detroit
Still, officials hope they can find a buyer before it’s too late.
Debris falls from neglected Metropolitan Building in downtown Detroit, hits truck
The 15-story gothic-style building is owned by Detroit’s Downtown Development Authority, which has let the building rot while spending $285 million in public funds for a new Red Wings arena.
From Duke Ellington to high ed: Long-abandoned lot on Woodward gets new life
The elegance and luxury of the once-famed block in Detroit have long been replaced with a McDonald’s and vacant lot with broken liquor bottles and empty bags of snacks.
New Packard Plant owner cracks down on trespassers by stranding them
Some photographers and explorers are walking out of the ruins to find themselves without a car in the crime-ridden area.
Storied Temple Hotel demolished in Cass Corridor for DTE
DTE reportedly purchased the Detroit hotel for more than $3 million as the Red Wings arena .