Long-abandoned Cass Corridor apartments to be revived with 47 units
The public is invited to the groundbreaking at 11 a.m. today.
One man’s last goodbye before historic Brewster Projects demo
As a towering claw dug into one of four remaining high-rises, Prince forlornly posed as cameras chronicled the beginning of the end for the nation’s first publicly funded housing project for black people.
Demo begins on storied high-rises at Brewster-Douglass housing projects
Brewster-Douglass is considered the nation’s first publicly funded housing project for black people when it was built in the 1930s.
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.
Project to transform 140 acres of blight into large urban farm finally underway
The plan is to plant 15,000 hardwood trees like maple and oak this spring over an area riddled with abandoned homes, dead trees and piles of garbage, tires and old furniture.
Peruvian developer makes final payment on Packard Plant as fires break out
Brazen scrappers continued to cause destruction Thursday after they clipped a natural gas line.
28 Detroit houses selling for $500 at county auction
Some of the properties are abandoned and gutted, while others could fetch more than $85,000 in any other community.
Packard Plant fetches $21,000 bid from anonymous investor
Whoever wins the auction will inherit hefty costs, from demolition to a six-figure tax bill.
How a flophouse along Cass Corridor fetched $3M-plus
The purchase price is a stark sign of what’s about to happen to the Cass Corridor.
Photos: Canadian developer gobbles up Corktown properties
North Corktown is witnessing a steady drizzle of development and new residents, but it’s not envisioned as a rehabilitated neighborhood under Mayor Bing’s blueprint for land use.