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Home»Posts tagged with»demolition (Page 4)

Plan would save historic baseball field at former Tiger Stadium site

By Steve Neavling on July 9, 2014   Art & Entertainment, Development, Headline, Urban Renewal  

Plan would save historic baseball field at former Tiger Stadium site

City officials reached a compromise that would preserve the historic baseball field at the former site of Tiger Stadium.

Take before-and-after tour of Detroit’s most vacant neighborhood

By Steve Neavling on May 30, 2014   Abandoned Buildings, Art & Entertainment, Headline, Real Estate  

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.

Video: Historic Detroit church engulfed in flames by time firefighters arrived

By Steve Neavling on May 14, 2014   Crime & Fire, Featured Stories, Fire, posts  

Video: Historic Detroit church engulfed in flames by time firefighters arrived

Investigators believe the fire on Woodward Avenue near downtown was intentionally set.

Storied Temple Hotel demolished in Cass Corridor for DTE

By Steve Neavling on May 6, 2014   Abandoned Buildings, Art & Entertainment, Headline, posts  

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 .

One man’s last goodbye before historic Brewster Projects demo

By Steve Neavling on March 11, 2014   Abandoned Buildings, Art & Entertainment, Development, Headline, History, posts, Urban Renewal  

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

By Steve Neavling on March 10, 2014   Development, Headline, posts, Urban Renewal  

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.

Blight authority to level 35-block area, 68 homes in northwest Detroit

By Steve Neavling on January 20, 2014   Featured Stories, Life in Detroit, posts  

Blight authority to level 35-block area, 68 homes in northwest Detroit

The area is riddled with abandoned, burned-out homes, dead trees and discarded tires and garbage.

Second stage of demo begins on historic Brewster-Douglass project

By Steve Neavling on December 19, 2013   Abandoned Buildings, Buildings, Government, Headline, Life in Detroit, Mayor's Office, posts  

Second stage of demo begins on historic Brewster-Douglass project

The Brewsters are the nation’s first publicly funded housing project for black people.

Does Texas Doc have $6M for Packard? Lots of red flags

By Steve Neavling on October 30, 2013   Abandoned Buildings, Buildings, Headline, posts, Real Estate, The Packard Plant  

Does Texas Doc have $6M for Packard? Lots of red flags

New concerns were raised after the investors released a rambling, grammatically flawed statement about a “prophesy.”

Bold scrappers cause partial collapse at Packard Plant

By Steve Neavling on October 14, 2013   Abandoned Buildings, Buildings, Headline, Life in Detroit, posts, The Packard Plant  

Bold scrappers cause partial collapse at Packard Plant

Firefighters perused the debris for a scrapper who had become pinned in the debris.

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Steve Neavling

Steve Neavling lives and works in Detroit as an investigative journalist. His stories have uncovered corruption, led to arrests and reforms and prompted FBI investigations.

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