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.
Video: Demo begins on storied Brewster projects in Detroit
The project is the centerpiece of Bing’s plan to demolish 10,000 abandoned buildings in four years.
Crews to start tearing down Brewster housing projects
The former red-brick community was the nation’s first publicly funded housing project for black people.
Mayor Bing mum on stalled Brewster projects demo
By now, crews were to begin demolishing the red-brick towers and row houses.
Councilman got wish: Historic club gutted
An effort to save the historic University Club would devolve into a discussion of slave institutions and the Holocaust.
Historic Brewster Projects clear hurdle for $6.5 million demolition project on prime real estate
The city of Detroit cleared the final hurdle to begin demolishing the storied, crumbling Brewster projects that loom like towering gravestones over I-75 near downtown.
City Council threatens to pull plug on Arnold Home demo because bidder not a Detroiter
The sprawling Greek revival-style building near the Southfield Freeway collapsed in December 2011, killing two metal scrappers and drawing attention to a long-abandoned building that is wide open to trespass and has injured others in the past.
Aerial view: Demolition levels 10-block area of east side, clears way for progress
Crews recently wiped out a 10-block area that included decaying buildings, thick overgrowth and discarded tires and needles.
Demolition of 10-block area on Detroit’s east side was teeming with dope, prostitutes, homeless
The cost to demolish six houses, level trees, till the land and clean up discarded tires and trash: just $200,000.
Video: Mayor Bing to reveal details behind mysterious east-side project tonight?
Explore the mysterious project that leveled 12 blocks on the city’s east side.