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Last-minute appeal halts demolition of Dabls MBAD African Bead Museum building
Artist Olayami Dabls says he now has plans to make “emergency repairs” to a collapsed structure
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Visual Art, Dabls African Bead Museum, Olayami Dabls, BSEED, Detroit, demolition, Grand River, art, culture, museum, Detroit Department of Appeals and Hearings, Dabls African Bead Museum/CorePark
Last building demolished for ‘Blight to Beauty’ project in Highland Park’s Avalon Village
Founder Mama Shu hopes to inspire other cities to beautify their neighborhoods
By Layla McMurtrie
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Environment, Real Estate, Politics & Government, Avalon Village, Highland Park, Mama Shu, demolition, blight to beauty, nonprofit, Detroit
Detroit faces backlash over demolition order for partially collapsed landmark in Eastern Market
The city has a woeful track record of allowing salvageable historic buildings to be razed
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Politics & Government, Real Estate, Demolition, Eastern Market, historic buildings, preservationists, Del Bene Building, BSEED, Detroit
Asian Americans lament loss of landmark in Detroit’s old Chinatown, demand cultural site
Demolition of the historically significant building smacks of ‘arrogance’ and ‘greed,’ activist says
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Chinatown, Chinese Merchants Association, Chinese Americans, Asian Americans, Cass Corridor, demolition, Ilitch Family, Sen. Chang, Gabriela Santiago-Romero
Last-minute fight to save Ilitch-owned landmark from demolition succeeds – for now
The old Chinatown building was supposed to be razed Monday
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Real Estate, Chinatown, National Register of Historic Places, 3143 Cass Ave., Chinatown, Detroit, Detroit City Council, demolition, Gabriela Santiago-Romero, Ilitch family, Olympia Development
Fight to save Ilitch-owned landmark from demolition heats up at last minute
The 140-year-old building in the Cass Corridor was ‘the heart’ of Detroit’s Chinatown
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Chinatown, Detroit, demolition, Cass Corridor, Detroit City Council, Ilitch family, Olympia Development, Gabriela Santiago-Romero
Detroit sues brazen nonprofit for demolishing building on historic land near Grosse Pointe Park
The Urban Renewal Initiative Foundation does not have authority to build on the historic land
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Urban Renewal Initiative Foundation, Grosse Pointe Park, Demolition, A. Paul and Carol C. Schaap Center, nonprofit, lawsuit, Detroit, Wayne County Circuit Court, Historic District Commission
Detroit stops Grosse Pointe Park foundation from demolishing building along historic land
‘They think they’re above the law,’ councilman says
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Mayor Duggan, Detroit, Detroit Historic District commission, Grosse Pointe Park, Demolition, A. Paul and Carol C. Schaap Center for the Performing Arts, Jefferson-Chalmers Historic Business District
Demolition begins on long-abandoned La Choy factory along Joe Louis Greenway in Detroit
The city plans to raze or redevelop about 100 vacant commercial buildings during Mayor Mike Duggan’s third term
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, La Choy, demolition, Detroit, Mayor Duggan, LaJuan Counts, Brad Dick, Joe Louis Greenway
Detroit sues celebrity pastor and his ‘nuisance’ mega-church over unfinished Woodward project
The city wants to demolish Winans’ Perfecting Church if it’s not completed soon
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Perfecting Church, Detroit, Church, Woodward, Development, construction, demolition, lawsuit, Wayne County Circuit Court, Marvin Winans
Demolition begins on another large section of Detroit’s abandoned Packard Plant
‘Every day the Packard Plant sits here in this state is a day this neighborhood cannot move forward,’ Mayor Duggan said
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Packard Plant, Detroit, Mayor Duggan, abandoned buildings, Demolition, Detroit Demolition Department, auto plant
City of Detroit begins demolishing a portion of the sprawling, storied Packard Plant
In the early 1900s, the Packard Plan became a proud symbol of Detroit’s industrial rise as it churned out luxury automobiles and decent wages to thousand of workers
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, Packard Plant, abandoned buildings, East Grand Boulevard, mayor Duggan, Scott Benson, demolition
Lead poisoning endangers generations of Detroit children, with no end in sight
Part three of a series on environmental racism in Michigan
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Environment, lead poisoning, Detroit, demolition, Cover Story
Large swaths of iconic Packard Plant may be demolished under new redevelopment plan
Tags: Fernando Palazuelo, Detroit, developer, Peru, Packard Plant, abandoned property, scrappers, urban explorers, demolition, redevelopment
Detroit City Council scraps Mayor Duggan's $250M demolition proposal
Tags: News Hits, demolition, Mayor duggan, Detroit, Detroit City Council, bond, Detroit auditor general
Historic building to be demolished in downtown Detroit for a whopping 12 parking spaces
Tags: News Hits, Detroit Saturday Night, downtown Detroit, Preservation Detroit, parking lots, Fort Shelby, redevelopment, media, Detroiters for Parking Reform, demolition, protest, Detroit City Council
House owned by critic of Detroit's demolition program was mysteriously demolished
By Lee DeVito
Tags: News Hits, Detroit, demolition, Mayor Mike Duggan, Brightmoor, Sherry Gay-Dagnogo, The Detroit Building Authority
Duggan to unveil $250M bond proposal to remove blight in Detroit neighborhoods
Tags: Demolition, Mayor Duggan, Detroit, bond issue, ballot initiative, election
Legendary, Ilitch-owned Gold Dollar is demolished after suspicious fire
Tags: White Stripes, music, Cass Corridor, Gold Dollar, Ilitch family, demolition, fire, arson, Detroit
Vacant house where suspected Detroit serial killer lived and murdered is open for more predators
Tags: News Hits, Serial killer, vacant houses, demolition, Deangelo Martin, Chief James Craig, Detroit, Detroit police, Tammy Jones
Leni Sinclair invited to sign Detroit’s Scarab Club beams
Double voting scandal hits Macomb County as 4 face felony charges
Michigan inmate wins $100 million judgment against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs for sexual assault
By Eddie B. Allen Jr. and Bill Proctor