Watch: Drone footage of the Marysville power plant implosion

By Lee DeVito on Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 9:59 am

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Watch: Drone footage of the Marysville power plant implosion

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On Saturday, crews imploded a 93-year-old former DTE Energy power plant in Marysville to make for a planned redevelopment of the site that will include a five-story hotel, condominiums, restaurants, retail, and more.

Crowds of people to watch the implosion — including our friends at the Motor City Drone Co., who sent us this stunning video of the "Mighty Marysville" coming down.

Watch the video below (because everything looks cooler from the eyes of a remotely controlled quadcopter.)

DTE Marysville Implosion from Motor City Drone Co. on Vimeo.

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Leyland “Lee” DeVito is the editor in chief of Detroit Metro Times since 2016. His writing has also been published in Hour Detroit, VICE, In These Times, and New City. He once asked porn star Stormy Daniels to spank him with an issue of Metro Times. She obliged...

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