Posted on 09/08/2014 2:37:43 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
I was, ahem, at a bar in the Briggs neighborhood just recently. A guy walked in, and lit-up a smoke. Nobody even blinked.
Looks like a very elegant home in its time.
The response would probably be the same if the guy came in with a rifle over his shoulder.
Well that’s a large lot by local standards. The buyer will file for a demolition permit the day the sale closes.
Gotta love a restaurant called “Guns & Butter” even if it is a “foodie” type of place.
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140729/ENT03/307290072
Personally Greedy Greg’s is more my style.
Amazing to look at on the map. A half mile to the east is major road, Woodward Avenue. And immediately to the east of that road, its an entirely different neighborhood. Literally, on the west side, mansions back up to this road...and on the east side, falling apart properties.
That one house probably has a valuation as high as an entire city block, just a few thousand feet to the east.
As I mentioned, that’s what makes Detroit “weird.” I’ve never seen anything else like it, in any city, anywhere.
If I was a trillionaire. I would go in and bulldoze Detroit to the ground and start a new conservative city. Oh how i wish. Seriously, someone needs to go in their and start it over. I think it could be done, but it would take starting from scratch.
Holy high maintenance Batman! No thanks! Buy it and sell it for scrap!
I wasn’t bragging. I was complaining.
Just saw a how’d you get so rich rerun in the block of Joan rivers reruns this weekend.
$45 million in East Hampton, NY
That bang for your buck is attracting a lot of money to Detroit.
My neighbor’s grandson was making a high 5 figure salary in NY. He was living in a studio apartment and barely scraping by. He transferred to Detroit and says it was like more than tripling his pay without making a dime more.
He bought a house in a neighborhood with a large number of recent transferees and says its great. The company he works for pays into a fund with other companies to provide private security for the neighborhood. Plus Detroit is an open carry stand your ground city so he can protect himself.
The city has a long way to go but there is a lot of development and growth from the downtown area outward.
The FIsher estate would sell for double digit millions in Marin County.
I was born and raised on the west side. I lived near Southfield and Schoolcraft, back in the day when you could play pick-up football on the island on Southfield. Many a Conestoga wagon passed us by, heading west.
Love the fordhouse in dearborn. And all those mansions 0n michingan ave.
I’m looking at the satellite map of the house and the homes surrounding it. They all look like large mansions with swimming pools. Are they occupied or deserted and in disrepair?
Another interesting juxtaposition. That is near a major interchange...and the neighborhoods look nice on 3 sides, all the way up to the highway fence.
But the southeast quadrant has a 20 block area that has more vacant lots than occupied...and closer inspection with Google street viewer shows a very run down area. Its almost being ‘taken back’ by nature, as trees overtake the old structures. But 500 feet away, on the other side of the highway, its a fairly nice neighborhood.
The houses are occupied, with a smattering of foreclosures (but not a number out of the ordinary in the Las Vegas sense), and I am told that the demographic is 80% black with a median income of $100K (don't quote me on it, I'm sure the data can be found, somewhere).
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