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Mind-Blowing Alfred Fisher Mansion Sells For $1.6M [guess where]
Curbed ^ | September 4, 2014 | Sarah Cox

Posted on 09/08/2014 2:37:43 PM PDT by 1rudeboy

The Alfred Fisher Mansion,the largest residential listing in Detroit, has sold for $1.6 Million in deal that closed in late August. Designed by architect Richard Marr and built in 1926, the mansion contains 15 bedrooms, 17 bathrooms, a ballroom, sun room, and a billiards room. There is also an indoor pool. These listing photos don't do the interior justice (there's a strange party situation in the basement) but the grounds are looking lovely. When the mansion first came on the market the ask was a mere $1.2M...."


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: detroit; mansion; michigan; realestate
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To: cripplecreek

I was, ahem, at a bar in the Briggs neighborhood just recently. A guy walked in, and lit-up a smoke. Nobody even blinked.


21 posted on 09/08/2014 2:56:08 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

Looks like a very elegant home in its time.


22 posted on 09/08/2014 2:56:46 PM PDT by tennmountainman (True conservatives don't like being rained on by their own party!)
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To: 1rudeboy

The response would probably be the same if the guy came in with a rifle over his shoulder.


23 posted on 09/08/2014 2:58:23 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: GeronL

Well that’s a large lot by local standards. The buyer will file for a demolition permit the day the sale closes.


24 posted on 09/08/2014 3:00:55 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
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To: 1rudeboy

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.


25 posted on 09/08/2014 3:06:13 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: 1rudeboy

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.


26 posted on 09/08/2014 3:11:59 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: lacrew

As I mentioned, that’s what makes Detroit “weird.” I’ve never seen anything else like it, in any city, anywhere.


27 posted on 09/08/2014 3:13:47 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

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.


28 posted on 09/08/2014 3:27:12 PM PDT by napscoordinator (I guarantee every FRiend Misses the lost opportunity of a President Santorum!)
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To: 1rudeboy

Holy high maintenance Batman! No thanks! Buy it and sell it for scrap!


29 posted on 09/08/2014 3:29:12 PM PDT by vpintheak (Keep calm and Fire for Effect!)
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To: Chuzzlewit
Not really that expssive to defend just need to know how to wire up lots of these to trip wires and kick switches.


30 posted on 09/08/2014 3:31:32 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: napscoordinator
Oh how i wish. Seriously, someone needs to go in their and start it over.

Actually there is a lot going on that's good in Detroit but few conservatives have any interest in learning anything about it. I've got plenty of issues with Rick Snyder but he's the first governor in 50 years to even bother taking on the problem and few conservatives have his back.
31 posted on 09/08/2014 3:35:07 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: 1rudeboy

I wasn’t bragging. I was complaining.


32 posted on 09/08/2014 3:37:09 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: cripplecreek

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


33 posted on 09/08/2014 3:39:39 PM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

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.


34 posted on 09/08/2014 3:57:54 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: 1rudeboy

The FIsher estate would sell for double digit millions in Marin County.


35 posted on 09/08/2014 4:38:07 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do)
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To: lacrew

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.


36 posted on 09/08/2014 4:38:33 PM PDT by Ax
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To: cripplecreek

Love the fordhouse in dearborn. And all those mansions 0n michingan ave.


37 posted on 09/08/2014 4:57:13 PM PDT by quimby
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To: 1rudeboy

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?


38 posted on 09/08/2014 5:01:46 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Ax

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.


39 posted on 09/08/2014 5:03:01 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: CaptainK
I believe the neighborhood is named "Palmer Park." (Incidentally, it might be where Mitt Romney spent his childhood).

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).

40 posted on 09/08/2014 5:06:14 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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