"Rare as precious coral.."
An area the size of San Francisco is lying unused or vacant in Detroit
One can bulldoze a house and load it in a dumpster for a few thousand dollars. It's the red tape, disposal and payoff to city officials for the job that makes it more expensive. I suppose the trees growing through some of them doesn't help either.
This sounds like an excellent opportunity to reclaim much of the city for future development. If abandoned buildings are torn down, some inexpensive plants can be put in their place that will draw contaminants from the soil. The plants can then be harvested and the contaminants safely disposed.
Importantly, the city puts priority on clearing lands with a lot of abandoned buildings so that larger plots of land are available for future development.
Since Detroit is pretty much landlocked, this sets up a future of “inbuilding”, and a resulting economic boom when the time comes. The more of the city that is cleared, the bigger the revitalization will eventually be.
"Rare as precious coral.."
Bet you could buy entire neighborhoods for next to nothing if one had the means to live without needing a job.
in 10,000 years, someone is going to dig up Detroit and wonder why people suddenly abandoned a perfectly good city.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Blue Diamond is making a killing with $10,000 matches!
I could offer to tear down (torch) those abondoned houses for only $5,000 saving them a bundle.
Remember what is happning to Detroit will happen to America if the DimTards remain in power.
In Detroit!!! Wish I could post pics from some overheads, two blocks over, looks like a forest is growing. Use to ride my bike and help a friend with his newspaper route.
More fruits of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society.
LOL! “Feral”, huh? The rural southeast is scattered with places likes these. We call them “abandoned houses”.
Isn’t tonight “hell night”, the night before Halloween, when abandoned buildings are torched in Detroit?
I made it one block and then (rather than walk back past the street punks who had hassled me) turned right, made another right and escaped back into the hotel. Even on that short walk, I really missed my sidearm.
Nowadays, I wouldn't consider taking that same walk -- armed to the teeth...
Okay, so, this just proves that nature’s crazy.
Looks as though “”Mother Nature” is doing a pretty good job of cleaning things up.
I’ll bet if it’s let alone for the same # of years it took to build it you’d hardly be able to tell it was there..
I read somewhere that you can drive momma nature out with a broom but she comes back with a pitchfork!
I seriously quit beleiving all the hooey about how badly we’ve “destroyed” this planet when we started going up to the UP on vacations. In the copper minning districts every square foot was scraped/dug/buried by bare rock. Today the reforestation is so complete you have to really hunt to find any evidence of most of the mines.
That’s when I started beleiving what I SAW instead of what I was told by the “experts”.
Nothing a bulldozer and a few flamethrowers can’t fix to lower inventory. Napalm is even better.
IMO they should bulldoze it and turn it into farmland, or the equivalent.
I’ve been back in my hometown of Cleveland this week. I want to vomit when I see what’s become of it—it isn’t far behind Detroit, which was a nice city once upon a time.
