$35 million for 7 communities

[Coldjensens]

Removing unsalvageable buildings matters if they are truly unsalvageable. Mostly, they need to rebuild infrastructure. Many of the houses can and will be restored if they make it a nice place again. Tearing them down leaves gaps and makes people nervous. make it nice get the cool houses restored and there will be a waiting list. Leave gaps or put in new crappy houses, and they will be unable to compete with nicer subdivisions of new crappy houses in the suburbs. The advantage and appeal of a neighborhood over a subdivision is that it is a neighborhood.

Clean up the lots, build fix and landscape roads, sidewalks and boulevards, build or restore schools churches, theaters, restaurants, taverns, and stores. Create a place of coolness that the suburbs cannot hope to match, not a sad attempted copy of a suburb. You cannot just clean up a slum and leave it a clean slum (for a while) and then expect people to want to go there. That is just lipstick on a pig.

[usroute10]

Originally Posted by coldjensens

removing unsalvageable buildings matters if they are truly unsalvageable. Mostly, they need to rebuild infrastructure. Many of the houses can and will be restored if they make it a nice place again. Tearing them down leaves gaps and makes people nervous. Make it nice get the cool houses restored and there will be a waiting list. Leave gaps or put in new crappy houses, and they will be unable to compete with nicer subdivisions of new crappy houses in the suburbs. The advantage and appeal of a neighborhood over a subdivision is that it is a neighborhood.

Clean up the lots, build fix and landscape roads, sidewalks and boulevards, build or restore schools churches, theaters, restaurants, taverns, and stores. Create a place of coolness that the suburbs cannot hope to match, not a sad attempted copy of a suburb. You cannot just clean up a slum and leave it a clean slum (for a while) and then expect people to want to go there. That is just lipstick on a pig.

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[keraT]

Many of those dilapidated buildings had drug activity happening, which makes people even more nervous. I rather see clean land than a broken/empty house where I don't know who might be lurking there in dark.


Also another major problem with older houses in Detroit is lack of parking space. Most house don't have garage or have alley garage, which is not convenient unless you have a corner house. Parking in street on winter is tough. Having empty space means the house next door can expand in to building a nice attached garage or pool. Eventually catering to a different demography, those who want little bit more space to themselves either for urban gardening or their huge garage for car collection or for their kids/pets to run around in. I have friends in Hamtramck who are thinking about moving to suburb only because of parking issue, there is just not enough space to breath