I agree with some of the comments above about the tourist aspect of Detroit's ruins being a dated subject.

This is particularly true of Downtown Detroit. Looking back to when I launched the Fabulous Ruins of Detroit tour as compared to today, it is like day and night. Every major abandoned and falling-into-ruin site in downtown Detroit has been restored or is being restored -- Cadillac Hotel, Fort Shelby Hotel, Whitney Building, Broderick Tower, GAR Building, Metropolitan Building, United Artists Building, Wurlitzer Building, Book Tower, Stott Building, and many lesser sites have been recovered, are being restored or have credible restoration plans in place. Next up the Eddystone and American Hotels.

While the final results are still in question, two of the "marquee" sites of any old days Detroit ruins tour, the Michigan Central Depot and the Packard Plant, have undergone partial recovery and both are now guarded and surveilled.

In many ways the Detroit story now is far more about recovery than ruin.