Just what exactly are you proposing here!?

Quote Originally Posted by detroitlives View Post
Adaptive reuse is the best answer for Ford Auditorium--not spending millions on tearing it down. Draw on the deep well of creativity in Southeastern Michigan and develop a plan for a 21st century use for the building--instead of simply bulldozing an amazing example of midcentury modernist architecture, built of marble and granite. Demo'ing old buildings is the surest way to obvlivion as a city. Grappling with the hard questions, and finding innovative solutions for the future, preserving what is great from our past, is really what we should be looking at.

Huzzah to the Council for its forward-thinking today.

[[This futuristic rendering of the Ford Auditorium is from this past discussion about reusing the theater for a contemporary arts museum).