Quote Originally Posted by ABetterDetroit View Post
Since blaming Detroit for this building’s failure is common on this thread while the owner of the property somehow is just a victim of the city’s negligence, I will offer another theory. It could be that Detroit’s quick demolition order was intended to tell the owner of the collapsing building and their insurance company to get their shit together right quick because this building is a safety risk in a high trafficked location and messing around for half a decade would not be tolerated in this case. If that was the point they wanted to drive home it might have been successful.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...l/70919587007/
Depends on how one defines safety risk,expand the photo in your link,that’s a pretty hefty steel I beam as a header above the windows,Jack plates from that floor to the roof would secure the roof and stabilize it.

Looks like something has been done in that section in the past.

Detroit does not have any unique problems that nobody else in the country has so no need to get defensive.

Have you seen the vintage apartment building in another city where the whole side bulged and collapsed,it happens.