"Tear it down, I'm tired of looking at it, blah, blah, blah."
What a terrible reason to drive public policy decisions. I'm tired of looking at a lot of things, like Walmarts, chotchy guys with goatees driving SUVs...I could go on all day.
More than half of downtown Detroit has already been torn down within the past 50 years and at this rate the rest of it will be gone within the next 50. Decisions of public policy in this city need to be looked at in the bigger picture in terms of how it will affect things now and in years to come. Like selling off public parks or dissolving school districst. Issues like this seem to bring out the shallowest of the short-sighted folks. Ever been to Rome? I'm glad they didn't tear down the Colloseum when it was empty and being used as a motel by vagrants and prostitues.