Detroit targets Park Ave. Bldg. for demolition

[animatedmartian]

So the City won't issue citations or enforce the building code, but they'll spend millions of taxpayer dollars to demolish [[yet another) historic building, *HOPING* that the land will be redeveloped???

Sometimes, I think Detroit has the absolute stupidest city government on the face of the planet.

So what if the city pressures him to enforce the codes? He doesn't have to do anything even if the city threatens to demolish it. All he has to do [[and has been doing) is get a lawyer to argue that the city is wrong and he's within code.

[Mackinaw]

So what if the city pressures him to enforce the codes? He doesn't have to do anything even if the city threatens to demolish it. All he has to do [[and has been doing) is get a lawyer to argue that the city is wrong and he's within code.

Not so. The city can file the appropriate lawsuit and have a judge or jury [[likely cannot make it to a jury) make the determination. I think you forgot about that last part.

The question is what to do next. If the City is doing good by its promise to create economic redevelopment and a great American downtown, preservation is the only option, or at least one that needs to be thoroughly and properly exhausted through a policy of finding interested developers, putting them on timetables and requiring them to secure the building, and making whatever tax abatements are necessary. The only other acceptable alternative is an RFP to demo and IMMEDIATELY commence the building of something new on the site.

EMU Steve, personally, that's irrelevant. The street and the landscape is ruined whether cars use the lots or not. It is not adequate justification even if the lot is full and it has those New Jersey-style crane apparatuses to stack the cars. Just not acceptable.