Quote Originally Posted by SyGolden48236 View Post
But in answer to your question as to why the building still stands, in many cases these edifices are owned by the city of Detroit and that city does not have the financial ability to raze facilities such as these. Often there is tremendous environmental remediation work which must be performed at great expense in conjunction with demolition.
In addition, many of those building were built in the early days of reinforced concrete; to make sure they could handle the heavy factory equipment, they were over engineered. They are difficult to tear down.