Quote Originally Posted by Bham1982 View Post
There's no way that 40-50 apartment buildings have been built. Maybe 3 or 4 smaller buildings have been built within a few blocks of the DIA, and all on sites that had previous buildings, so not really a net gain.

There are so many lost buildings in Midtown it would be difficult to tally. But I'm old enough to remember clearly from about the early 90's, and the neighborhood was much more dense. There was a very large apartment building torn down for Wayne State parking, there was a church torn down for parking, Wayne State tore down a vibrant retail strip for a useless lawn and there are many other examples. There was the Vernor's site, a nearby apartment building along Woodward torn down, and a number of buildings along Cass torn down. And obviously the city was much denser/more vibrant in earlier decades.

Most of the Cultural Center building projects are just expansions of existing buildings [[CCS, African American Museum, Science Center) and replaced previous urban fabric. Garages are highly destructive to the urban fabric.


The buildings highlighted in green are new since 1999. The apartment buildings [[I just counted over 50 of them) were built on what was basically urban prairie.

The big CCS building that is literally right across the street from Barat House replaced a parking lot.

You can do the same for the WSU area on google earth. A few buildings here and there have been demolished, but a fair number of new buildings have been built too.

Now, you brought up Trump. But who's the one who's talking out of his ass making claims that are easily disproven by photographs available to everyone? Who's the one who insists he's right on every topic that he inserts himself into, because he's just so superior to everyone that being wrong just isn't a possibility? Who's the one who after being proven wrong, blusters around denying it, and then disappears and pretends that nothing ever happened in the first place? And who's the one who has been doing this over and over for years and years and still hasn't gotten a clue? Everyone, Bham1982 will Make DetroitYES Great Again!!