Former Highland Park High School/Highland Park Community College burned down

[masterblaster]

https://twitter.com/HistoricDET/stat...87049566003200

https://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...re/9733762002/

https://www.audacy.com/wwjnewsradio/...ark-h-s-damage

http://www.detroiturbex.com/content/...phs/index.html

[Danny]

It was, indeed, arson!!!

[Lowell]

Damn. Sad loss. I lived three blocks from there for 27 years. I would have been breathing that smoke like I did of so many others. It was such a beautiful stone building with great facilities. Robert Elmes of Galapagos Brooklyn [a former artspace in Brooklyn] bought it in the pipe dream of creating a Galapagos Detroit as an artspace and residency, but nothing ever came of it.

Highland Park High School in 2003 when it was a career academy.




Backside of Highland Park High School in 2014 with Robert Elmes [left] and my late friend Tony Pieroni [aka WC3] when Elmes was pitching his Galapagos Detroit.

[Lowell]

Dramatic fireball image captured in video by shaneneckel on Instagram.

[Zacha341]

Thank you for these details Lowell! I recall your home in HP of course.

So VERY sad to see this happen. Will it now sit, a ravished, burnt-out hulk as the case those two other large apartment buildings on Woodward? Even when torn down this will be a huge footprint of nothing - this property complex is huge!

[cassique]

Bicycled past the building today. So sad as the place was beautiful. So much history and future potential lost.

[Gistok]

Lowell... was that the school that you and the late Tony Pieroni were showing to an out of town developer?