Building partially collapses at Eastern Market

[Richard]

^ we want to believe the city is clamping down on preventing future blight but it also opens the door for those looking to have emergency demolitions that benefit them when it becomes a knee jerk reaction.

Where I am at because of property price increases the city is looking for all kinds of reasons to get long term residents to sell so they can increase property tax rates because of the higher sales price.

So outside of graft the ulterior motives are always there.

I knew a lady that had a historic 2 story downtown here,the bank called the note and took the property for a $100k note after 1 missed payment,as soon as the fast track process was done they flipped it for $4 million the next day.

I have bought historic or old properties to rehabilitate that the city deemed not structurally safe for the public and even with multiple engineer structural inspections that proved otherwise,if somebody has a plan,they are going to do what they want,unless you spend wheelbarrow loads of money in attorneys.

[Kathleen]

Eastern Market building owner files appeal, pauses demolition after partial collapse
https://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...l/70919587007/

[Kathleen]

It worked!!

Partially collapsed Eastern Market building to be repaired, not demolished
https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/...ot-demolished/

[Jimaz]

Well good. Maybe at least the root cause can be determined so similar collapses can be prevented in the future.

It's kind of spooky that there wasn't some kind of advanced warning. Or maybe there was and it just hasn't been published yet.

Even Slumpy showed wounds for a good long while before its demise.