What was demolished behind the Cliff Bells?

[Whitehouse]

Wasn't that all part of the Adams Theater?

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Still nothing that replaces it? What was the point?

[EastsideAl]

Still nothing that replaces it? What was the point?

That's my question about most things that are torn down around here, since so little of the destruction of our built heritage in Detroit seems to result in meaningful replacement [[or replacement takes a generation or more, as with the Kern Block Compuware site). Just either surface parking or a rubble-strewn lot,

The answer always seems to be "well, it was old and we weren't using it anyway" or "we might have used it, but we left it open to trespass and, oops, it was stripped and/or burned and will now cost too much to repair" or "it's in imminent danger of collapse" [[despite the fact that it, and similar buildings all over the country, have stood collapse-free for many decades), and almost always "future developers [[and at this point wholly theoretical ones) will be much happier with a pre-cleared site, so we'll just do the work for them." Of course, one of the not-so-well-hidden secrets behind all of this is that demolition is one of the few lucrative industries around here, and one that is deeply tied to government and those who do the governing. Or, in the case of Mike Illitch who tore down the Adams, deeply tied to those who have the most influence with the government. There is money to be made, and campaign contributions to be generated [[and, some would say, kickbacks to be gotten), from all that destruction.

[REL]

Still nothing that replaces it? What was the point?

LMAO. Oh, Detroit! You!