Suburban Detroit's most spectacular ruin site award has to belong to the abandoned Bloomfield Park development. It supplants the Fountain Walk disaster and surpasses it in that Fountain Walk was actually partially occupied and continues to struggle on mostly due the presence of the Emagine Theaters.


The scale of this disaster can only be appreciated by viewing large scale panoramas.
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A forlorn construction site sign lies in the mud. The site, no longer fenced, secured or guarded, sits like an immense embarrassment astride Telegraph. Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson wants it torn down, but in these distressed times of tight money and gross excess of residential and commercial property, Bloomfield Park seems likely to continue its mocking presence.


This undefined structure seemingly was to provide a gateway to the planned mixed residential and retail complex.
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Panorama with unfinished parking lots on the south end. The cars on the left are parked for a drapery business, one of the scattering of businesses on Telegraph that abut the project. Such lots provide easy access to the unfenced, unposted and unguarded site.
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One thing is immediately striking, the abundance of parking space. This massive structure at the south end of the project overlooks a peaceful wetland that was filled with ducks and blue heron on the day I captured this view.
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What do you think should be done with this project?