Quote Originally Posted by Gistok View Post
As good as that may seem in Austin, are any historic or beautiful buildings being torn down there?

Here in Detroit you would think we haven't gotten to that problem yet, except we have folks like the Ilitches [[who want to tear almost everything down) and Emmett Moten [[who tore down that building behind the Fort Shelby and wants to tear down the United Artists Theatre).

But it is nice that Detroit has so much of its' historic buildings still standing. Being in the economic doldrums for so long had the benefit of the city having so many historic buildings downtown. In many downtowns the historic theatres are among the first buildings to go... Philadelphia, Baltimore and Cincinnati have no historic downtown movie palace that survived the onslaught of parking lots/garages. Detroit is very lucky to have so many, giving us the nations 2nd largest theatre district.

Same goes for other older/historic buildings in cities that replaced them with glass and steel soul-less high rises.
Detroit has an enviable amount of historical architecture that many cities would kill for. Austin’s downtown isn’t really historical at all. In fact most of its skyline came about in the last 10-15 years...no exaggeration! San Antonio to the south of us reminds me a bit of Detroit with its historic downtown and never building anything tall/new. It’s nice when you can blend a bit of both in downtowns. I’m all for preserving history and not tearing structures down to make way for glass boxes.