Thanks. Sounds about right.

All of the otherwise-positive, governmental bloviating about "cool cities" with designated "national treasures" and new initiatives to make a walkable, attactive downtown which would seemingly re-create what existed before [[see: the contrived "Paradise Valley" designation for Harmonie Park), falls SO F'ING FLAT when the same government [[at all levels) is failing to take basic steps to prevent other urban assets from disappearing in a heartbeat. We just can't get ahead. This week brought the promise of the Vanity Ballroom being brought back from the brink, yet we had to watch a contributing building NOT on the brink of ruin disappear in a heartbeat. "Bricktown" has very few bricks left now.

And I'd love to know how this demo was publicized and how it snuck past Preservation Detroit and co.

Most of all, there needs to be a moratorium on parking lots and an immediate phase out [[subject to standard grandfathering rights) to all surface parking zoning in the CBD.