"So Long Cass Tech", Bobb says...

[ThaFuzz]

Yet another graft induced decision to render our built environment void of any history. Thanks alot, Bobb, and the DPS, your decision making is in keeping with decades of backward, neolithic conclusions brought to us courtesy of a disaffected, bankrupt city that will, in my opinion, never recover.

No wonder it's been allowed to be ransacked in broad daylight without so much as a police officer present to witness it. That's why I'm all for scrappers salvaging what would be bulldozed by socially retarded city officials in the first place.

I was just by there the other day before returning to Miami, and noticed the bronze plaque on the corner was bent from someone trying to pry it off, as well as the Cass Technical signage carved in stone on the Fisher Freeway side which has been removed as a memento by someone.

Don't think any building is immune, the Wayne County Building, Guardian, Fisher building- any of them are in danger as long as decisions are continually made to demolish landmark buildings. Most of downtown's highrises are vacant as it is, all of them are certainly next.

As for the wrong headed thinking that restoration is more costly than demolition and reconstruction- don't even go there. It is proven time and again that done properly with the available tax breaks, private enterprise has many incentives to restore existing structures rather than demolishing and building new.

The pro-demolition metric works only when the new construction is a cheap, slapped together precast building, which isn't a fair comparison to a faithful restoration. Cass Tech would probably have been stripped of it's interior anyway and retrofitted, which would have been less costly than a historical renovation, and certainly less costly than demolishing and building new.

Can you explain how a disaffected, bankrupt city that will, in [[Lorax's) opinion, never recover rife with socially retarded city officials making graft induced decision[[s) can support a restoration done properly with the available tax breaks, private enterprise has many incentives to restore existing structures rather than demolishing and building new?

Are there unicorns on your side of the cognitive dissonance rainbow?