🚨 LOST POWER: If you’ve lost power in Michigan tonight, don’t hold your breath.
Michigan ranks DEAD LAST in power restoration times...a DIRECT result of a DTE monopoly that has spent years buying political influence across the state.
#Detroit, Glenwood St, 2009-2022. This block, located in the Maplewood neighborhood near 7 Mile & Gratiot, was fairly stable into the 21st century. Once the 2007-09 recession and proceeding foreclosure crisis hit, its decline was rapid. It didn't take long for the homes on this once middle class street to disappear.
#Detroit, Cass Ave, 1940's-2025. This view looks toward downtown, 20 years before the Cass Corridor became a haven for down-on-their-luck addicts, resulting in a steep jump in vice & crime. Some of that moved to the corridor from old Skid Row on Michigan and Chinatown along Third, both of which were cleared in the early '60's. The decline levelled off by the '90's, but recovery began in the mid 2010's with construction of the Red Wings arena. The old Hotel Fort Wayne, opened in 1926, followed the trends of the corridor. Despite a reno and renaming to the American Hotel in the '70's, its clientele remained highly transient, especially for prostitution. It closed in the early 2000's, and has since been purchased by an Ilitch run LLC. It's prime location will be its savior, though there is no time frame. This strip of Cass is still in its early, decades long stage of redevelopment.
it would honestly be really easy to build a new downtown rail terminal in detroit, there's one area of city blocks between the current rairlroad and the edge of downtown that has nothing but scattered light industrial buildings and parking lots