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Post Number: 755
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 10:31 am: |    |
I would argue the large hole in the back points to the building not spontaneously collapsing. I would argue that the city should begin to fine and take action against land owners who neglect properties. Until the city begins to take action more of this will happen. |
Higgs1634
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Post Number: 744
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 10:38 am: | |
Anyone have an over/under on how long it stays a pile of rubble? two weeks? month? year? |
Haikoont
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Post Number: 30
Registered: 09-2008
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 10:57 am: | |
I was downtown this morning and took a pic (from somewhat of a distance).
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Digitalvision
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Post Number: 1434
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 11:08 am: | |
I'm going to go out on a limb and say it'll be gone by parade day. |
Detroitplanner
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Post Number: 2001
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 11:31 am: | |
Thanks for the pics all.
One more try: Wasn't that a Church's chicken at one point? |
Leannam1989
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Post Number: 99
Registered: 06-2008
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 11:47 am: | |
You can see the building as it was on StreetView.
http://tinyurl.com/63meqc
The street wall looks pretty well intact. It's a shame to have a hole in that wall. |
One_shot
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Post Number: 403
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 12:09 pm: | |
That sucks! I remember that building and thought it was one of the more unique looking ones with that roof and all. Thats too bad. |
Lefty2
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Username: Lefty2
Post Number: 2808
Registered: 07-2007
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 12:30 pm: | |
drive down three mile in 48224, there are people right now, tearing crap out of homes and the citizens or cops don't do a thing about it.
I would shot them myself but I would go to jail. |
Bob
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Post Number: 1867
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 12:37 pm: | |
I am surprised you have not heard more about it on the news. |
Gravitymachine
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Post Number: 2408
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 12:49 pm: | |
by god, it worked! demolition by neglect really, really worked! |
Danny
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Username: Danny
Post Number: 7907
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 12:53 pm: | |
This is truly the end of Downtown Detroit. We're folks not are going to adapt for change. |
Navi
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Username: Navi
Post Number: 11
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 12:55 pm: | |
Wow, that's wild.
Thanks for sharing the pictures. |
Staticstate
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Username: Staticstate
Post Number: 8
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 3:02 pm: | |
what if Broderick collapsed - you think that might cause people to get a bit more concerned with these buildings? the constant shift of temperature and moisture cannot be good for a structure that is sitting open unheated. |
Retroit
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Username: Retroit
Post Number: 463
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 3:25 pm: | |
Anyone know where I can buy a hard hat with a Tigers emblem? |
Lukabottle
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Post Number: 172
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 3:49 pm: | |
The whole from came from people breaking into the broderick and throwing things from the roof off. The hole was created over 2 years ago from part of the equipment on the roof.
To my knowledge, which is not reliable since I no longer bartend at the Broderick, Mike Higgins owns the building that collapsed. He may have sold it since then. |
Motorcitydave
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Post Number: 145
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 3:59 pm: | |
It was demolished.... there was an excavator there the other day 'scooping' away at it...
(Message edited by motorcitydave on November 10, 2008) |
1kielsondrive
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Username: 1kielsondrive
Post Number: 494
Registered: 08-2008
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 7:02 pm: | |
That's really cool. I mean the heads up and photos. Thanks for posting. I drove by it saturday night and didn't even notice it was crumbled. |
Rhymeswithrawk
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Username: Rhymeswithrawk
Post Number: 1517
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 7:15 pm: | |
Wait, so it collapsed or it was demo'd? Motorcitydave seems to make this sound a lot less of a big deal than it is being made out to be. |
Lefty2
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Post Number: 2813
Registered: 07-2007
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 7:24 pm: | |
"Still, insane that it would spontaneously collapse."
maybe it didn't? Where's Gannon. |
Amgasper01
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Username: Amgasper01
Post Number: 89
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 8:14 pm: | |
Guys, it collapsed. Trust me. I saw it on Saturday morning, half of the building laying on the sidewalk and no construction crew in sight. Construction crews came in later in the day and were cleaning it up while that huge crowd of 12,000 was filing out of Ford Field after the WMU/Illinois game. |
Jimaz
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Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 6856
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 10:20 pm: | |
New Orleans has a custom of partying in anticipation of a hurricane and partying while returning from a funeral. The idea is to transcend tragedy.
Maybe Detroit could form a similar custom: Celebrate natural forces overtaking obsolescence to make room for progress.
It's like nature saying "I don't care whether you think it's hopeless. You'll find yourself in a place where the only thing left for you to do is heal and grow. Live with it. Enjoy." |
Mackinaw
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Post Number: 5479
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 9:42 am: | |
Well now there's a nice little plot to build a modernistic entrance atrium for the future Broderick Tower condos facing Lower Woodward.
It is duly noted that Higgins owns this property. |
1kielsondrive
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Post Number: 500
Registered: 08-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 9:48 am: | |
Remember an old saying of Detroit and Detroiters: 'Demolition by Neglect'. Thanks to Bob McKeown. |
Motorcitydave
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Post Number: 146
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 9:51 am: | |
Amgasper01, that could be correct, I can see it from my apartment window, and I noticed the excavator digging at it.
Mackinaw, I actually thought it would help if this little building was gone (collapse or demo aside), it would make a nice spot for a dumpster at the bottom of a garbage chute, and let the renovation of the tower begin.  |
Detroitrise
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Post Number: 3907
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 10:04 am: | |
quote:Well now there's a nice little plot to build a modernistic entrance atrium for the future Broderick Tower condos facing Lower Woodward.
It is duly noted that Higgins owns this property.
Let's be real here, that parcel will be a surface lots for whatever's on Woodward (likely club Bleu). |
Higgs1634
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Post Number: 749
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 10:07 am: | |
quote:Let's be real here, that parcel will be a surface lots for whatever's on Woodward (likely club Bleu).
If we're being real.. its just going to be an empty dirt lot with a really attractive chain link fence. |
Detroitrise
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Post Number: 3908
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 10:13 am: | |
quote:If we're being real.. its just going to be an empty dirt lot with a really attractive chain link fence.
Nah, that's just not the Detroit style of "re-development". |
Motorcitydave
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Post Number: 147
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 11:52 am: | |
Yeah, may be Bleu is in on it...
...speaking of Bleu, I wonder how the opening of the Italian Bistro in the old Madison Theater is cutting into their valet parking options, the valets from Bleu used to have cars parked up to, and ON to the sidewalks around there some nights... looked like hell. |
Higgs1634
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Post Number: 775
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 10:50 am: | |
havent been in the area for a while, is it cleaned up yet? Just curious. |
Enduro
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Post Number: 155
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 10:57 am: | |
Nope. Still there. |
Eastsideal
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Post Number: 60
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 11:25 am: | |
I believe that building was a Church's for awhile. I vaguely remember it in the late '60s - early '70s as being an extra size shoe store. Tall-eze, maybe? Wish I could find some pictures of that part of Woodward in the 60s or 70s. Shame about the building though. Kinda liked that oh-so-early 60s roof line. |
Danny
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Post Number: 7962
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 11:51 am: | |
I was wondering who would clean up the rubble before the America's Thanksgiving Parade? It's going to broadcast LIVE on channel 4. |
Motorcitydave
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Post Number: 150
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 11:55 am: | |
Probably not, I noticed last year that they don't seem to shoot that area... I think because the balloons have to go under the people mover track right there, so I think they just avoid it....haha. |
Sean_of_detroit
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Post Number: 2247
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 12:13 pm: | |
Doesn't that building share a basement with the Broderick Tower? |
Bob
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Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 12:24 pm: | |
Has anybody called the city about it? |
Mauser765
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Post Number: 3568
Registered: 01-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 12:58 pm: | |
No it didnt share a basement. Ive been in that one, twas several fast food joints in the past. Basement was nothing of note, back door opened in alley next to Broderick freight elevator. We used to climb on that roof to get in Broderick. |
Higgs1634
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Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 2:41 pm: | |
quote:Has anybody called the city about it?
Um, the building is in the heart of Detroit's CBD. Should calling the city really be necessary? It's not like this is in some out of the way neighborhood. |
Digitalvision
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Post Number: 1457
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 3:09 pm: | |
Just drove by it. Frankly, it looks like it was demolished, not fell down, to the not-in-the-know casual observer. I would like to think it'll be out before the parade, but I doubt it if they've not started on it yet. |
Sean_of_detroit
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Post Number: 2259
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 7:30 pm: | |
Thanks for taking pics!
You guys should consider adding your pictures to Wikipedia. |
Kryptonite
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Post Number: 20
Registered: 11-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 12:35 pm: | |
Mauser765, you have been IN Broderick Tower? I love that building. Details?? |
Busterwmu
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Post Number: 580
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 10:47 am: | |
So, is in gone? Do we have another gab in the fabric of lower woodward? It would be cool if someone could get ahold of it and even if they can't rebuild something right away, maybe they could make a very small plaza/park? |
Peterhuntprincess
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Post Number: 39
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 10:48 am: | |
So parade watchers, did the mess get cleaned up in time? |
Mackinaw
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Post Number: 5497
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 12:15 pm: | |
The 1-story building next to it needs to go, too. |
Rbdetsport
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Post Number: 539
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 2:43 pm: | |
I couldn't tell if all the rubble was gone, but there was wood boards up along the sidewalk, blocking a view of destruction. |
Fishtoes2000
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Post Number: 740
Registered: 06-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 4:33 pm: | |
...and here's the visual.
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Sean_of_detroit
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Post Number: 2304
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Friday, November 28, 2008 - 7:39 am: | |
Parking lot entrances are not allowed on Lower Woodward, right? |
Lonelycloud
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Post Number: 5
Registered: 11-2008
| | Posted on Friday, November 28, 2008 - 8:21 am: | |
What will they be building there ? |
7051
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Post Number: 183
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Friday, November 28, 2008 - 8:35 pm: | |
...an empty lot. |
401don
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Username: 401don
Post Number: 879
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Friday, November 28, 2008 - 9:52 pm: | |
...look for some pie in the sky Lonelycloud |
Thegryphon
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Post Number: 62
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, November 30, 2008 - 8:45 pm: | |
What a blessing. Like Retroit said, it saves on demo. And hey if there were to be a new parking lot, more tax dollars. I may sound a little callous, but hey it's for the best. |
Umtim
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Post Number: 35
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, November 30, 2008 - 9:19 pm: | |
Parking lots; the biggest industry downtown. |
Retroit
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Username: Retroit
Post Number: 555
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, November 30, 2008 - 9:37 pm: | |
If there is a demand for parking lots, that is a good sign. It means more people are venturing downtown, and full parking lots make the place look popular. |
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