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Username: Viziondetroit
Post Number: 370
Registered: 11-2003
Posted From: 65.42.23.2
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 11:27 am: |    |
When I was out shooting pics last week, I got some great shots from a parking garage. I noticed that beyond Woodward looking west and it is a ghost town. You see the street level all lite up and then look above and you see the forgotten Detroit. It really sucks how dim the skyline is over Woodward and how many vacant buildings there are. It's great to see construction, but what do we do with all the skeletons in the same view as the newer structures?
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Matt
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Username: Matt
Post Number: 1038
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 208.49.95.12
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 11:47 am: | |
We're just conserving electricity. :P |
Viziondetroit
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Username: Viziondetroit
Post Number: 371
Registered: 11-2003
Posted From: 65.42.23.2
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 11:50 am: | |
lol I wish that was the case |
Quinn
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Username: Quinn
Post Number: 705
Registered: 01-2005
Posted From: 64.139.64.80
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 11:58 am: | |
All good things come in time. I remember in the mid nineties they didn't bother lighting the Penobscot Building (I'd like to think they started when I send them a letter with a photoshop rendering of the building lit up at night...coincidentally they started lighting it about 2 months after I sent the letter...I am a genius ;P )
ANYWAY...now they are lighting the david stott tower. The two taller buildings you see in this photo are currently or will soon be inhabited by businesses (the Book Tower) and condos (Broderick). I bet the book tower will be lit soon. And the broderick as soon as it's done.
I repeat...all good things come in time.
Maybe I should do a night version of the book cadillac lit up? Hmmmmm.
-Quinnly. |
Viziondetroit
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Username: Viziondetroit
Post Number: 374
Registered: 11-2003
Posted From: 65.42.23.2
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 12:01 pm: | |
thats great to hear that those buildings will be put to use. What happened to the funding and such for the Book Cadillac? |
Tetsua
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Username: Tetsua
Post Number: 582
Registered: 01-2004
Posted From: 68.42.78.219
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 12:09 pm: | |
Quinn you should send renderings of lit up buildings to all the building owners in the CBD |
Viziondetroit
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Username: Viziondetroit
Post Number: 375
Registered: 11-2003
Posted From: 65.42.23.2
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 12:10 pm: | |
Long time no hear Tetsua... Our Cause Speeds On... |
Chitaku
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Username: Chitaku
Post Number: 210
Registered: 03-2006
Posted From: 68.43.107.72
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 12:58 pm: | |
The west side of downtown is kind of forgotten |
Alexei289
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Username: Alexei289
Post Number: 1118
Registered: 11-2004
Posted From: 68.61.183.223
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 4:17 pm: | |
if you look at the west side of downtown on google earth.. ESPECIALLY the northwest side... its basically nothing but greenspace (empty lots). Theres nothing to light in the middle of a field. |
Magnasco
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Username: Magnasco
Post Number: 98
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 209.69.165.10
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 4:21 pm: | |
I heard the Book got the rest of its funding this week. Not sure if that's true. |
Deputy_mayor_2026
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Username: Deputy_mayor_2026
Post Number: 25
Registered: 04-2006
Posted From: 152.163.100.8
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 4:55 pm: | |
Is that the top of Compuware's parking garage? If it is, then I have been up there before, and it offers a nice view of certian parts of downtown. |
Viziondetroit
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Username: Viziondetroit
Post Number: 378
Registered: 11-2003
Posted From: 65.42.23.2
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 4:57 pm: | |
Yep.. the view was great on all sides. It was very peaceful up there, except for the power washers cleaning the surface |
Tetsua
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Username: Tetsua
Post Number: 583
Registered: 01-2004
Posted From: 68.60.110.67
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 5:40 pm: | |
If you like those, check out these images from my roof.
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Quinn
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Username: Quinn
Post Number: 706
Registered: 01-2005
Posted From: 64.139.64.80
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 6:00 pm: | |
Hey Tetsua how is that right aid doing in your building? That's always been a favourite (your building) of mine...
BTW: sure I'll do night views lit up when I get a chance... |
Tetsua
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Username: Tetsua
Post Number: 584
Registered: 01-2004
Posted From: 68.60.110.67
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 6:16 pm: | |
The Rite Aid is doing pretty well from what I can tell, I give them steady business anyways. There always seem to be ... interesting ... characters in there though. |
Danny
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Username: Danny
Post Number: 4052
Registered: 02-2004
Posted From: 141.217.174.229
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 6:24 pm: | |
When the stores in Downtown Detroit closes after 7:00pm. The Ghost town begins. It's been like that ever since Coleman Young days. |
Viziondetroit
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Username: Viziondetroit
Post Number: 384
Registered: 11-2003
Posted From: 65.42.23.2
| | Posted on Monday, May 01, 2006 - 1:06 pm: | |
those are some great shots Tetsua... I am trying to figure out which building you are shooting from.
GOMAB |