Detroit Photo of the Day

[urban_izzy]

It's always best to photograph things when you get the chance, because you might never see them again!

[Allan]

Yep, look here: http://flickr.com/photos/allanm/sets/72157602215273128/

To even get access to the stadium required coordination with roughly 20 city departments, as well as about $7500 in fees waived. It was a big tangled mess, and I'm thankful to my friend for being so persistent in setting up our tour. It literally took about 3-4 months to coordinate everything. In retrospect, it might've been easier to just slip the guard $100. I do know some people that slipped in through a little-known opening, but it was an incredibly dangerous venture that involved a ladder.

I'm not totally updated on the Tiger Stadium situation, but I do know that the dugout to dugout section won't be touched until August 1st to give the Tiger Stadium Conservancy a final chance to raise more money to save the stadium.

The city hired someone to come in and take 6000 sepia photographs of the stadium. I am working on obtaining access to view those images.

[statedude3]

I agree about the condition of the Depot. I was in there last week for the first time in about a year and it was really shocking what sort of damage has been done in that time. While in the paper factory the week before we some punk ass teens throwing stuff out the windows on the east side of the tower. It took everything in me from hunting them down. I'm not sure what I would have said, but that sort of destruction is just not necessary. I know the damage they are doing is not hurting anything in the long run, but who gives them the right to destroy what they do not own?

Take pictures and memories, leave just your footprints. How hard is that to understand?

[WayneTigers]

Does anyone have a photo of the old Chrysler HQ in Highland Park? I've been looking but can't find one anywhere.

[wolverine]

Sheesh, look at the edge of the parapet of MCS. 3 years ago it was in excellent condition. Now it's destroyed. Here comes more water infiltration. The north walls are in terrible shape due to receiving no sunshine to evaporate water quickly, whereas the South side of the building's facade remains in decent condition.

[urban_izzy]

I agree about the condition of the Depot. I was in there last week for the first time in about a year and it was really shocking what sort of damage has been done in that time. While in the paper factory the week before we some punk ass teens throwing stuff out the windows on the east side of the tower. It took everything in me from hunting them down. I'm not sure what I would have said, but that sort of destruction is just not necessary. I know the damage they are doing is not hurting anything in the long run, but who gives them the right to destroy what they do not own?

Take pictures and memories, leave just your footprints. How hard is that to understand?

[JeffM]

[JeffM]

[RustTown]

The city hall, if you ask me, is actually one of the least stark of the differences in HP from its past.

[JeffM]

The city hall, if you ask me, is actually one of the least stark of the differences in HP from its past.

[urban_izzy]

Finally got up and took some pictures of the stadium today. Thought this one was pretty symbolic.

About 120 more pics here.

Edited July 11, 2008 by urban_izzy

[urban_izzy]

[Michigonian]

Cool pic! Looks like a nice place for a high speed communter train.

[RustTown]

Where you take that last photo from, Izzy? Really, those are some great photo subjects.

[urban_izzy]

Where you take that last photo from, Izzy? Really, those are some great photo subjects.

[urban_izzy]

Adaptive reuses anyone??

and you can't say luxury lofts, that's a cop-out.

[Jasoncw]

It would be a good industrial building, lol.

It could also be a casino (unique in that it would have windows).

Or part of a convention center (the lower levels could be built into a larger base, and the upper levels could be made into smaller spaces, conference areas, and a parking garage).

They could be office buildings.

I think they could be a lot of different things. You could even reclad them to make them look like the Greektown Casino Hotel if you wanted to.

[URBbum]

Since this is a thought completely from the top of my head and just looking at it. I think it would be great to have the taller structure house professional offices and the structures in the background be mixed income housing and having the common areas (unable to see over horizon) set up as a street market environment. I think this would be pretty cool, I might be the only one, but it's better than the homogenized developments that keep sprouting up.

[urban_izzy]

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Anyone know what is going on here by the National African American History Museum and The Science Center??

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It is always nice to see a parking garage being torn down. Whats going in its place?

[toog05]

Maybe the new school that they were talking about at the Science Center.

[Jasoncw]

That's what it would seem like. Glad that it's going along.

[urban_izzy]

Some one mentioned to me yesturday that the city was going to put into place a ban on hourly hotel rates. I don't see that being helpful to a place like this:

I don't know what is better, a business that supports crime or a vacant building that supports crime.

[detroitfan]

A rendering of the renovated Argonaut shows the garages removed with a parking lot and some type of building in its place

http://www.collegeforcreativestudies.edu/argonaut

Edited July 18, 2008 by detroitfan

[urban_izzy]

Probably been done before, but at least there is a photo of the day

[urban_izzy]

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