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News: Detroit full of abandoned buildings, city nears bankruptcy
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Detroit full of abandoned buildings, city nears bankruptcy
Left to rot: Detroit’s 40,000 abandoned and empty buildings awaiting demolition as decaying city nears bankruptcy
- Thousands of shops, homes and offices lie disused of Detroit's streets, awaiting demolition or renovation
- Buildings include historical temples and theatres, as well as one of the Michigan city's nursing centres
- Many of the buildings are covered in graffiti, while others are boarded up and falling into ruin
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These eerie pictures shows some of the nearly 40,000 abandoned or empty buildings in Detroit, as they wait to be either demolished or renovated as the city nears the completion of its bankruptcy proceedings.
Thousands of shops, homes and offices sit empty and rotting on Detroit's streets, as well as two beautiful former synagogues - one of which had become a theatre.
Many of the dilapidated buildings are now covered with graffiti, while others are boarded up, with the sad signs of once bustling local stores fading in the sun.
The Michigan city filed for chapter nine bankruptcy on July 18 last year, becoming the largest municipal bankruptcy by debt in U.S. history. This debt is estimated at around $18-20billion.
Chapter nine bankruptcy is the chapter of the United States Bankruptcy Code designed for towns and cities which aims to help them restructure their debts.
The city's progress is currently being threatened as a major creditor is objecting to the debt restructuring plan, who say it will fail, and they want it ditched before the trial, which is due to begin next week.
Detroit's bankruptcy is down to problems which started all the way back in the 1950s, with elected officials failing to make important economic and political decisions that might have saved it from the state it is in today.
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The former Temple Beth El on Woodward Avenue was a synagogue used between 1922 and 1973. Beth El, founded in 1950, is the oldest Jewish congregation in Michigan
The Bonstelle Theatre on Woodward Avenue was the Temple Beth El between 1902 and 1922, before it became a theatre used by Wayne State University. It is influenced by Roman and Greek temples, and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982
An old shop's signs fade in the sun - a sad reminder of what Detroit once was as the city becomes the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz3AHrvLjeE
So many beautiful old buildings decaying like that.
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Whole side of my dad's family is from there and it is such a bleak place, but I still feel it has potential.
First thing they need to do is demolish most of those buildings cause they are such a ****ing eyesore.
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Well, the number of abandoned buildings won't stop growing: the city's population halved in the last 50 years.
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The city never really recovered from the riots, and it's sad. And people ask why I don't move back. 
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Those buildings look so cool though
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I would love to visit the abandoned places and take pictures, but I'm pretty sure I would get mugged. 
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Is anyone surprised? I mean no one in their right mind would willingly move there 
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I would love to visit the abandoned places and take pictures, but I'm pretty sure I would get mugged. |
This! I love abandoned buildings and I want to do a photoshoot located somewhere like these streets
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I would love to visit the abandoned places and take pictures, but I'm pretty sure I would get mugged. |
As bad as the media and entertainment make Detroit out to be, it is not dangerous to the point where you'll get robbed or shot out of the blue. Most of those abandoned buildings exist near the Downtown Detroit area, and most of that area is safe.
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1950 1,849,568
1960 1,670,144
1970 1,514,063
1980 1,203,368
1990 1,027,974
2000 951,270
2010 713,777
The decline of the population of the city
Tragic.
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Originally posted by Scherzy
1950 1,849,568
1960 1,670,144
1970 1,514,063
1980 1,203,368
1990 1,027,974
2000 951,270
2010 713,777
The decline of the population of the city
Tragic. |
I'm scared for 2020's numbers. To put things into perspective, Washington DC has a population of around 500,000, and it is significantly smaller than Detroit is (in square miles).
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What happened to it tho? Why is it like this?
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Detroit Rock City 
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What happened to it tho? Why is it like this?
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well...
anyways I got a job offer there, but I don't really want to take it
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I love looking at Detroit real estate sites. You can buy perfectly fine houses for literally one dollar.
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Wow that city is truly going down. I've never been and from the way things look, that won't change.
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I'm going here for the first time later this month. Some of these buildings are beautiful. Detroit does not deserve this 
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Um honey Detroit already filed bankruptcy.
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