Next up on the chopping block is the 1920’s era Field house in Wilson Park. As you may or may not know, the city agreed to a land swap with the school board. In exchange for taxpayers giving 3 acres of Wilson park to the School Board to build the replacement to Benson School, we’ll inherit a vacant lot where the current 80 year old Benson sits. Guess what’s planned for that site? You guessed it, a parking lot.
A view of Wilson Park from behind the field house. Soon this view will be gone as the new school will replace parkland.
Here is a vintage photo of the field house that comes from Wayne State University and the Virtual Motor City project. The photo above dates to the late 20’s early 30’s.
There is a twin to this field house at the corner of Erie and McDougall in Wigle Park. That one is scheduled for restoration, although with the impending budget cuts, that project may end up on the backburner.
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i can't believe those graffti assholes had to put their mark on the mural on the wall no respect for anyone i'd like to catch one of these jerks and spray paint their face
That building is still there. The mural is different, but it still stands. The one at Wigle Park is still there. The roof line is quite different from this one.
I live in one of those houses on the street behind that field house. The Ministry of Education (the ones that gave approval to the Public Board to build the school) failed the environmental assessment for the new school, and the Ministry of the Environment said they had to do an even more rigorous Environmental Impact Statement (which they also failed). J.E. Benson School will probably be torn down (eventually), though they discovered CRAPLOADS of asbestos in it, so...demolition or even deconstruction will be very difficult, time-consuming, and costly as all hell. In fact, as long as it`s not disturbed, the building could be used as offices or something else... it's best to just leave that asbestos alone if it can be helped. Now the city wants to close Adie Knox Arena (plummeting my property value, thanks a lot, shitty-- er, city hall!) Windsor Water World, and all the other pools just to funnel everyone to the overpriced and over-expensive Aquatic Center. Yeah... never gonna happen. They should've spent the 90 million dollars building that on our somehow-worse-than-Detroit roads instead!