The historic Highland Park Police Station in Highland Park, just off of Woodward Avenue, came down by building eater on Tuesday of this week. An article about the demolition can be found here: http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2012/01/photos_crew_demolishing_histor.html
My pictures were shot back in 2003, over the last 9 years, the building has become vandalized, and looted and open to the elements. I love the old “Fallout Shelter” sign to the right of the door.
The building was in shambles 9 years ago, crumbling in front of our eyes, and now it’s gone. Highland Park is an amazing boom to bust story.
It’s a shame that this once important building bit the dust, on a positive note a new Fire Station is supposed to take its place.
Take a trip insdide the station here: http://www.detroiturbex.com/content/healthandsafety/hppolice/hppolice.html
An interesting overview of Highland Park from a few years ago…
Have a good weekend everyone! See you back here Monday.
They should tear down the entire city of Highland Park, most of Detroit, and start anew.
Tearing done buildings does not help the problem, amagamating Highland Park, Hamtramick, and Detroit into one city to eliminte duplication of servics. One step would be to create one publickly funded school system,this does not mean to eliminate religustly funded schools. In Highland Park school system the have under 1000 students, elememtry and high school combined, for this you have a fuu administration, probably similar number in Hamtramick, duplicating Detroit and Highland Park with administraters.
Combine into one city to save on duplication of burocrats, save money and try to intice companies to move back into the core. Then maybe they can stop the further decline in the area.
Richard… although Hamtramck is not a wealthy city, it is doing far better than Detroit. my wife and i often go to dinner in ham town and you don’t even need a sign to tell you when you’ve crossed the city limits. i would agree that highland park could probably be amalgamated into Detroit but Hamtramck would never agree, it would be a fatal decision.
I would believe think that Windsor should annex LaSalle and Tecumseh. Although Windsor is no less guilty when it comes to this, LaSalle and Tecumseh are really nothing but suburban sprawl. To curve this trend we need to amalgamate the three municipalities and develop a plan stop suburban development on greenfield sites.
Highland Park is full of wonderful buildings from the first decades of the 20th Century. The Ford model a plant, the public library many outstanding church complexes and hundreds of fine houses still exist and until they’re torn down they can be saved. Take a drive some Sunday afternoon and see what’s left.
I also belive that LaSalle and Tecumseh should be part of Windsor, this should have been done in the sixties when Riverside, and the builtup area of Sandwitch East where. If the spral continues one day Windsor could be like Detroit, we have already lost most retail stores “downtown”.
I agree they should both become parts of Windsor.
Detroit needs to offload property and shrink in size to be manageable. Windsor annexing Lasalle and Tecumseh is a tax grab and all will be the worst for it!!!
I would take it Robert you do not reside in Windsor, duplication of service, adminitrations, will end with higer taxes for all. The school boards discovered this and formed one seperate and one public board for the county. For the connected areas it make sense for all, taxes are going up for everybody in time but consolidation may mean lower increases.
Running one city and two towns will be higher than one large city.
I wonder if any elements of the building were saved?
Robert, how would “all be the worst for it”? And it what way?
Could you possibly be just trolling?
Another point.. When the discussion regarding amalgamation comes to the table people always cry taxes!! But the truth of the matter is, taxes in the suburbs are going up and soon will be the same or higher than Windsor. (all those cul-de-sacs don’t repave themselves for free). It’s not just about property taxes, its about reducing administration as Richard mentioned, its also about bring services to these towns that do not currently exist (buses in tecumseh is one example). We need more regional colaboration and less bickering between these towns and amalgamation is how we can acomplish that!
Wow.. Sorry to hijack the tread.
Dave.. Things usually CAN be saved, but demolition of buildings like this in Detroit is so common, I highly doubt they will bother to save anything.. I’m sure the scrappers have all the copper already.