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Dear Ilitches: Nobody Moves To Detroit For The Surface Parking Lots

When it comes to planning our city, we had hoped developers might have learned a lesson after the demolition spree of the last few decades, where building after building was torn down for surface parking lots. After all, Dan Gilbert (and a host of other developers, large and small) have clearly shown that people want to be part of re-using historic structures, whether for locating their office there or making the place their new home. It seems that message hasn’t made it to the offices of th...

Barat House Bites The Dust, Demolished By DIA For Parking Lot

An example of mid-century architecture and former home of psychiatric services to troubled girls behind the Detroit Institute of Arts is being demolished. The work at The Barat House at John R. and Frederick began over the weekend, with construction equipment making quick work of the two-story structure that was built by the League of Catholic Women in 1961. The demolition has raised the heckles of some in the preservation community, as the Barat House was designed by Robert Harter Snyder, a...

Here's Your Detroit Reading List for February 1, 2015

Good morning! Hope you’re staying out of the crazy wind and snow out there. Here are five stories we found interesting around the web this week about Detroit, posts that are either interesting, in-depth, or noteworthy in other ways. We’ve had a reading list before, but we thought we’d touch it up a little bit and hopefully make it more useful. If you have an article you think should be featured, send it in on our submission form, Twitter @TheDailyDetroit or on Facebook. Whatever works for you....

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