Do you agree with the Detroit City Council on demolition of the Michigan Central Railroad Depot?

. I LOVE THE BUILDING. It is probably my favorite building in Detroit I live downtown and really wish something could (or would) be done to renovate it. With that being said, if no one is going to do anything with it, it needs to be torn down. We need to move forward. Detroit has many: beautiful, historic, amazing… EPMTY buildings. These are eyesores of “once was Detroit”. I love the history and the architecture. BUT, its time to give up the past and move forward.

If we want to become great again, we need to do great things. That includes making the city habitable for families and single residents. No one wants to live next to an abandon building, no matter how pretty it is (or was).

Wow you got some harsh answers. No one seems to realize that your just comparing them, opposed to say its african... Anywho, I completely see your point. But Africa is far worse off. I was browsing around in the Cape Town travel spot here on Yahoo Answers and theres literally alot of people that live in that town who once dark hits they lock their doors, and sit inside on the couch with pepper spray or even a gun. No joke, I heard this from 2 different answers. Night may be a little iffy for Detroit... you may not want to go wandering around, especially if you don't know the area... but that doesn't even compare to Cape Town. I didn't think the HIV rate was high in Detriot? Thats news to me. But c'mon, its Africa we're talking about... no one will ever outbeat thier HIV percentages. No offence to Africa or anything, but its true. As for the crime, you're right. Detroit does have the highest. The most? No. But the highest per capita... which does make it the worst. Last I read the Black population there was 88%... did it go down I wonder? Cuz you're saying 80%. And yes, Detroit has very deteriorated, but they're working on building it back up. Actually I forget what bank but some bank just gave the city of Detroit one million this year to start getting things back on track. What I really think would help Detroit is get some MAJOR factory or franchise in there. That'd give alot of people jobs and not everyone would be so poor and hard off. Not to mention it would bring up the whole city altogether which would create more tourism. But its the case of getting a major company in there. Not sure who the Business Developer in Detroit is but he/she needs their butt fired and a person that can do the job put in there!

That would have been a cool casino, but that will never happen.

Tear it down.

The real piece of news is that the intern Mayor wants the money to come from the stimulus package , while city council would have the owner pay for it.

I think this is the first time since Cockrel left the council that they may have got something right.

With all that being said, it will still take years before that thing see's the wrecking ball, just look at how long it's taking to tear down Tiger stadium.

I don't understand why they can't renovate it. It was once a central location for a decent mass transit which Detroit actually had one time, believe it or not.

But I do agree it should be demolish if no one is going to take the initiative to restore such a historical land mark.

It's just too bad the city of Detroit has given up on what was at one time the largest bus/Train station in the U.S.

This is not what Obama has in mind as progress as Mayor Ken Cockrel, Jr. wanted to demolish it with stimulus money. I doubt that that resolution will get anywhere and hope that the station's owner, Maddy Moroun, will get some common sense and rehab some of the building with his billions of dollars. I don't believe that it should get torn down, but they should TRY to rehab it. I'd rather look at that maginificant structure in its own right that nothing at all. Your wrong about if it had been in another city, because those cities know true progress and would have tried to rehab like NYC did with their old train station, they didn't tear it down, they saved it.

I do agree it's about time they demolish that building, especially since no one even ever planned on fixing it and, using it again for anything. I just hope we start to see a lot more decisions like this being made in the city of Detroit.

yes, unfortunately.

I use the MCR as a landmark when traveling through the city.

Only if City Council had not been so corrupt, the MCR could have been something wonderfully.

There was plenty of plans for the old rail station, all were denied.

The place is an eyesore and needs to be demolished. The building has decayed so much, the cost of renovation is too expensive. The vagrants have stripped everything out of it and have rendered it unsafe. Blow it up and do something else with the property.

It should be preserved and used for something like many of the other train stations around the nation have been used: shopping center, hotel, housing, offices, etc. We tend to lose too many treasures due to the shortsightedness of city officials and the public.

In another city, it would not have been vacant for so long, if at all. Personally, I think it would have made a great site for one of the permanent casinos. You'd even have a traffic generator for a commuter train system then.

How long do you suppose it'll take to actually get someone to do it?