Tuesday, December 15, 2020

On Detroit Ruins And Detroiters Wanting Others To Pay For Their Upkeep

Note well that Detroit has not had a Republican Mayor since 1962 - 58 years of one-party Democrat rule has reduced the once-proud city to wrack and ruin.

So of course, people there want others to oay for restoring the ruins that they've allowed to accumulate.

Detroit Metro Times: Dear Amazon, before you bulldoze more than 80 years of Detroit music history, please read this

Both the article and the comments on the book of face are calling on Amazon to keep the bandshell there instead of demolishing it and use it for parking for the Amazon employees that will be working at the Amazon center there.  This would apparently prevent the center from expanding beyond the projected 1,200 workers, as it notes the bandshell area is projected to provide parking for 800 more workers for a total, of 2000 spots.  But of course, the author doesn't worry about that.

The bandshell they are so passionate about has been abandoned, unused, and decaying for years. 

You'll note that neither the authors nor the commenters has stepped up during the entire time it has been abandoned to refurbish it and operate it as a venue.  

Nah, instead they want Amazon to fork over the money to at least preserve it if not restore and keep it in place and then have it used for some purpose yet to be defined.

Since it has been abandoned for over a decade, the bandshell is likely going to require quite a restoration operation. 

Of course the people who did nothing about it all these years will expect Amazon to pay for such.

If kept but not restored,  Amazon would then be looking at t a decaying shell of a building on their property and likely would be ticketed by the city for blight for keeping it there.

Yes the bandshell has some history associated with the various musical acts that have played there over the years, but that's not intrinsically historic to the place itself, and the lack of upkeep by 58 years of Democrat rule has not exactly been kind to the locale. 

Expect activist groups to start protesting to save the bandshell and make Amazon pay for it, as activists love using other people's money for their pet projects. even as they have done nothing to keep it a viable location themselves for years.

2 comments:

Nuke Road Warrior said...

One (of many) peeves I have is the "Historical Building" mantra that ALL buildings with any historic occurrence MUST be preserved. i.e. "we must save this outhouse that Abe Lincoln took a dump in while on his way to his first inauguration." No I don't mean we should turn Independence Hall into a theme park, but at the same time if we preserved every slightly historic building, we'd be up to our, ahem, behinds in buildings with limited usability.

Old NFO said...

And watch Amazon leave in three... two...