August 2012
6 posts
Detroit Vacant Property Coalition -- Area...
Detroit has the measles. In the black box are 290 tax foreclosed properties coming up for auction within the Warren Avenue Community Organization boundaries:
Last week Janai Gilmore from Michigan Community Resources reached out and asked if I’d meet with and present to a group called the Detroit Vacant Property Coalition at 6:30 on September 11. Sure, sounds like something I’d do!...
Google Streetview + Physical & Data Decay
I’ve been driving around taking pictures of vacant Detroit properties coming up at the Wayne County Tax Foreclosure Auction to post on Why Don’t We Own This. We include an image from Google Streetview on all the property pages with a link to the google map, but check out how off they can be.
These are 3 typical auction properties in North Corktown that have changed a lot since Google...
An Afternoon at the Belle Isle Zoo
Yesterday my friend Peter and I went for a bike ride to Belle Isle. The fence into the old zoo was open so we took a look around. Oh my god. Of many mind-blowingly unmaintained ruins and vacancies in Detroit, this has got to be up near the top. I had no idea it was so vast, and it’s right next to the swimming beach (here’s the satellite map, the walkway you see here is the long loop...
A Light, Open Letter To Bill McMachen In Macomb...
A couple days ago news came out that Macomb County, Michigan canceled it’s public tax foreclosure auction at the last minute and sold all 650 properties to private resident Bill McMachen for approximately $4.8 million — the cost of the total back taxes owed on all the properties. You can read about it here (first story on Fox 2), here (Fox 2 follow-up with video interview), and here...
