Another classic Detroit building in downtown Detroit could be headed for a date with the wrecking ball.
Louis Aguilar of The Detroit News reports that a year after the former Charlevoix Hotel near Grand Circus Park was demolished, the city is going after the empty historic building next door: the Albert Kahn-designed, 12-story Park Avenue Building.
Aguilar writes:
Last week, the city of Detroit Law Department described the condition of the building as “open, vacant and dangerous,” in a court filing in Wayne County Circuit Court. “It is the very definition of irreparable harm to the public,” the court filing said.
The building has a crumbling brick veneer, a damaged fire escape that could potentially fall off, and periodic open doors on the ground floor, the city attorneys said in the court filing.
He writes that that building is in one of the five new “neighborhoods” planned in a $650 million, 45-block district that would be anchored by the new home ice for the Detroit Red Wings.
