Photo: Hotel Eddystone (left) and he Park Avenue Hotel have been vacant for more than a decade. Photos by Steve Neavling.
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Steve Neavling of Motor City Muckraker reports that the graffiti has been removed from a pair of vacant, towering, windowless hotels from the booming 1920s in Midtown.
Still, he writes that the fate of the two structures -- the Park Avenue Hotel and Hotel Eddytone -- is unclear. The buildings are in the middle of the desolate area that is about to be transformed into a $650 million Red Wings arena and entertainment district.
Neavling writes:
While the buildings’ fate remains entangled in a potential legal battle with preservationists and Detroit City Council, workers this week began rolling over years of graffiti with yellow paint. The buildings were a popular target for graffiti writers, and several years ago they covered every exterior wall with paint as high as the hand could reach. Then came along vandals with paint-propelled fire extinguishers to scrawl even higher on the buildings.
