I’m surprised some entrepreneur hasn’t made a little business buying up some of those homes cheap, dismantling them and reselling.
It’s pretty rare to see an all-brick home these days because of the expense, although I imagine the labor and transport costs would be substantial, not to mention the security costs during the demolition.
All the copper/brass has probably been stripped-out already, and new brick is 20x cheaper (incl mega-labor) than dismantling old brick and cleaning it up for re-use.
If the Taj Mahal was moved to Detroit - in two years it would be a run down crack house... and no one, not one living soul would want to live there.
Detroit: the city that has used EVERY liberal idea for decades... One big seething Michael Moore angry pity party... No entrepreneur's going to take on that open sewer...
Don't kid yourself, property is being gobbled up by very wealthy investors in the prime areas on both sides of Jefferson Ave. leading towards the Pointes.......Inner city, not so much but they have been auctioning off property. The biggest problem with buying that property and hanging on to it is paying the back taxes then the taxes going forward...........
Besides, unless the city iteself gets repopulated with manufacturing plants such as the one I worked for, nobody wants to live there. Folks who live downtown in the new condos and lofts work down there. Nobody in their right mind would live downtown then commute to Troy to work considering the horrendous traffic volume on I-75.