Those taxes are largely the reason scrappers haven’t come in and solved the blight problem of Detroit.
There is a guy near me who does large scale salvage. He drools over some of the old red brick and copper roofs in Detroit. He checked into it and the city said he was welcome to them but he had to take possession of the properties and assume responsibility for the taxes.
The area is massive and I thought that offering metal detecting tours would be awesome. It would be a revenue stream the city could utilize. I would go on a trip like that for the opportunity to hunt abandoned yards, and if they leveled the homes it would be even better.
There are other issues with the idea but I think it would be workable.
There has to be lots of valuable coins and relics from the turn of the century buried there.