I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in
People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then?
In Detroit there are a lot of houses they are going to demolish because no one is taking care of them.
It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.
The world is sagging, snagging, scaling, spalling, pilling, pinging, pitting, warping, checking, fading, chipping, cracking, yellowing, leaking, stalling, shrinking, and in dynamic unbalance.
Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.
Blight is like a cancer. This is one of those all-or-nothing things.
If you really think about it, the stadium can't last forever. There is going to have to come a time when it replaces.
