  Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude Post Number: 71 Registered: 03-2006 |
After viewing many aerial photos of the vacant land in Detroit, it appears that no footprint of the house/building is left at all. The basement is filled in after a home is demo'd but is the basement walls taken out too? | ||
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit Post Number: 982 Registered: 11-2003 |
That is an interesting question. I have no idea. | ||
Lmichigan Member Username: Lmichigan Post Number: 4879 Registered: 10-2003 |
Sometimes they are, and sometimes they aren't. I'm not sure if there is are any laws, and if not, city ordinances out there that address this. | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 528 Registered: 04-2006 |
yes, they do now, for a while there they did not. then they realized it was an impeadance for redevelopment. | ||
Bob_cosgrove Member Username: Bob_cosgrove Post Number: 447 Registered: 03-2005 |
City Ordinance requires walls be removed, but sometimes they're not, if the demolitioon contractor can get away with it. The logic behind removing basement walls is that it leaves a site ready for new construction. Bob Cosgrove | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 801 Registered: 12-2005 |
I remember some early wholesale house demolition in the D (mid-late 80's) where the "contractor" (two guys and a pick up truck with a trailer to haul away the debris) left the basement. This is normally considered bad, as water cannot escape the basement-remains as it normally seeped back into the ground with no basement present. It can become downright dangerous, as the area inside the basement perimeter can become a mud pit, rather than having the normal ground moisture like the land around the basement. One notable large building demolition that left the basement (it's still there) was the Hollywood theatre, Fort st. & Ferdinand. | ||
Burnsie Member Username: Burnsie Post Number: 801 Registered: 11-2003 |
Hudson's basement walls are still there, but they are incorporated into the parking structure and certainly can handle the (much smaller than the store) load of any new building that's built. | ||
Udmphikapbob Member Username: Udmphikapbob Post Number: 242 Registered: 07-2004 |
it's always wise to pay for a ground-penetrating radar scan and soil core samples when beginning to develop a vacant lot - you never know what might be buried there. | ||
Mattric43 Member Username: Mattric43 Post Number: 80 Registered: 03-2006 |
The Hollywood Theaters basement is still there? Do you have any pics? | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 3038 Registered: 10-2003 |
Yeah here is one: Here is another from the opposite view: .. | ||
Cman710 Member Username: Cman710 Post Number: 81 Registered: 07-2006 |
The pictures don't appear to have come through. Can anyone else see them? | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 505 Registered: 10-2003 |
Rustic, The basement light has burned out. | ||
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin Post Number: 3361 Registered: 10-2003 |
Pretty dark down there Rustic eh? | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 3420 Registered: 10-2003 |
LOL @ Rustic! | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 3043 Registered: 10-2003 |
hey I'm no mauser or krawlspace, but I do get around a bit ... | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 976 Registered: 01-2005 |
Place the bait, set the hook........ | ||
Barnesfoto Member Username: Barnesfoto Post Number: 2861 Registered: 10-2003 |
I have pics of the Hollywood basement too, but they are even darker. | ||
Ericdfan Member Username: Ericdfan Post Number: 186 Registered: 08-2005 |
My grandma was telling me about some houses that they tore down on the northbound Southfield Service dr and Paul. They were right behind here house on Archdale. She told me that when they tore them down, they just filled the basements in with dirt. They even left the contents of at least one of them, including a grand piano! All this made way for a small park that doesn't even exist anymore...now its just an empty field that ppl like to dump couches and tires in. |
