November 11, 2013 | CBS Detroit
Ridding Detroit of thousands of burned-out and dilapidated structures is an ongoing issue in the city struggling for a comeback.
And there’s a pilot project under way to figure out if there’s a way to do it in a way that gets jobs, adds value and does no environmental damage.
Using 10 abandoned houses as a case study, a pilot project in Detroit’s Springwells Village is under way to evaluate the environmental effects and cost-worthiness of using partial deconstruction as a way of eliminating dangerous structures in Detroit. [...]