Former Highland Park High School/Highland Park Community College burned down

https://twitter.com/HistoricDET/stat...87049566003200

https://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...re/9733762002/

https://www.audacy.com/wwjnewsradio/...ark-h-s-damage

http://www.detroiturbex.com/content/...phs/index.html

It was, indeed, arson!!!

Damn. Sad loss. I lived three blocks from there for 27 years. I would have been breathing that smoke like I did of so many others. It was such a beautiful stone building with great facilities. Robert Elmes of Galapagos Brooklyn [a former artspace in Brooklyn] bought it in the pipe dream of creating a Galapagos Detroit as an artspace and residency, but nothing ever came of it.

Highland Park High School in 2003 when it was a career academy.
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Backside of Highland Park High School in 2014 with Robert Elmes [left] and my late friend Tony Pieroni [aka WC3] when Elmes was pitching his Galapagos Detroit.
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Dramatic fireball image captured in video by shaneneckel on Instagram.

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Thank you for these details Lowell! I recall your home in HP of course.

So VERY sad to see this happen. Will it now sit, a ravished, burnt-out hulk as the case those two other large apartment buildings on Woodward? Even when torn down this will be a huge footprint of nothing - this property complex is huge!

Bicycled past the building today. So sad as the place was beautiful. So much history and future potential lost.

Lowell... was that the school that you and the late Tony Pieroni were showing to an out of town developer?