I
learned the game of handball at the Downtown
YMCA.Located
just south of the likewise doomed Downtown YWCA, it too sits
on demolition's death row. The limestone building to its left,
also condemned, is the former Detroit
College of Law
where many of the regions top lawyers received their education.
Downtown YMCA
Long
a landmark of downtown Detroit, the Downtown
YMCA was the region's first YMCA and long the headquarters
for that organization.
Allowed
to fall into disrepair as the organization abandoned Detroit
for the suburbs, it was sold for a mere five million dollars
to the stadium development authorities.
