New
Development, Cars, Ruins, three deeply interrelated facets
of the face of Detroit meet in this image.
UPDATES 2005
Riverfront
Apartments
New
meets old along Detroit's west riverfront. In the background,
along the river shore, rises one of the towers of the bland
but expensive Riverfront Apartments.
One
of the uses of Detroit's abandoned buildings is as billboards.
In an ironic twist, the yellow sign on the side of the shell
of the 1250 Fort Street Building touts the luxury Riverfront
Apartments.
Built
in the early eighties, the hugely successful Riverfront Apartments
have dispelled the myth that people of means would never again
inhabit Detroit. The solution was simple, a dramatic location
on the river combined with fortress-like security.
