In Search of Community - Novi, Wixom and Northville, Michigan

In Search of Community

Fenced off and now slated for demolition, this focal point of Fountain Walk awaits the wrecking ball. Below, a detail of the Lasky Building in Detroit, which like Fountain Walk, once included a theater.
UPDATE - DEMOLITION BEGINS 12/30/2006

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Another view of the doomed section of Fountain Walk. What went wrong? This was supposed to be so fun and exciting a throbbing new center for rising new city.
UPDATE - DEMOLITION BEGINS 12/30/2006

A few miles the south, across from Westland Shopping Mall, the long vacant Quo Vadis movie house attracts not buyers. Designed by World Trade Center architect Minoru Yamasaki, its Latin name begs the ironic question: Where are you going?

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