Michigan Central Station in Detroit opened earlier this year. Ford also restored the Book Depository building next door. It is a high-tech incubator for start-up businesses.
And it looks amazing now. I went up on that roof in 2007-08 when I was attending CCS in the city. It is one of the most incredible structures I've been in, each floor was a wreck with debris everywhere, I used to have these old brackets from the electric sockets I kept with me. My friends used to enter through the back loading bay (@9:28 if you look to the right of the frame, that road that splits, we would park up that block), go back a bit, and roll under the rotted grater. ... (I remember the Mexicantown market down that street! And you can see where Pony Ride, an artist collective to the far left, IDK if it's still there but thanks to Phil Cooley, thank you for giving me a chance to check it out. If only I stayed...) Once we got in, it was pitch black, and the floor would freeze over in the winter. And on the way up the stairs (opposite the camera angle @8:55), the window frames were blown wide open, and the iron stairs were creeping so long that we almost had to jump over some steps that were all but gone. Once you get up to the top, the ladder to the roof stairs has a huge gap, and you would have to leap to the step and then come up through the double doors. I still have the pics on my Facebook to this day, and I'll never forget the experience (and the view from the roof! You can see the Ambassador Bridge, and the Motor City Casino isn't far away.)
@@discodirk48The Michigan Central Station was the tallest train station in the world when it opened. Read Wikipedia and you'll learn it shares the same architect as Grand Central in NYC. Detroit was the richest city in the World in the 1950s. It continues to be a beautiful city on the Detroit River, sharing an international border. It's very much revitalized and continues its growth and reinvention. Detroit is great city.
The train station is now beautifully restored and Bill Ford spent millions of dollars restoring every detail. The city of Detroit is beautiful and you should visit sometime. The station btw is completed and open for tours while also a functioning office center. @@discodirk48
The Baker Hotel in Texas has a sort of a sister in the Chamberlin Hotel, Hampton, Virginia. The current building is the second on that site along the Chesapeake Bay. It was one of two resort hotels that catered to the wealthy traveling by ship to Europe. Located on a branch end of Huntington's rail road, guests could wait in comfort for the arrival of their ship. Then rest, landside before traveling home. In its glory days, the Chamberlin boasted numerous spa features. It operated a golf course (now operated by the City of Hampton) and a hunting lodge west of Williamsburg. The indoor and outdoor pools remain. The indoor pool would be filled with salt water from the Bay during the Summer. The main floor was once completely surrounded by a wide porch, a popular place to walk or rest. Over time, parts of this porch were closed off to expand the restaurants. A passenger ferry took tourist to Norfolk who could travel by street car into Downtown Norfolk. The nearby military base expanded over time and during times of war, occupied the building. There was once an underground passenger tunnel to the HQ building across the street. Now the Chamberlin operates as senior housing for elderly military.
FUN FACT: The skyscraper shown at the beginning of the movie "A Christmas Story" is the Terminal Tower in downtown Cleveland, once the tallest building outside of NYC.
The maintenance man would be the most over worked underpaid and most threatened and harassed individual in building recycled for low income. They complain the most, work the fewest hours and do the most drugs.
I helped my grandfather bring about 300 bricks on top of the roof when I was a kid. They laid there around for no reason. Does that count as an unfinished mega project.
0:07 I wish people would stop tagging like this! It’s disgusting and unsightly (probably like you!) and no one can read it or cares that it says your name or something similar!
Are the "instigators", the leaders and the architects of these structures, not compensating (in particular the males), for certain physicals inadequacies? Just a thought. Rod Morgan
Global housing crisis solutions but governments either to greedy or stupid to reallocate resources to bringing there countries up to actually becoming 1st world economies🤨😒 what a complete waste of engineering and architecture! Only one that seems to have renewed the Building is Detroit and I honestly hope that trend continues there because of all the amazing history attached to that city! Well done Detroit 👏
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Michigan Central Station in Detroit opened earlier this year. Ford also restored the Book Depository building next door. It is a high-tech incubator for start-up businesses.
I believe they call it putting lipstick on a pig haha
And it looks amazing now. I went up on that roof in 2007-08 when I was attending CCS in the city. It is one of the most incredible structures I've been in, each floor was a wreck with debris everywhere, I used to have these old brackets from the electric sockets I kept with me. My friends used to enter through the back loading bay (@9:28 if you look to the right of the frame, that road that splits, we would park up that block), go back a bit, and roll under the rotted grater.
... (I remember the Mexicantown market down that street! And you can see where Pony Ride, an artist collective to the far left, IDK if it's still there but thanks to Phil Cooley, thank you for giving me a chance to check it out. If only I stayed...)
Once we got in, it was pitch black, and the floor would freeze over in the winter. And on the way up the stairs (opposite the camera angle @8:55), the window frames were blown wide open, and the iron stairs were creeping so long that we almost had to jump over some steps that were all but gone. Once you get up to the top, the ladder to the roof stairs has a huge gap, and you would have to leap to the step and then come up through the double doors. I still have the pics on my Facebook to this day, and I'll never forget the experience (and the view from the roof! You can see the Ambassador Bridge, and the Motor City Casino isn't far away.)
@@discodirk48The Michigan Central Station was the tallest train station in the world when it opened. Read Wikipedia and you'll learn it shares the same architect as Grand Central in NYC. Detroit was the richest city in the World in the 1950s. It continues to be a beautiful city on the Detroit River, sharing an international border. It's very much revitalized and continues its growth and reinvention. Detroit is great city.
The train station is now beautifully restored and Bill Ford spent millions of dollars restoring every detail. The city of Detroit is beautiful and you should visit sometime. The station btw is completed and open for tours while also a functioning office center. @@discodirk48
The Central Station is the symbol of the new Detroit🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
The Baker Hotel in Texas has a sort of a sister in the Chamberlin Hotel, Hampton, Virginia. The current building is the second on that site along the Chesapeake Bay. It was one of two resort hotels that catered to the wealthy traveling by ship to Europe. Located on a branch end of Huntington's rail road, guests could wait in comfort for the arrival of their ship. Then rest, landside before traveling home.
In its glory days, the Chamberlin boasted numerous spa features. It operated a golf course (now operated by the City of Hampton) and a hunting lodge west of Williamsburg. The indoor and outdoor pools remain. The indoor pool would be filled with salt water from the Bay during the Summer. The main floor was once completely surrounded by a wide porch, a popular place to walk or rest. Over time, parts of this porch were closed off to expand the restaurants. A passenger ferry took tourist to Norfolk who could travel by street car into Downtown Norfolk.
The nearby military base expanded over time and during times of war, occupied the building. There was once an underground passenger tunnel to the HQ building across the street. Now the Chamberlin operates as senior housing for elderly military.
FUN FACT: The skyscraper shown at the beginning of the movie "A Christmas Story" is the Terminal Tower in downtown Cleveland, once the tallest building outside of NYC.
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I'd love to live on the top of one of those buildings.. the views would be amazing
I just love your introduction before revealing the abandoned buildings.
interesting to hear theres a building in Brazil named after an old american president
Korea: lot-tay.
Thank you.
Chris Kane showed The view to a kill😅
by any chance are you referring to Chris kane from western n.y.
Why am I so obsessed with urban blight?
The construction of the Jeddah Tower has restarted
Sad. Some of those are very beautiful.
I'm surprised that on projects with multiple buildings that there aren't connecting air bridges.
They should refurbished the buildings for low income housing.
The maintenance man would be the most over worked underpaid and most threatened and harassed individual in building recycled for low income. They complain the most, work the fewest hours and do the most drugs.
I helped my grandfather bring about 300 bricks on top of the roof when I was a kid. They laid there around for no reason. Does that count as an unfinished mega project.
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0:07 I wish people would stop tagging like this! It’s disgusting and unsightly (probably like you!) and no one can read it or cares that it says your name or something similar!
I hate it too
Are the "instigators", the leaders and the architects of these structures, not compensating (in particular the males), for certain physicals inadequacies?
Just a thought.
Rod Morgan
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This was really good, really interesting and nice to listen to clear well pronounced words. Thank you. 🦋♥️🎧
Please its ego that's all.
What a waste!
I need to say this.....
I LIKE LEGOS.
Me 2😂
2,000 story tower with mold cockroaches 🪳 broken moldy pipes poop and piss everywhere steel and concrete falling apart
There is no 2000 story tower anywhere in the world unless you were being sarcastic
@ I’m just joking
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Global housing crisis solutions but governments either to greedy or stupid to reallocate resources to bringing there countries up to actually becoming 1st world economies🤨😒 what a complete waste of engineering and architecture! Only one that seems to have renewed the Building is Detroit and I honestly hope that trend continues there because of all the amazing history attached to that city! Well done Detroit 👏