midwest - transplant

Athens, Rome, Ephesus, Detroit.

On Sunday night, a five-alarm fire began in a former Studebaker plant just up the street from where I work. As I write - almost three days later - fire crews are still hosing the place down. When the fire began, the five-story warehouse (as it is used now) was more than half empty, typical of most large buildings in Detroit (including the 2,000,000 [yes, million] square-foot complex I work in). Detroit is a void of a city - the city proper is populated densely by abandoned turn-of-the-century buildings. For those who haven't seen it for themselves, go here. And then take out the book Stalking Detroit.

posted by mideast-transplant @ 2:43 PM