I was looking at Dwell's on-line site and they had a great renovation of a town home in Detroit's Lafayette Park designed by Mies Van Der Rohe.
I was curious so I went on-line and found a couple of these town homes going for as little as $13,000. One unit which had been totally done up mid century style was 150k. But that was by far and away the highest price.
I'm curious...what is this area like? I've been through Detroit once on the way to Canada when I was a kid. I've heard the city is falling apart. Houses being offered for a dollar. A few hundred a day being torn down. City in bankruptcy. But still...interesting to think that a Van Der Rohe chair now costs more than one of his houses. Have the photos in Dwell been seriously photoshopped? Because the pictures of that townhouse on the outside look NOTHING like the pictures on the outside in the real estate photos.
Maybe someone could fill me in. Is this the same area at all? Some of the townhouses look similar on the outside. Black windows and floor to ceiling glass. But where are the grassy areas and plantable areas they talk about?
versus...
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I seem to recall... many moon ago... attending an odd birthday party in a dwelling located in this Detroit Meis designed complex (Lafayette), and remember it being sorta cool. At the time I was living (15 years or more....) in a Meis building on the lake in Chicago...and was quite anxious attend the silly party just to see the bones of this Meis structure. It was all good.
Bloated, blazed and blessed,
Aunt Mark
Bad area, huh?
The news i...
Bad area, huh?
The news is the deal on this 159k condo fell through and they upped the price.
http://detroit.curbed.com/archives/2014/05/mies-town-house-deal-falls-th...
It looks suspiciously like the one in Dwell. I mean...the kitchen tile is different and the colors are different, but...I don't know. Maybe they all look the same.
Read the comments in this...
Read the comments in this article...
Seems like a few others agree with your assessment of the neighborhood.
837$ in condo fees. Guessing that's because you've got to pay for all the foreclosures and run down empty properties that aren't footing their portion of the bill.
http://detroit.curbed.com/archives/2014/05/mies-town-house-deal-falls-th...
"YBI 4life 8
Is the glass bulletproof?"
It's sad to see great homes l...
It's sad to see great homes like this going.
$1,000 dollar though...
I myself don't need a home, but I don't see why people who are struggling really hard to afford homes wouldn't be tempted by this. Couldn't it enjoy a gentrification? Record numbers of people throwing themselves off the Golden Gate bridge...squeezed out by SF's high housing prices?
We're all just rushing to a handful of inaffordable areas...mega rich zip codes.
http://detroit.curbed.com/archives/2014/05/several-gigantic-homes-are-he...
Blight tourism
is fascinatingly terrible, there are a ton of videos about it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs6l3Au837M
You might get a couple of
people posting here with their insider impressions and opinions about this area. Or you could google "lafayette park detroit crime" and get actual statistics.
http://www.areavibes.com/detroit-mi/lafayette+park/crime/
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