GooBing Detroit

An archaeology of Detroit through Google Street View. “In the evolutionary urban order, Detroit today has always been your town tomorrow." - Former Detroit Mayor, Coleman Young

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Mackay Street, Detroit.

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Dropped back down the Detroit Google Street View Time Machine rabbit hole after realizing pretty much the whole city has August 2018 imagery now. Here's Hazelridge Street, northeast Detroit. 2009 - 2018. #GooBingDetroit

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Longwood Street, near John R and McNichols.

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Exeter Street, just south of 8 Mile, off John R.

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Luce Avenue and Sparling Street

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This is a kind of "Powers of Ten" of property tax foreclosure, starting w/ this block of Hazelridge St. Properties in red tax foreclosed between 2002 - 2018, though most (about 135,000 of 180,000) were tax foreclosed 2009 - 2018.

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A few more scenes of Detroit in 2009 vs. 2018, via @googlemaps Street View Time Machine. First scene from Hazelridge St. in NE Detroit.

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Map of locations in this thread. Can click around at the link to see the number / rate of properties that have gone through tax foreclosure on each of these blocks between 2002 - 2018.

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Can't get over this one on Longacre, on the west side. Six houses gone in 10 years.

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28th Avenue, near I-94 / I-96 exchange.

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Mackay Street.

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Southwest Detroit, Springwells Village

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Coplin Street, Detroit. 

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The former American Motors headquarters in Detroit. 

Oddly enough, this was a tax foreclosure auction property in 2015 -- when the once 1.4-million square foot structure sold for $500, briefly. The sale never went through, and the property was transferred to the Wayne County Land Bank. 

Last year, the site was included in a land swap that brought it to the city of Detroit, where it’s slated for redevelopment. Hopefully that’ll be a boon the the neighborhood immediately to the east of the site, which has dealt with scrappers, vandals, and the attendant issues of a 1.4 million square foot building sitting vacant and unwatched nearby their homes.