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DCG posted: " DailyMail: They provide the sad physical evidence of
Detroit's descent from a once-bustling metropolis to a city on the hardest
of times. Eerily adandoned, as if the result of some global apocalypse, the
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<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/dcgere/> At least Detroit has ONE
booming industry: Photographers are flocking to capture crumbling remains
of once-glorious
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DailyMail<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529467/Detroits-derelict-buildings-provide-booming-industry-photographers.html>:
They provide the sad physical evidence of Detroit's descent from a
once-bustling metropolis to *a city on the hardest of times*. Eerily
adandoned, as if the result of some global apocalypse, the buildings - from
schools and factories to grand railway stations and family homes - have
been quietly disintegrating as scores of residents move on to find a better
life elsewhere.
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*Detroit has almost 80,000 vacant buildings*, and the larger ones can cost
more than $10,000 each to demolish. Authorities in the bankrupt city can't
afford to tear them down, and *have no choice but to let them rot*.
But the decaying landmarks have provided the beleaguered city with at least
one brisk trade - *dereliction tours for photographers who have been
arriving in their droves to record the city's decline*.
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Everything from newspaper articles to coffee-table books have been
generated by the burgeoning industry, and it has grown from a man with a
camera simply trespassing on property to well-organised paid-for tours.
The photos in this article, for example, are from a French photographers
Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre.
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Jesse Welter was one of the first to spy an opportunity in the growing
interest in dying Detroit, and *charges now $45 for a three-hour tour* of
such places as the Packard Automotive Plant, the East Grand Boulevard
Methodist Church and the imposing Central Depot train station.
Welter told the LA
Times<http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-detroit-ruin-tours-20131226,0,7297559.story#axzz2oZsdxD2g>that
he first started his tours in late 2011, ferrying around one or two
people at a time in his car. But the business has really taken off
recently, so much so that he is now driving around in a 12-seat van.
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And each visitor has to stay somewhere while in Detroit, so the city's
hotels and restaurants can thank them for adding to their coffers too.
The one catch is that the tours are not 100 per cent legal. Wriggling your
way inside one of the properties - or walking in through a conveniently
missing door or hole in the wall - is still considered trespassing by the
police.
Safety is also an issue, and people caught in the wrong place at the wrong
time can face fines up to £225. *Other adventure-seekers have been
assaulted, carjacked and mugged.*
But Welter said he provides an element of protection, in that he knows the
places not to go, and that police have told him that they don't mind him
going into certain buildings.
There are plenty to chose from. Authorities say 85 per cent of Detroit's
142.9 square miles has 'experienced population decline' in the past decade
last decade.
Plans to attract businesses to take over some of the buildings have ended
in failure. The future of the Central Depot station is still in doubt,
after plans to turn it into a casino ran out of steam. It has been empty
since 1988.
How terribly sad.
DCG
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