To follow the Tiger Stadium debate (or the drawn-out fights over the old Madison-Lenox Hotel in 2005 and the vanished Hudson's store in the '90s), one might think that preservation is an ugly and divisive process that pits building huggers against cold-hearted developers and city officials.

In reality, preservation is bankable, realistic, widely accepted -- and key to the revival of Detroit.

Preservation of older buildings accounts for almost all of the revival in Detroit's Midtown and a good deal of the downtown revival.

The trend toward downtown loft living? That's almost entirely focused on renovating older office buildings for modern residential use.

- bill 7-31-2007 4:47 pm




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