Today, Mayor Duggan joins members of the City of Detroit’s Construction and Demolition Department, Council President Mary Sheffield, and residents to celebrate the 8,000th residential demolition completed under Proposal N — fulfilling the voter-approved bond program’s original goal to remove blight and stabilize neighborhoods across Detroit.

The milestone demolition took place at on Lauder Street near Fenkell and Hubbell in District 1 to the cheers of neighbors and was completed by Adamo Group, a Detroit-based contractor and longtime partner in the City’s demolition program.

In 2014, Detroiters were faced with 45,000 vacant land bank homes that deteriorated the safety and quality of life in neighborhoods across the city. Because the $265 million in federal funds the City received for the first phase its demolition program could only be used in the most densely populated neighborhoods, a new funding source was needed for the demolition program to reach neighborhoods that were feeling left out of the city’s progress.

Learn more at https://detroitmi.gov/demolition