When my son was in town I asked him to drive me around so that I could take pictures. I was particularly interested in seeing where the new international bridge is going to be built. It was a very dark and gloomy day as you can see but it added to all the industry, blight and just plain sadness.
This ship, the Wilfred Sykes, was docked on the Rouge River and was being loaded (or unloaded). I saw on facebook that we just missed the mail boat delivering mail to the ship's crew. The JW Westcott carries mail to all the ships that come thru Detroit....zip code 48222
Zug Island
Vacant building may have been a bar/club
St. John Cantius
Built in 1927 and closed 2007.... there is a fence around the whole property and right in front of the church is a waste disposal plant. Really so sad to see but even more disturbing is that the church will probably be torn down when the bridge is built.
The area of Delray is mostly all industry now and the neighborhoods are a mere shadow of what they once were but some folks do not want to move. They were offered homes in a swap for swap owned by the Detroit Land Bank Authority. The homes are newly renovated. People that owned homes in the path of the bridge were bought out but people on the outskirts of the bridge had the option to swap homes.
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