GooBing Detroit

Mackay Street, Detroit.

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

Longwood Street, near John R and McNichols.

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

Luce Avenue and Sparling Street

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.

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

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.

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

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

Mackay Street.

Southwest Detroit, Springwells Village

Coplin Street, Detroit. 

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.