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OLD Anonymous
old buildings. have you seen them?
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>> Anonymous
i suggest you take a look at the Michigan Central Station if you havent heard of it already (built in Detroit during the great automobile 'rush' to be later completely abandonned).
Here are some pics of it, jut found on some random blog (theres tons out there)
http://web.mac.com/lionelbonici/MySite/Photos_2008/Pages/Michigan_Central_Part1.html#1
>> Anonymous
>>130530
That's amazing, I can't believe such an incredibly building was abandoned like that.

Was it ever used at all?

I'm surprised whoever owns it doesn't use it for something.
>> Anonymous
it was used of course, look it up. Filled with levels and levels of office space, and absolutely huge central galleries for passengers. Detroit saw its population cut down by half during the great automobile depression, and tons of buildings like these were abandonned. People didnt even bother coming back for their stuff, they just left. Period. Theres many many car factories, administrative buidlings, etc that are now just abandonned and, saddly, have become dangerous hideouts for gangs and junkies, etc.
>> Anonymous
>>130535
Ah, I KNEW I recognised the building from your link.

It was that empty place at the end of Transformers.

I see that there are negotiations to renovate the place.

Wish there were interesting buildings like that around me, all I have is empty fields and cows.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
http://www.buffalocentralterminal.org/
Buffalo's Central Terminal's more impressive. The problem with amazing interesting buildings like this is that there's usually a reason they get abandoned (e.g., the collapse of the rail industry and general exodus from Buffalo pwn3d the Buffalo Central Terminal, and as mentioned the failure of the auto industry and similar population decrease killed the one in Michigan. So there aren't really enough people in either area to fill up a building like that anymore). Also, since they've lain fallow for so long, there's usually more repairs necessary to get it up to snuff than there is potential value in it anymore. A building that could potentially make millions if renovated isn't that attractive if repairing it and bringing it up to modern safety standards and whatnot would cost billions.

The thought process goes like so:
1. Fixing this building would cost more than tearing it down and rebuilding it from scratch.
2. If we're going to built it from scratch, might as well build it from scratch somewhere where we don't have to accept the cost of tearing it down first
3. Since we're building from scratch, it would actually make a lot more sense to just build a regular office building with cheap to build and cheap to maintain glass walls rather than a weird art-deco temple to 1920s engineering like this.

It's very sad, but c'est la vie.