Architectural Collateral Damage

This is what the good people of Detroit . . . strike that . . . the remainder of the good people of Detroit . . . no, strike that too . . . some guys who owned property in what was left of Detroit did to the once-glorious Michigan Theater when the city it sat within no longer could muster the population and economic activity to fill the house.

The reason for the collapse, and the lessons that teaches, may be the key to understanding the city in the future.