Detroit mayor not close to demolition goal
Mayor Dave Bing fell well short of his ambitious goal of razing 3,000 vacant structures in 2010, tearing down 1,850.
Even so, Bing spokesman Dan Lijana said the city expects to reach the target of Bing’s federally funded $20 million demolition blitz — nicknamed “Bing 3000” — by March.
That’s one year after Bing made the promise in his State of the City speech and pledged to tear down 10,000 vacant homes by the end of his term in 2013.
“Mayor Bing’s commitment to take down 10,000 dangerous and vacant structures this term is iron-clad,” Lijana said in an e-mail. “Because this effort is more ambitious than any in the city’s history, it took time to develop the capacity and procedures to take down so many dangerous structures in such a short period of time.”
Of the 1,850 structures demolished last year, Wayne County tore down 460 houses.
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