The Rise, Fall & Rebirth of Detroit | Abandoned (Full Episode)

after Decades of rising debt dwindling population and increased racial tensions the birthplace of Motown and the American Auto industry is mounting a comeback 19 billion dollars in debt unemployment rate of about 14 percent about a third of the population has moved out over the last several decades it's great to see these stories about Detroit making you come back and if you spend any time their people are so invested in making it happen you have some gentrifying going on you have people who have been in the community for years they're being pushed out the new Detroit is only the new Detroit because the old Detroit was the foundation downtown is happening so is Midtown and you literally can't even find a place or an apartment here we want to live here and we everybody is everybody's struggling here been here all my life I've seen the good and I'm seeing the bad now hopefully I'll see the good again thank you Dan for what you betrayed be saved of all the city Detroit doesn't need to be saved Detroit is flourishing [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] you are about to witness the very exciting story of a city and its people it will be an adventure that will open new sights in familiar surroundings it is a story of a city seeking New Horizons and a Resolute contest with great challenges that city is Detroit yes Detroit is enjoying its finest hour there is a Renaissance a rebirth in the city there's a newness in Detroit whenever you hear about Detroit you hear about two extremes you hear that an abandoned city and it's an up-and-coming City which are both true in some regard but it seems like uh like an oversimplified version of what's really happening here I think there's a lot of gray area in the middle and I want to explore that I want to know what everyday detroiters think about what's going on in their city and what their city is to them my first stop is a place where many of those everyday detroiters used to work the Packard Auto Plant [Laughter] getting a good dose of post-apocalyptic lifestyle right now walking through what is now the world's largest abandoned Factory I felt like I was in a bombed out forgotten City and the Packard plant really was its own City this massive three and a half million square foot complex once employed 36 000 people when the factory opened in 1903 workers flocked here from all over the country for their shot at the American dream hundreds of thousands of cars were assembled here before the plant closed in 1958 what remains today is just a ghost of that great City within a city [Music] so this hallway was the production line where they would build the cars they would start on that end and put all the parts on the cars until it got to that end and then would be a finished product I'm going to say that this hallway is like three blocks long [Music] all I had to do was take a left turn and stand in this light and then boom epic ruin porn it's way easier to point a camera at something and say this is a problem than it is to actually fix it I think there's a lot of people pointing at things and saying that's a problem and not a lot of people trying to fix them I think this place in particular has a very large wow factor so you get a lot of people coming here and photographing it and saying this is Detroit I feel a little nervous that we're adding to the ruin porn pile I'm gonna try not to I don't want to just show a one-dimensional story about Detroit it's really easy for us to come here and just fly our drone through this place and say we got a story but you gotta think that when you come to these places that people actually live there they grew up there they're going to raise families there and you can't just go there and look at their pile of garbage and say that's how they are this place is so Infamous that hundreds of people come here every day to shoot photos and to tour through the place which eventually became a security problem because people are getting robbed for their cameras now there's 24 7 security like we even have a security guard watching our cars today majority of the people that come through here is mostly people that stay outside of Detroit okay more Suburban people you know very small number of locals it's a destination it's almost like this is Detroit's version of the Coliseum yeah it's it's quite a spectacle what's this neighborhood like now deserted a lot of vacant and abandoned houses I grew up in this neighborhood so I seen the good and the bad right Detroit is on a climb you know trying to climb I believe so I believe Detroit is on a climb now majority of this city is Karen you know I care and they don't report that a lot about people caring about the city all they hear about is the negativity right of the city so Rob's right it's easy to focus on negativity and point fingers when someone or somewhere is on the way down but the Packard plant may be on its way back up in 2014 a developer bought it for 405 thousand dollars with the intent of converting it to a mix of housing retail and public space if all goes according to plan this great structure will live again it's a growing Trend in this city abandoned property in vacant land being cleaned up and repurposed [Music] we were just driving down the street and we saw this cleanup operation going on we figured we'd pull over and see what's happening this is a cleanup operation with recovery Park farms and the idea is to be able to like take advantage over all the vacant Lots in Detroit and be able to start growing on those vacant lots and servicing the product right here at this historical Market Shane Ferry market that's amazing yeah yeah I heard one of two stories with Detroit I either hear it's an abandoned lost city or it's an up-and-coming City it's true that's true both both are true yeah and I think this is one of the innovative ways that Detroit is quote unquote coming back Brent told me that after the local Chrysler plant was shut down and relocated this once vibrant neighborhood went downhill fast Just Like Flint Michigan just like Gary Indiana and other cities that have large populations of people of color and poor whites working that plant left okay and this is the aftermath of the plants leaving you also had people making money off of burning down houses for house insurance oh really yeah and people you know were paying guys you know burned down to birds to burn down properties if you're somebody that you know has been denied job offers and somebody tells you hey throw this Molotov cocktail on this house I'll throw you 500 like hey that's that's business yeah I think Detroit is a city that's got spirit and it's got heart and it's got like the resilience to be a city again if people are willing to want to communicate learn about the history of Detroit learn about how segregation has kind of like destroyed the city in the past right people talk about what happened in like the 80s and the 90s but like literally in the last five ten years some of these houses were burned down yeah and so yeah Bossier City groundskool recovery Park we want to provide jobs for returning citizens for community members in the neighborhood to where you know you're really like balancing the city again well I think you're doing great work thank you man really appreciate it thank you yeah it was great to talk with Brent he seems like he's doing a lot for the community they're cleaning up this lot and eventually it's going to be an urban farm and then all the fruit and vegetables is going to be sold across the street in this Old Market and right now we're currently in a food desert so that means there's nowhere to get fresh food around here people buy their groceries at a corner store so it's something the community really needs [Music] thank you Detroit it's become known as the poster child of Abandonment in the United States but an effort to change that label is underway thanks to local companies like Detroit dirt passion Murray started the company five years ago with the mission to rebuild a Greener City from the ground up one compost pile at a time so the Detroit Zoo they come in and they bring about 20 yards Zoo manure Zoo manure the Rhinos the giraffes the good stuff this is giraffe this is trash it yeah thank God for the zoo because they got the good it's beautiful can I eat it go ahead that's food recovery I'll recover some celery and that's why we need to be recovering food you all are crazy for throwing this away passion has transformed this vacant plot of land into a place where recovered food waste and Rhino turns combine to produce fertile soil for Detroit's Urban Farms so what would you say your your goal is with this project my goal I've actually actually reached my goal which was to get the city to pay attention to the progress so now the city can look at this as a scalable model this can be replicated anywhere in the country it's a movement that will turn into our culture so if I can get people in New York and Miami and DC and L.A all joining together to push you know the purpose of this and our whole country is going to start doing it compost or die I'm supposed to die passion asked me to help her take some of that good Detroit dirt to one of the urban Farms she supplies he's going to be my new partner now since she started Trucking compost around town passion has seen a lot of changes in the Detroit landscape it's interesting how the city has evolved over the last like five years because BC cranes in the air now and yeah so the revitalization of the city is definitely real and true and I'm excited because I've just kind of watched it evolve over a 10-year time frame so are there a lot of urban farms in Detroit oh God yeah like tons yeah yeah I'd say about five years ago really a lot of them popped up and Farms like Oakland Avenue rely on passion to deliver the best smelling in town [Music] [Laughter] mustard greens turnips collards it's looking good in this community people were buying food at the gas station the liquor store you know those yeah you know the scripts the food desert yeah and so we wanted to encourage folks come on in and feed your family you make a healthier Community right yeah what do you think the future of this neighborhood is going to be well it's already happening what we are afraid of is gentrification okay you see things posted on Facebook like Why Pay fifteen hundred dollars in Ann Arbor when you can pay 900 in the North End well people in the North End who live here 900 that's a lot of money yeah rent yeah that's that's a problem yeah it's a big problem for the city across the board gentrification yeah we have two Detroits okay we have the Downtown Detroit and then you have the real Detroit and that's the neighborhood when I go downtown I don't even know it you know it's like where are the black folks at you know and then um I mean seriously no she found I've lived down there for over 10 years yeah and that's a big change it is a drastic it's my first time it is a drastic change but in the neighborhood it's completely different in terms of the revitalization we're like okay when they gonna come and uh fix these potholes when they're gonna come and give us some decent sidewalks put some lights in the street and put some lights nationally the focus is on downtown and Midtown in Corktown but to her point the neighborhoods that anchor all these places it needs to spread out through all those neighborhoods to push people out who have lived their whole lives here who have had businesses here the ones who did stay it's not fair no it's not fair at all and some of the people who destroyed it they want to come in and tell people how to fix it right in one way these newcomers try to quote unquote fix these neighborhoods is by attempting to rename them I met up with cornetta Lane who fought back against gentrification and stood up for her community my neighborhood core city was in danger of being rebranded as West Corktown if you put Corktown in the name of a neighborhood it is perceived to be safe trendy um and up and coming I was like scrolling through my Facebook news feed yeah and I come across an article that reads West Corktown creating Detroit's newest neighborhood they developed a logo and then a website and then a Facebook page of 1200 likes wow and then t-shirts so they were they were branding so they were branding core city is something that it wasn't correct yeah correct the the type of folks that has come out of have come out of core City uh you know you got Rosa Parks yourself all right uh you got Stevie Wonder those are some really heavy hits yeah Heavy Hitters right so I just I I really did I think the people of course it is what makes core City cornetta put a stop to the rebranding for now and in an effort to further knit her community together she started a neighborhood Bike Tour called core City Stories was core City always a struggling area it had its like glorious days and also was dark days okay and then I feel right now we're on a rebound people who live in this area first of all they're resilient um and second of all they are committed to to seeing um you know better days in core City it's of my opinion that the people in Detroit don't want Detroit to look like that of course of course and it's not that their fault yeah and it takes more than just the people that live in the neighborhood to do it you know it's like you need bigger resources to knock that place down you need Machinery yeah for sure we're in North Corktown right now and cornetta wants to introduce me to Mr King The Unofficial mayor of North Corktown I heard you're the unofficial mayor of this area yeah I I believe I am though because like I said I helped all the the neighbors out you know the seniors the ones they cannot afford they snow I I do they snow right I feel good about that my mother taught me you come in this world nothing you lead as well it's nothing but only a kind word to be said now this is what we be doing we pass out produce got my bell peppers got fresh eggs other little would not potatoes and we service the community and anyone we can this used to be the most beautiful neighborhood the Rogers houses kids playing running up and down the street playing hide and go seek got guys standing on the corner and we used to call that crooning standing on the corner singing Temptations and and all that you know but all that is gone now so you know we trying to bring it back have you heard that uh some people wanted to change the name of the area here yeah I heard that I heard it from a few of the residence this is history so that's why they should leave it you know we don't change the name when you change the name what name do you want it to be right that's another form of control so let it go yeah let's live well we appreciate you taking the time hey thank you and I appreciate y'all appreciating me thank you if Detroit had a zodiac sign what would it be oh that's so good it would probably be a Capricorn because Capricorns work hard okay and Detroit we're working hard to be the best city that we can if you are working harder for their city than cornetta she doesn't just live in this neighborhood she lives for it and in a rapidly evolving landscape like Detroit if you don't stand up for your neighborhood you could lose it we're back home yay what do you think when you hear people say that uh you know Detroit's sort of a blank slate and they can come here and do whatever they want fortunately um bulls that are outside of Detroit they hear news from people who just moved to Detroit saying oh like you can do anything you want like a land of opportunity um and while there are tons of opportunities to take advantage of here Detroit is not a blank slate Detroit rather is a canvas that is missing pieces to it and if you could find yourself in Detroit you know painting along those edges and and kind of like being a piece of the puzzle and not trying to like create a whole new puzzle um you know that's that's the type of residence that Detroit needs you guys ready while many see Detroit's crumbling buildings as eyesores there are those who recognize them as creative opportunities this is creepy yeah look out for holes in the ground there's a lot of them I'm here with my friend Justin who's a local Detroit skater and uh what he does is he goes into some of these buildings and builds some skate spots in them sometimes yeah yeah [Music] when did you first come in here uh first time I came in here I was about six years ago it's changed a lot since that time these buildings are constantly changing evolving from just being exposed to the weather especially Scrappers you can see that the roof here like the ceiling is fire damaged and uh yes there's been a lot of fires and just things that are torn down you made this more skatable or yeah actually we ended up pouring over 2 000 pounds of cement on this I had to get new shocks on my car after doing this project because all the cement that I haul in my car to bring it here it's a pretty time consuming and like back-breaking process and it's still such a hard thing to escape but it's skatable now and it's cool it's a if you're able to do something on it it's it's pretty sweet foreign [Music] [Music] all right watch your head we're up on the roof walking around on a very weak wooden floor and uh looks like there's another skate spot up here it's looking pretty weathered I don't know if it survived the winter foreign we've probably done where I can build stuff in about 10 different buildings around the city and I feel like we're able to like you know do a little creative reuse like it's these forgotten things that no one cares about and now we're making something useful out of them kind of bringing them back to life in a way you just have a lot of freedom to do what you like and that's a big part of skateboarding is creativity and just imagining what if what can you do here what's possible and if you're willing to put in the time and the effort and the work which is a lot of times just super dirty and Grilling like you can make it happen it's really just up to you these buildings give a lot of possibility that might not be a possibility outside in the streets where things we build will get demolished pretty fast here they have some kind of lifespan but it's a you know that lifespan is always unknown it's really up to the elements up to The Scrappers and the others that wander the building how long our stuff lasts [Music] cool that hard work is still being done in this building years after it was closed and in their own small way Justin and his friends are contributing to Detroit's revitalization over in Midtown they wanted to show me another DIY Park they helped build at an abandoned Rec Center welcome to the wake [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] up all right look out [Music] so how long has this been going on for about a year and a half now okay since we uh took over that's how the city's coming back right now is you know the youth and the people that care stepping up and saying you know yo I'm taking you know I'm taking this and people are finding Avenues to do it they're finding funding to do it there's a lot of people that you know want to help the city grow and you know they're finding the right Avenues to do that it's like here for the take you know right the city is like reshaping itself in a place that's so rapidly changing Lofts and condos are popping up all over Midtown and the city is currently seeking developers to turn the wig into a massive residential project this would come as a huge loss for locals like Wesley Smith I used to live like right there on the street years ago high performance of the Year Heroes just wasn't like drug dealers like you know football players and stuff this is like the only Freedom that we have here you know there's nothing else this is the only Freedom that we have it's like a drug you know what I'm saying it's like you you never want to stop you know you never want to stop I gotta notice like I I never I can't go along without skating that's just like pretty much saved my life living in a city like they don't have anything for us here you know they usually take away stuff before they get more stuff the real Detroit is this you know I'm saying this is really trade they want us to say we're scary they want us to say that you know we're juvenile or something like that they want to say that but I'm not gonna say that I'm gonna say what's really going on we're struggling everybody is everybody's struggling here that whole advertisement in New York go to Detroit go to Detroit all right cool you can come Detroit it's no problem but don't ignore the people that was here [Music] [Music] Detroit gets worldwide press for its struggle with abandonment but it also has a reputation for crime and violence and these two issues are unmistakably linked without a strong working population the tax base erodes which leaves huge funding gaps for City Services like policing and increasingly these gaps are being filled by private security firms this is the Detroit threat Management Center home of the Vipers I'm here to meet their founder Commander Dale Brown so we're gonna get a tour of the yeah come on in this is the threat Management Center Tactical Training Center [Music] all we do here is teach people how to overcome fear therefore they're able to manage threats properly to get rid of the fear we have to you know train you to overcome that just that natural feeling of fear and get used to uh responding and functioning under fear-based conditions right this is what we call Quad bags boxers they box one person yeah uh and in real life unfortunately especially here in America people like to fight four on one or more on one okay and in order for you to prepare for that we have What's called the quad bags they're connected here at the top okay so when you hit one the other one's coming from the rear so you're learning how to pay attention in all directions defend yourself you think I can do it you can do it you can just start off just pushing them off you just push them off get away push remember they're coming yep you'll get an 80 pound reminder you got to remember that keep looking that's right technique is um well it's better than uh just standing there getting hit yeah it's right above that throw the elbows yeah there you go look all right I feel like I'm not ready I think I just got beaten I believe so do not do not attack or defend against these bags simply run okay yeah can you tell me a bit about yourself and why you started this organization I was teaching self-defense here in Detroit I heard a story of a woman being chased off a bridge in front of her daughter right in broad daylight in front of a crowd of people and I thought if I had a student there if one person I I had trained had been there they could stop this that mother from being chased off that bridge and dying in front of her daughter I was a airborne paratrooper when I got the military I've been studying martial arts my whole life I was training Firearms since age six so for me Firearms martial arts the military I was a private investigator when I got out of the military so I had a chance to understand law so I created an entire school around understanding how to deter detect and defend yourself your family your community from violent criminals right by Understanding Psychology law and skill in order to escape control and immobilize threat yes and we emphasize non-violence is is a key because when you have violence and you use violence to solve violence you're actually amplifying more violence right the commander has set up a tactical training program open to all comers like a Detroit Robin Hood he uses the profit they generate from patrolling wealthy neighborhoods to give free classes to low-income locals I decided it was time I learned some Basics what is your your title I am Lieutenant Commander Morella machinovich-brown my code name is 111 mantis and I am the Commander's wife and second in charge okay yeah what does vipers mean uh violence intervention protective emergency response system okay and then we have volunteers investigators protectors educated Rescuers and Searchers so that's two meetings yeah yeah you guys have code names yes so for example you see police officers they have a nameplate that says Jace kamansky okay okay we don't have that right for protection we deal with a lot of violent criminals and a lot of not mentally stable individuals so we don't want them knowing our family name so we have code names my code name is 111 mantis um it corresponds with there was 110 people prior me that successfully passed their testing requirements to earn their code name military has alpha bravo charlie you know we have different ones we have alpha bravo Cobra mantis Delta Jaguar razor yeah razor let's see I'd be Razer you'd be a Razer one one you'd be a one one six Razer 116. Razer 116. pretty cool officially yeah it is kind of cool to call yourself Razer 116. once I acquired my official code name I was ready to learn how to properly defend myself so when we do the control graph we would go here yeah and then hold them right down here until the police officers come to get them yeah I'm not going anywhere yeah and there's different techniques so side headlock I give you a side headlock like that yep so basically what we do is we grab our air and come here you take your hand and generally you're gonna hook into the eye yeah you're gonna peel back this way yeah I mean you can let go or you want me to poke your eye um and then this is what you do we do the head inversion and we just hold here and if they get out of control we squeeze or lift up tapping yep you're going towards him yeah I have several different ways to get that to go that way Temple spin is one then you also have the nose oh those suck um you have this yeah um you have this and then obviously you have when you grab here yeah the nose ones suck Yep they're really aggravated you just basically want to hit right here yeah yeah that hurts yeah and it's easy it's like 90 year old woman can do this and it doesn't require strength [Music] Commander Dale Brown and the Vipers don't just keep the streets of Detroit safe they also Patrol the waterways [Music] the commander wanted to take me out on a boat show me why you know why I wonder what the boat looks like I wonder if it's Miami vice'd out or RoboCop boat all right whoa yeah the boat is just like the cars so cool [Music] can you tell me about your boat yes our boat is a tactical vessel designed for training we usually train our staff we also use it to rescue people if they need help out on the water we're growing the boat so this time next year we still have a bigger one oh yeah yep our objective is to double the size of the boat and it'll be Chrome instead of flat black really I think Terminator yeah we're reversing everything so our building's going to be Chrome really our vehicles are going to be Chrome you're rebranding yeah we're rebranding yeah just inverting yeah I noticed your whole Fleet is very uniform and well branded thank you that's a conscious decision yes everything the buildings the vehicles uh the aircraft that are coming all black and chrome what kind of aircraft uh we're gonna get helicopters really yes Chrome it's like the coolest security company ever well it's not that's the thing to make sure we separate all blacked out vehicles have been seen by both Smugglers as well as all the bad guys in all the movies yeah and all the stealth aircraft in real life yeah so we're gonna switch that out with something that's never been seen uh which is all Chrome Vehicles makes sense and therefore we'll have uh brand recognition worldwide for sure the commander has worldwide aspirations for his brand but Detroit hasn't always been so supportive of African-American business owners in your opinion what's the real Detroit the real Detroit is a story of racism and apartheidism that was been hidden from society outside Detroit the native detroiters know about it eight mile once uh was not just a movie but it was actually a wall that kept the African-Americans out oh really uh the physical wall then when African-Americans fought their way into living here in Detroit they had to live in a place called black bottom which is uh the middle of Detroit they were not allowed out basically Detroit Was A Sundown town and then when African-Americans were able to buy the land the next thing that happened was the big businesses pulled out and that's how our suburbs were created here in Detroit exactly whites decided to move out of Detroit so European Americans took their business with them and refused to do any type of business with African-Americans and so that's the story that they don't want to say in the media they want to say that it's about uh you know somehow business changed or the economy changed the business is here these car companies are thriving so how could Detroit not be thriving right and that's because they opened up car companies in areas where African-Americans couldn't work 20 000 European American men walked off the line when they found out the first African-American was hired to work on the line their official statement was they would rather lose to Germany than to work next to [Music] so when we understand that's the history that 20 000 men would rather lose to Germany to Hitler than to work next to another American Christian then we understand those same men are still here their family members are still here they're still a uh part of the power structure and they're making decisions for African-Americans every day and this is the story of Detroit that no one wants to tell so that's part of our structure it's not a part of just an opinion it's a lot of times even in foreign countries America will try to say well you know race is there but that's just you know it's just certain people it's not it's a system it's governance governance like an apartheid system that was unofficial even though it was official [Music] thank you this entire neighborhood is burned down foreign you could live in a nice house that's in a decent neighborhood I guess but it would still be surrounded by burned down houses and dilapidated buildings the people that live here it's not their fault that this happened to the city they had nothing to do with it it had to do with industry leaving [Music] and I'm pretty sure that the people that live here did not want that to happen I think the original model T Factory is just right here Henry Ford's first production line I'm going to read this sign here at his Highland Park plant Henry Ford in 1913 began the mass production of automobiles on a moving assembly line mass production soon moved from here to All Phases of American industry and set the pattern of abundance for 20th century living so this is the reason why everybody has too much stuff [Music] this building is possibly where the American dream was birthed and some might say that Detroit is where the American dream died but I don't think it's that simple I think that chapter of the American dream has moved on and Detroit actually might be the beginning of it again because it's come full circle it was this giant thriving City and then it died and now it's on the comeback it seems like that first part of the American dream was about yourself you know what I mean like your American Dream but it seems like now the the new way to go is for people to come together and it's like our American Dream for us I think I see that happening here in Detroit people getting together and saying let's make this neighborhood better and I think it's a good sign that you know Detroit's coming back because that means everyone else could come back I've seen a lot of depressing things doing this show and uh honestly whenever I leave a place I leave feeling good because there's so many amazing people doing really cool stuff in you know like really hard conditions it definitely shows the resilience of people and if people want change to happen they can make it happen I mean it's happening here cue the song [Music] it might have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline but on the child without a highway filling up with gasoline Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying over the luxurious disappointment so he walks over and he's trying to sympathize with her but he thinks that he should Warner that the third world is just around the corner mixing popping politics he asks me what the use is I offer him embarrassment for my usual excuses while looking down the corridor out to where the van is waiting I'm looking for the quietly forward foreign [Music] forward [Music] and you've got a blacklist put somebody on white down rock and roll from top of the boxes there's no one out there subscribe [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] my 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Length: 43min 55sec (2635 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 04 2023

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“ew it’s vice “

come the fuck on, this isn’t news, this is a travel show hosted by a super cool pro skateboarder. it’s a few years old but every episode of this show, “Abandoned”, is awesome and a good reflection on how fucked up america is.

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This is old as fuck. And Vice is trash.

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I can't wait till Duggan finishes demolishing these buildings so we can stop with the garbage ruin porn.

Edit: A lot of that footage is from years ago. Orleans landing isn't finished, MCS still pre Ford, which means a lot of those abandoned houses are also probably from years ago. This video seems like it belongs in 2015.