Lost Detroit by Dan Austin

Author:Dan Austin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2013-02-04T16:00:00+00:00

The lobby of the Metropolitan features a wood-beamed ceiling and brightly painted walls. The building has been closed since 1979.

The Metropolitan’s neo-Gothic crown is loaded with intricate terra-cotta details that make it one of the most beautiful in the city.

Larry Mongo, a Detroit entrepreneur, has had the development rights on the building since 1988. And while he admits that “I had no plans on hanging onto it this long, trust me,” he remains optimistic that the building still has a future. As for more than a decade of waiting, Mongo said it just seemed like “when one thing goes right, something else goes wrong,” and he compared some building owners in Detroit to “old gold miners who can’t give up on finding gold and just keep hanging on” to their properties hoping for things to turn around. But Mongo is a dedicated Detroiter and vowed that “I’d fight them tooth and nail” if the city ever tried to bring down the Metropolitan. The building will live again, he said. “It’s going to happen with me or without me.”

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