Top 10 Abandoned Places of Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is home to many famous abandoned buildings, from schools and automotive factories to a theater and naval armory, that reflect its rise and decline. With a population that peaked at 1.8 million in the 1950s before plunging to 600,000 today, largely due to the loss of automotive jobs, Detroit has numerous empty structures being gradually reclaimed by nature.
Here's a peak at some of my favorite that remain in no particular order.
1 Packard Plant
2 Lee Plaza Hotel
3 Detroit Naval Armory
4 Cooley High School
5 Wayne County Courthouse
6 St. Paul of the Cross
7 Fisher Body Plant 21
8 National Theatre
9 Jackson Middle School
#10 St. Stanislaus
#abandoned #abandonedplaces #detroit
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[@clarkss12]

Best video on the internet, by far!!!!!!!!!!! Depressing to lose all of that awesome architecture, to never be replicated.

[@too2great8]

The architecture and craftsmanship of these buildings is so remarkable to me. It woukd be a travesty to tear down any of these buildings and not repurpose them.

[@lizzyschmidt8429]

At once tragic and fascinating. You did such a wonderful job filming. 👏 👏

[@titusrider7948]

Very nice drone footage 👍

[@adventureswithcarl123]

Cool ...I have actually explored abandoned spots in Detroit awhile back! coming back later this year to do some more vlogs!

[@artofexp]

You should!

[@akshatmisra767]

hey, so me and my buddy are planning an exploration in Detroit. Are there any places you've gone that you would recommend? Is there anything we should be on the lookout for?

[@nicholegurganus74]

From experience of exploreing theses places hands down best and still one of my crazy experiences would be at the lee plaza

[@artofexp]

It’s being renovated now.

[@ChuySaysSalud]

At the rate we are going, you will be making more films like this, well done.

[@jerrydemain2346]

very cool thanks!

[@artofexp]

Glad you liked it!

[@lizzyschmidt8429]

Thanks!

[@JamesHorn-i4b]

The cars and trucks that come out of that factory that's when cars and trucks was cars and trucks

[@feedsyoutube]

Belle Izle zoo was a awesome place to explore, idk if it’s explorable anymore

[@daveboggs3866]

Crazy!

[@adrianmolm715]

I want to buy all of these!

[@artofexp]

Packard Plant was purchased by Detroit and being demolished now. Fisher Body is currently being developed into commercial and residential space. The Lee Plaza Hotel received State funds for renovation and also recently started work. Detroit had been stepping up its game in restoring these gems for better use.

[@baileyneedham169]

Wanye county building isn’t abandoned it’s a just vacant

[@especialista_hseq]

por que están en abandono, hay subasta por ellos, ¿? pasa algo en Detroit ¿?

[@kimberlycotton]

I grew up in that area

[@JamesHorn-i4b]

Like a rock Chevrolet

[@davids9520]

.The Packard plant isn't abandoned any more. Cooley High School. I graduated from the high school. Fisher Body is also being demolished and rehabbed, like the Packard plant. Demolishing churches is not a good way to be on the good side of God.

[@michaelwhite2823]

When rioting makes everyone leave. Almost everyone.

[@artofexp]

There's some great videos on KZbin of Detroit during the race riots. It's amazing to see how all these empty blocks were filled with businesses and homes at one point.

[@JamesHorn-i4b]

This old houses

[@user-yt-13245]

in an abandoned simCity, every shape of robots or humanoids live in and maintain in good condition their house, keep up and running their traditions and accept visitors. The state of a city is monitored by a central Authority.🤔

[@JamesHorn-i4b]

I know a hick town that has Three court house's

[@ericolson9573]

*Promo SM*

[@jackjames3190]

In uk we have the British national trust - you should get your equivalent - the American national trust would save what’s left and save you lot spending all your hard earned dollars looking at ours 😂 Have a look at the British national trust in wiki ti see how it works and set up your own because everytime I come online I feel physically sick when I see some of the beautiful architecture america is STILL destroying - I jay don’t understand it . The answer is the national trust (!) do it 😂😂😂 Also - if you want to prevent your neighbourhoods from dying out again you need a GREEN BELT - wiki British reasons for the green belt to learn about that What I find astonishing about this and many videos like it, is how no one in America - not one in the town planning departments or city chambers or zoning law offices etc - not one person has noticed that this kind of urban decline seems to be unique to america and is seen nowhere else but there. I’m not talking about a nice area going rough after a riot - we have those in British cities but they’re still over populated and chockablock full of people and buildings. In Britain we have had more industrial decline than america has had so far - the decline of industry and the atomisation of what remained has seen whole towns lose their soul provider of jobs over night - such as the old welsh mining towns where the coal pit was the main job provider - even in wales we don’t have any towns that look like this - some had new tech industries move in - others never recovered - they got poor but they’re stoill there - you just wouldn’t see the amount of abandonment or empty lots that you see in this clip. I think many Americans just assume that britain is such a small country and so we don’t get these kind of wastelands because our population density is so much higher - but that’s actually NOT the reason why. For example - in 2024 London has a population almost identical to New York’s - 8 million - yet the landmass it covers is nearly twice the size - from space London is physically twice as stretched out as New York - surprisingly Londons expanse has more in common with Los Angeles than it’s sister city of New York. So in this instance Londoners are in a rare example of living in twice as much land space city limits as their American cousins - when usually it’s the opposite. The reason you just don’t see and will not see urban decline and abandonment in Britain that resembles the vast empty street after street of abandonment that are typical of Detroit, east Saint Louis, Philadelphia and so on it because of the green belt laws that were introduced after the fir at world war. When America had a terrible depression in the 1930s the British economy recovered quite quickly and strongly after the shock of 1929 and that’s mainly because of a huge housing boom that was a direct response to the homes for heros pledge after the horrors of the First World War. Social change and improvement meant that Cramped tenements of poverty were no longer acceptable and a new code of what was acceptable for human habitation came into laws - hygiene, toilets, more space and outside areas for gardening were now considered to be available for all the classes not just the rich. Whole swaths of countryside around the main British cities were turned from farmland to ever ending urban sprawl and because a lot of the land around our cities are areas of outstanding natural beauty people from all classes of society were concerned about its destruction. And the governments response is why you won’t ever see empty neighbourhoods like this in Britain. The green belt London's Green Belt prevents any further urban sprawl, the perimeters of the city are set and cannot be developed further . This driving the reuse and intensification of previously developed land and brown field sites. Old neglected previously industrial wastelands. So whilst many people in the USA simply moved to new suburbes in the outskirts of a city after the roits of the 59s and 60s the British could only move to a different part of the city if they no longer liked where they were. After the Brixton Riots of the 1979s and early 80s there was a population de line and many store closed but they were minimal by comparison and so those areas recovered eventually because they couldn’t just build bigger better somewhere else - you had ti improve what was there already. What’s realIy sad about this video is all the beautiful Victorian architecture that’s being lost - it reminds me of Victorian splendour of Saint Louis and Detroit that’s been lost - the suburbs nearest the centre of any American city are the oldest pets of the city and so when these places declined so fast because everyone was moving to the bright new suburbs those city blocks of stunning homes were lost - wee houses at DONT build like that any more and it saddens me more because London is presently full of Americans paying a lot of money to come and visits and walk around neighbourhoods of beautiful Victorian lined streets - when you had streets almost identical to ours and they weee abandoned and demolished because it was to easy to just move to a brand new building somewhere else. Now that the post war novelty of new build has worn off and we realise we could just renovate the beautiful old Victorian neighbourhoods and homes - so many have already been lost for ever. That’s also why you have so many dead malls They have been affected by internet shopping - but more than that - at the moment - MOST dead and abandoned malls that I’m aware of in the United States only became struggling and then dead after another brand new mall opened just down the road that’s bigger cooler newer. It’s irresponsible town planning and a waste of money to the cities to allow that in the long run.

[@JamesHorn-i4b]

Now what dodge money family of Doug lumps of coal

[@psychiatry-is-eugenics]

deeseggregayshun lawsuits destroyed this country

[@mikeslaton6498]

This is dumb outdated video only to pick at negative.

[@artofexp]

It’s a video of Detroit’s history. Nothing negative about it. I love Detroit ❤️. I film abandoned historical and cultural buildings and locales.