
“Motor City” continues to “shrink to survive.”
Detroit, Mich., which recently announced that it planned to demolish/bulldoze as many as 10,000 homes to ‘redensify’ hard-hit communities, took down the childhood home of one-time Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in about an hour, according to the Associated Press.
The 5,500 sq. ft. house — where Romney lived with his mother and father (a former Michigan governor) from 1947 to 1953 — was located in the “once prestigious Palmer Woods area.” However, the house had fallen way beyond disrepair in recent years and was declared a “nuisance” in 2009.
It’s expected that the land will soon be put up for sale in a neighborhood where the average home prices hover around $257,000, which is actually on the high side for a state that has been so adversely affected by the downturn in the national economy.
The old Romney home is among 3,000 structures that the city plans to pulverize this year. Three thousand more will be turned to rubble in 2011. When all the dust settles, Mayor Dave Bing plans to raze about 10,000 structures to “protect” the city’s tax base and and get it back on the road to prosperity sooner rather than later.
Mitt Romney, who was the governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007, currently resides in a $12 million beachfront home in La Jolla, California. He is currently preparing to make another run at the presidency in 2012 as a member of the Republican party.







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