Raze 'em or save 'em? 10 notable buildings with 10 notable question marks

It'd be great to save every single building in Detroit, wouldn't it? That would be the ideal. But we all know that won't happen. We'll lose some of these beautiful structures, even if we fight for them (look at the Lafayette). So, the Freep's John Gallagher looks at ten notable buildings and asks what should we save?

Excerpt from the Detroit Free Press:

Detroit is dotted with distinguished but vacant architecture.

From empty schools to empty skyscrapers, these castoffs challenge our best efforts to remake the city.

Keep them or demolish them?

The case for historic preservation is written across Detroit in successful projects like the Westin Book Cadillac, the Doubletree Fort Shelby, the Whitney restaurant, districts like Corktown and Greektown and much more.

But no reasonable person would deny that many vacant structures lack any hope of renewal.

Like the Packard Plant, mostly vacant 50 years, they do little but remind us of Detroit's long slide into ruin.

So what to keep and what to let go? Today we look at 10 landmark structures, and apply criteria that we all should be able to live with.

Read the entire article and cast a vote on which of the ten should come down here.

Check out a spec list of the ten here.