Detoit in 10 years, plus map of Bing's 3,000 demos, from the Freep

For a while it has seemed that Detroit has lacked a vision and a plan. And without those two things, it'll be pretty hard to get from point A to point B. Well, all that just might be changing, maybe, hopefully. The Freep released a piece packed with maps and "plans," which just might tide us over while we're waiting for a real plan from City Hall.

Excerpt from the Detroit Free Press:

For all its troubles today, Detroit is also a place brimming with hope for tomorrow.

When you assemble all the proposals, plans and dreams that have been advanced in recent months, the city of 2020 looks dramatically different than it looks today: smaller, smarter, greener, more mobile, with more job opportunities -- and once again the pounding heart of a metropolitan region.

You see thousands of kids attending schools that work for them. You see people using light rail and boarding buses in a transit system that serves them. You see a gleaming, growing medical complex; banners being hoisted to the rafters of a new sports arena; and people tending little farms that nourish their neighborhoods in more ways than one. You see convention-goers strolling a crowded RiverWalk and bicyclists coasting the downhills of a new trail network.

Read the entire article here.

A big part of moving Detroit forward and out of the "ashes" as the motto says, is through demoing the thousands of derelict and abandoned structures. And that demoing has started with 3,000 vacant and dangerous buildings across Detroit.

Check out the demo map from the Freep here.