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1. Various of crews demolishing a series of vacant row houses

Annotation: Detroit has razed more than 20,000 vacant and abandoned houses since 2014, when it exited the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Annotation: But the city's ongoing war against blight is far from won.

2. Various of a vacant business, including a fence held together by rusty chains

Annotation: Detroit still is home to scores of deteriorating apartment buildings, car washes and other large vacant eyesores.

Annotation: Including vestiges of its automotive past that are massive and expensive to demolish.

6. Various of the vacant school, including signs that warn against trespassing and suspicious activities

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Antoine Bryant, Detroit planning and development director:

"It's something that we have to deal with a lot with our industrial footprints. They take up a lot of land. But one of the things that the city is going to aggressively look is: How can we add to the city as opposed to just taking away?"

9. The rear of the vacant school

Annotation: Detroit and cities across the U.S. are looking to rid themselves of deserted monstrosities and open up the resulting spaces for redevelopment.

10. A sign indicates that people should stay away from the site of the old row houses

11. A worker unspools some caution tape

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Antoine Bryant, Detroit planning and development director:

"There's an opportunity for us to now refocus. We're still addressing that, still addressing the residential capacity that needs to be demolished, but now it gives us an ability to transfer and really address some of the largest eyesores that dot across this entire city."

13. Various of the vacant Packard plant

Annotation: Chief among them is the Packard plant.

14. STILL of the Packard plant

Annotation: The factory was built in the early 20th century and turned out high-end cars for the well-to-do into the 1950s.

15. STILL of New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia looking over a Packard Deluxe clipper model

16. Various of the Packard plant, including a stuffed bear hanging from a rope as well as a chair and hard hat

Annotation: It was considered one of the city's automotive jewels, but now is among the most notorious examples of "ruin porn" in the nation.

17. Business owner Crystal Glass looks at the Packard plant while speaking to a reporter

Annotation: Crystal Glass runs a social club in the shadows of the Packard.

Annotation: She wants it gone.

18. Various of both the exterior and interior of the Packard plant

19. SOUNDBITE (English) Crystal Glass, Detroit business owner:

Annotation: The old plant is among 100 large structures identified by the city to be torn down or renovated for future use.

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