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The city has aggressively taken on its blight problem.

The city has aggressively taken on its blight problem.

Detroit and other cities are looking to get rid of large eyesores to open up those spaces for redevelopment. For Detroit, that could mean rebuilding now mostly Black neighborhoods that thrived when factories were built decades ago and before the whites who worked in them moved away.

DETROIT -- One of the first things 84-year-old Mahalie Wilson sees when she steps out of her home on Detroits east side is the brick, steel and concrete skeleton of the long-vacant Packard plant that looms over the neighborhood.

Detroit has aggressively taken on its blight problem since emerging from the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history eight years ago.

DETROIT (AP) -- One of the first things 84-year-old Mahalie Wilson sees when she steps out of her home on Detroits east side is the brick, steel and concrete skeleton of the long-vacant Packard plant that looms over the neighborhood.

DETROIT (AP) — One of the first things 84-year-old Mahalie Wilson sees when she steps...

One of the first things 84-year-old Mahalie Wilson sees when she steps out of her home on Detroits east side is the brick, steel and concrete skeleton of the long-vacant Packard plant that looms over the neighborhood.

Mahalie Wilson lives in the shadow of Detroits massive and vacant former Packard auto plant and says she has learned to just “deal with” her foreboding brick neighbor

Detroit has aggressively taken on its blight problem since emerging from the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history eight years ago, and has razed more than 20,000 abandoned houses in that time.