Ice House Detroit.

[Autumn]

November 13, 2009


Plans for Detroit home in ice move ahead


ASSOCIATED PRESS

A project to encase one of Detroit’s thousands of abandoned homes in ice this winter to draw attention to foreclosures that have battered the region is moving forward and expanding.

Photographer Gregory Holm said this week that the state’s land bank agreed to donate a home on the city’s east side for the Ice House Detroit project.

The scope of the project by Holm and freelance architect Matthew Radune is growing. They plan to use some money they’ve raised to help a Detroit family get a home by paying back taxes on a foreclosure.

Holm also said early-release prisoners will help take apart and recycle materials from the frozen home.

The Detroit area’s foreclosure rate is among the nation’s highest.

My precious city - the city that my ancestors helped build, abandoning after the 1967 riots, the city in which my Dad retired from GM, the city in which D2 has worked for over 10 years at a local dealership, facing foreclosure and ever concerned for his job stability.... if support of the auto industry (the fabric of America's economy) means nothing to you, consider the thousands in our area who have been laid off and displaced due to plant closures and layoffs.

Read more on this project @ Ice House Detroit , and see photos of the literal impending ruin of my beloved Motor City.

P.S. I will definitely, definitely be updating this thread with photos of the Ice House and other pertinent structures.