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Uneven Terrain

Detroit Lives

The Motor City has been declared dead more times than Rasputin.

The Motor City has been declared dead more times than Rasputin. But over the last few years, while the news media (and Dutch tourists) were hemming and hawing over a few neglected streets that had started to look more like meadows, a bunch of creative badasses were quietly buying abandoned nine-story buildings, filling them with everyone they knew, and making Detroit actually pretty fucking incredible. Our old buddy Johnny Knoxville paid a visit to the D to explore for himself.