Downtown

My sister and I were in Detroit the other day.  I went to school downtown.  I used to work downtown.  I used to hang out downtown [back when I was fun and did stuff and went out at 10pm instead of seeing 10pm and going, "GOD, I'm TIRED" and dozing on people's couches or in the booth at the restaurant or on the dance floor at the bar.  Ha! I don't actually sleep on the dance floor.  But that's only because I haven't been on a dance floor in about three years.  God. I'm sad.  Let's go dancing.]

Anyway, we were downtown and we talked about how different it used to be and how there are some parts, some pockets that are getting better.  But it's a patchwork, really.  One block will be nice, and then next will be full of burned out houses or just an empty field being reclaimed by nature.

Michigan Avenue runs out from Detroit. We took it back home, noticing the big empty field that was Tiger Stadium, the blown out hull that was the train station, but also the slow revitalizing of this area.

What a gorgeous building, right? This should be rehabbed.

Anyway, we were going down Michigan Avenue, remarking on the new faces of some of the buildings, the new businesses that were being built up.

And I noticed this newly built, really big building with pretty brick and arched entryways for parking and hay bales and pumpkins decorating for the fall.  I pointed it out to my sister, "Wow!  Look at that nice building.  Things are improving."

And my sister said, "That's a strip club."

Oh.

Still.  A really nicely built strip club.  And did I mention decorated for the fall?

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