Mayor Duggan has made demolition of blighted homes a top priority with 1,927 home demolitions up until September 10, 2014. Luckily for Duggan, he isn’t the only one with this goal. A number of private and federal interests also want to move forward with tearing down Detroit’s blight.
| Contractor | Number | Percent |
| Able | 102 | 5.30% |
| Adamo | 744 | 38.63% |
| Blue Star | 110 | 5.71% |
| DMC | 59 | 3.06% |
| Homrich | 690 | 35.83% |
| MCM | 221 | 11.47% |
The top two contractors tearing down Detroit’s blight are Adamo (38%), based in Detroit, and Homrich (35%), also contracted to shutoff residential water accounts. Both companies have been in the demolition business since 1964 and I can only wonder how many Detroit homes have met the business end of their machinery.
The BuildingDetroit.org site has the demolitions listed in PDF form and we took just a few hours to turn them into a usable dataset. Open data requires no more PDFs!
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