Thursday, January 17, 2013

Day 304/365 - Part 1






     Today was so action-packed and filled with photos that I had to separate it into two parts! The day started out normally enough; I went to my only scheduled assignment of the day bright and early this morning. There's a section of turn-of-the-century historic buildings in downtown Saginaw that are slated for demolition if the local developmental authorities receive a $4 million grant they've applied for. 

     I got to tour a few of the buildings today with two reporters. We were only actually able to go inside of two of them; the others had little to no structural integrity left so we could only look in from the windows outside. I love touring abandoned buildings. There's something so beautifully melancholy about them to me, especially when they're historical buildings. These were structures made with so much attention to intricate details, that even as they're rotting and becoming the definition of urban decay they're absolutely gorgeous. It really is a shame that they'll most likely have to come down, but it was nice to get one last look into them in the meantime. 

You can see a full gallery of photos taken in the closed off buildings on MLive here.

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