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Trumbull Avenue is at left and West Willis Street is at bottom in this Google Earth image.
It's good to read about developers helping transform the city, but it's also refreshing to see this.
JC Reindl of the Detroit Free Press writes:
A self-described "anarchist housing collective" where members live a communal life sharing expenses as they occasionally host live music shows has successfully outbid a land developer trying to buy lots next door for new apartments.
The anarchist group, known as Trumbullplex, owns a pair of Victorian-era houses and a performance space at 4210 Trumbull in the Woodbridge neighborhood, next to the lots. For decades, the group has used one of the city-owned parcels as a gathering spot with greenery, fruit trees, a fire pit and parking for a painted blue school bus.
Many of the collective's 11 residents consider themselves anarchists because they don't believe in government and yearn for a stateless society. The group says it has tried for years to buy the lot, but the city said the land wasn't available.
The city chose the $10,000 bid by the group as opposed to the same bid by the developer, Alex Pereira., the paper says. Detroit decided to leave the land as is.
