Nobody Saw This Coming on Detroit's Waterfront: Why Demolish Them?

See the real history of Detroit's riverfront before the parks — decades as an abandoned industrial shoreline of silos, rail yards, and warehouses. For decades, Detroit's eastern riverfront was written off — cement silos, rail yards, and blighted warehouses cutting the city off from its own river. This episode follows how the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy, founded in 2003, turned a forgotten industrial shoreline into miles of public parkland in barely a generation. Subscribe to Old Waterfront America for more true stories of the old docks, ports, and waterfronts that built the country before they became parks, condos, and tourist attractions.