The Observation Deck

It would be great, if before demolishing the Detroit Theather, whatevers worth saving could be salvaged and donated to "HABITAT FOR HUMANITY" Clevelands warehouse. Everything from seats, floors, lighting fixtures, bathroom fixtures, concession fixtures, anything usuable, any building materials, windows, doors, frames, memorabelia, whatever.

There are new homes for these items, let the residents have the oppertunity to own a peice of the Detroit Theather, everything is usefull, and could live a new life, don't destroy and toss these usefull items to the land fill. I would even volenteer to disasemble fixtures a day or two a week. I want to help save something worth while.

1. Habitate for Humanity can further promote it's cause, helping more families, by generating necessary funding for it's programs.

2. Residents can purchase these items and reuse them in their homes and businesses.

3. We can all save vintage historic building materials.

Remember what happened to most of our beautiful old schools, gone forever, trash... I would love to have an old class room door going into my garage from my mud room, how cool is that.

This suggestion sounds wonderful .. but that is a decision that Mr. Barr and/or McDonald's Corporation will have to make.

I am trying to recall what, if anything, on the inside of the building would be something H4H would want. The toilet fixtures, for example, are probably pretty old and are ones that use a lot of water. You would not want to reinstall these anywhere. Doors are an easy thing if they are nice.

This is private property, however. People can't just go in and pick clean the entire place. The new owners can also conceivably take anything worthwhile and sell it themselves if they would like.

And hopefully, the majority of the detrius will not go into a landfill. Most demolition projects these days can divert at least 40-70% of the waste from landfill without even trying. A lot of building materials are worth more money to divert than to pay for fees to landfill it. It's tougher with older buildings as they often have things like asbestos in materials to contend with. Steel studs and other metals are easy because they are worth something.