‘There’s nothing left.' After decades of decline, Highland Park fights for a future

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To tell the story of Highland Park is to tell a tale of two cities. There is the Highland Park that gave birth to the assembly line and forged the middle class, with schools and hospitals and homes that were the envy of the world.
And there's the Highland Park we know today: its factories empty and schools long- shuttered. Prosperity exists only as a memory.
“I remember Highland Park, what it was,” said longtime resident Eban Morales. “They had something to be proud of once. But not anymore.”
During the automotive boom time of the 1930s, more than 50,000 people lived in Highland Park. Today, fewer than 9,000 residents remain.
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@jerryjerry5469 Жыл бұрын

The white people left

@bejakabyle Жыл бұрын

God bless a white people ! They’re the best in management.

@ClaudiaMitchell-jn7fw 7 ай бұрын

I was born at Highland Park hospital in 1953. What has happened to my birthplace is heartbreaking. 🍃🌺🍃

@DetroitNinja Жыл бұрын

Such a dangerous area now. Lots of old beautiful buildings on Woodward Ave.

@reneetuer3525 Жыл бұрын

So incredibly sad, I was born at Highland Park Hospital in 1958. God Bless you who have stayed in Highland Park. I hope the obvious ego issues in your local government devolve, and hope is restored to your community, and it begins to thrive again.

@reneetuer3525 Жыл бұрын

People are responsible, the people voted into office, people who become parents and don't teach their children manners, respect, responsibility and honesty. It's not hard to figure out, it's happening everywhere. It all starts at home, and then pray our leaders do the right thing. Every person in this country us entitled to an education, but not ever person gets it, nor other basic things many of us take for granted. Sad, this is happening and our leaders aren't paying attention. Look what happened in Flint, again, leaders making stupid decisions.

@TheRVSN 6 ай бұрын

Neither state nor city government are responsible for city state. They always use program or program-adaptive control functions that work with outdated data - that is by design. A city budget will always be insufficient with tax model. Only predictor-corrector control function covers all stages of management (Full Management Function). Conceptual power is the power of ideas that have dominated human society for thousands of years and the power of people who are able to generate such ideas. It is the highest intra-social type of power out of 5 existing ones: conceptual, ideological, legislative, executive, judicial. Conceptual power: - recognizes factors affecting society; - introduces them into his system of stereotypes; - forms vectors of goals in relation to each society; - forms management concepts for achieving development goals. It is autocratic by nature and ignores the "democratic" procedures of society, which do not see and do not want to recognize its autocracy. Global predictor decided at the time to move production from Detroit, USA to South Korea. City officials elected by you can do nothing with this.

@HJKelley47 Жыл бұрын

My family once lived in Highland Park, Mi. I attended 1-3 grade in Highland Park in 1953-1956. It was a nice community to live in at one point. Attended Highland Park Community College before transferring to Wayne State University.

@michaelsheedy 7 ай бұрын

It's too bad Ford never turned the old Model T plant on Woodward into a world class tourist attraction...the home of the 1st moving assembly line. It could have brought in people from around the world.

@David53D 7 ай бұрын

The decline started with government housing.

@msnos6245 Жыл бұрын

I was wondering why abandoned homes are never demolished?

@eriko5647 Жыл бұрын

someone gotta pay for them. no taxes, no money.

@surferbri5346 Жыл бұрын

Pay for it

@kevinakakp9120 Жыл бұрын

It doesn’t matter who is in leadership, there’s not enough people, no taxes, 21 million debt for water alone…that is astronomically outrageous, that is a catastrophe. They are going to have to get a major player in town, who or what that will or could be, nobody knows. HP may have to become a resort town, a vacation spot, surrounded by parks, bike paths and nature reserves, maybe a solar park or build a lot of affordable homes for working people. There is absolutely something that will be done, when will it be done is the big question. 50 thousand people down to 5 thousand leaves me to believe that nothing residential is there.

@sonjabridgeman6454 Жыл бұрын

I was told it was beautiful back in the days

@averageamerican786 Жыл бұрын

When whites still lived there

@bscottb8 Жыл бұрын

2:16 McGregor Public Library, the 1926 Beaux Arts masterpiece designed by Tilton & Githens. It's a shame that one of the country's most beautiful libraries sits forlorn and unloved.

@1PrinceJay Жыл бұрын

It was and I’m 40

@theodoremonroe6440 Жыл бұрын

I remember when my family moved to H Pilla in 1978. My Grandfather said “ Highland Park allies were leaner than Detroit’s streets “ It’s the leadership, when you got Mayor Yopp blackmailing its citizens how can anyone come up?

@pablotupone4190 Жыл бұрын

You moved to there when decay had started....cuz decay started in the end of 50s...😢

@ryanscott4866 Жыл бұрын

i doubt that Detroit was one the cleanest wealthiest cities in America at one time

@tholokrys1800 6 ай бұрын

Detroit was the richest city in america and maybe the world back in the day..@@ryanscott4866

@joshmarauder Жыл бұрын

we know what really made highland park end up the way it did .and we gonna keep it to ourselfs so it wont lead to other things

@askme4450 Жыл бұрын

What was it?

@larryjohnstone6260 7 ай бұрын

Drugs, sending manufacturing to China, political stupidity, ( look at California), and the lack of pride many people have in themselves brings down society through their actions.

@jimlubinski4731 7 ай бұрын

This is incredibly sad. It's seeing things like this makes me more upset every time I see an Asian car in my neighborhood. If we had supported our own country, we wouldn't have so much poverty in the areas that once thrived by the automotive industry. I still only drive American, but really is there any real American car left? In the push to stuff the pockets of the top executives, everything became "globalized." I got into a "discussion" many years ago with a Buick executive at the Miami International Car Show. When I said that I would feel betrayed if I bought a Buick and then found out it was made in China (which was the concept he was pushing), I would feel betrayed. The guy became so irate, I was ready to call security. I'm guessing he was one of the proponents of said globalization. I'm sure he is living a very comfortable life while those people who worked for Buick in Flint either had to leave or are living in poverty.

@David53D 6 ай бұрын

The economics of government intervention caused importation becoming more financially viable . Greed is part of human nature and self interest is human nature.

@marcelmoulin3335 Ай бұрын

Watching from the Netherlands, I am horrified that there can be such profound squalor and deprivation in the richest country of the world. How could Highland Park and so many other places have been allowed to deteriorate to such a degree?

@NeilBaker722 5 ай бұрын

Cornfield to cornfield; forest to forest. Rest in Peace. May 500 year old massive old growth trees someday find it home.

@dlburke1 7 ай бұрын

I know what happened. 🙄

@BobSmith-mc7uq Жыл бұрын

HP.....Pull the plug..bulldoze the the rot.

@tonicalloway7227 Жыл бұрын

Wrong people running it..the mayor has to go after new business..check the mayor..

@jeremywest4295 Жыл бұрын

So funny seeing the streets I travel everyday in this video. They have tons of construction going on there all over the place all year so hopefully things improve soon

@David53D 6 ай бұрын

A great scam is having a friend who lives in Hamtramck or Ferndale allow your kids to use their address for free schooling.

@stickynorth 7 ай бұрын

This is the problem with fragmented cities. They should all be merged into a Super Detroit as it were...

@JayYoung-ro3vu Жыл бұрын

Arrogant politicians never listen. Hopefully, the new leadership can turn the city around. If not, how about unincorporating and returning to Wayne County?

@kagome122885 Ай бұрын

I hope to see Highland Park make a comeback, mainly due to the city's history

@taylorcampbell4294 10 ай бұрын

I grew up on 2nd Street And Grove St. id love to see HP come back.

@armonrakhman3791 Жыл бұрын

Sale the homes for $1

@Dallas_K Жыл бұрын

That is SELL, not sale.

@Dallas_K Жыл бұрын

Remember the Manhattan Project? Perhaps it is time fir the Highland Park Project. Lived there. Wasted time.

@6548ww Жыл бұрын

The US Automakers closed most all plants here and opened them in Mexico and Canada

@leonardcollings7389 Жыл бұрын

It was nice and well kept while the older generation of Polish people owned it. Sometime in the 80s Albanians took it over and rapidly turned it into a slum; unsafe even during daylight hrs.

@maundamartin59 3 ай бұрын

Back in 1977 highland park was wonderful.

@jeremywest4295 Жыл бұрын

Right next to Shep's is a methadone clinic. Lots of addicts around there everyday. She's right to carry a gun with her to the car. Crackheads sleep in the abandoned buildings all around her business to this very day

@nunyabiz1780 Жыл бұрын

why doesn't wxyz state the side effects of the pharmaceuticals they advertise?

@HagiaFantasia Жыл бұрын

Henry Ford didn't wanna pay taxes so he left and took his business with him. And you can thank white flight and redlining for this.

@getminesallday24 Жыл бұрын

So with out whites the blacks are f'd just my question

@surferbri5346 Жыл бұрын

Are you high, half of Detroit still has Henry fords name on it, hospitals, schools, white flight happened when blacks decided to make it unsafe and whites being smarter than blacks, left. Highland park is a masterpiece to the black movement

@averageamerican786 Жыл бұрын

Why cant the city residents organize a clean up in 30 fkin years? Lmao what a joke. Plz mr gubment help us we's too lazy and stupid to get anything done.

@ryanscott4866 Жыл бұрын

The citizens can’t fix what the city started you can’t put that on them the city hasn’t been paying they bills jobs resources have left drugs crime and corruption took over poor management hasn’t helped

@green_heart6560 Жыл бұрын

It’s too late

@rgray3173 Жыл бұрын

Yet they keep voting democrat.

@gorgeousbraggs5360 Жыл бұрын

Agree and think the democrats dont do nothing wrong.What you think is good is not always good? Whats you think is bad is not always bad?

@krendellbreaux7825 Жыл бұрын

Sure

@killerontheloose80 7 ай бұрын

I believe 1951 Chrysler left New York City as their headquarters and then they went to Highland Park Until 1993 ish

@MrHorse-by3mp Жыл бұрын

I hate to say it, but you look at the abandoned gold rush ghost towns in the deserts of the Southwest and Highland Park is no different, only on a bigger scale. It has lost its reason for existing at all.

@G-nyc1644 Жыл бұрын

When the Town went all brown, it was on its way down DOWN

@asan6914 Жыл бұрын

Vote the same people and policies and expect a different result!

@marvettamarie6735 11 ай бұрын

Our Leaders here basically sold Us out before & after Martha Scott.

@jeffreysantner3717 7 ай бұрын

Maybe Elon Musk could buy Detroit and give the joint a little tidy up?

@lafawnodon1889 3 ай бұрын

"Elon Musk Don't For His Foreign Reason Want A Deserted American Decayed City So Sorry About This Very Grace Loss."😢😢😢😢

@lafawnodon1889 3 ай бұрын

Highland Park Isn't Detroit Could've Been Governed By Detroit Once Upon A Time!!!"😢😢😢😢

@eugenemarshall2571 10 ай бұрын

What city you know don't have a library or a McDonald's KFC just closed no burger king no parks for kids no restaurants one grocery store no secretary of state office maybe they should merge with Detroit i don't see it getting better it's only going to get worse

@DemocratsrPDFfiles Жыл бұрын

The fate of 99% of democrat run cities 🤷‍♂️

@shinmigami5664 Жыл бұрын

This comment is so uneducated it's dumb. How old is this country? How many cities were founded from the time this great country was started? How many of those cities are democrat ran? And finally how many of those cities don't look like that. It is the people who run that cause this not the style of rule. Don't be dumb.

@krendellbreaux7825 Жыл бұрын

Mississippi

@Anonymous-pm7jf Жыл бұрын

@@krendellbreaux7825 Honestly it's impressive how you just destroyed Ryan with one word 😂

@DemocratsrPDFfiles Жыл бұрын

@@Anonymous-pm7jf Detroit, flint, Chicago, boston, New York, LA , San Francisco all democratic shit holes 🙄 high crime full of degenerates just like you 🤷‍♂️

@DemocratsrPDFfiles Жыл бұрын

@@krendellbreaux7825 one state lol pathetic 🤣 blue states are shit and all are failing

@CPTR111 7 ай бұрын

Maybe the state of MI should make HP cede their city charter, can't have a first world city unless you have first world people.

@victoriagauthier2008 Жыл бұрын

Vote the democrats out, Vote no on proposal one, Proposal two, And proposal 3. Do not let satan get a foothold in Michigan... And the Demon-cratic Party.