By David Sands Authorities were baffled by a geological incident that caused the ground itself to buckle in Detroit’s Delray neighborhood last fall. On the night of Sept. 11, 2021, the intersection of Dearborn and West Fort streets experienced a shifting of the ground that left a roughly eight-foot-high mound of earth. The upheaval disrupted […]
A war between municipal officials and executives with a southwest Detroit scrap metal facility appears to be raging amid fallout from a street failure more than three months ago. The battle playing out in various Detroit courts stems from an infrastructure failure at the corner of Fort and Dearborn…
The “ground shift” in southwest Detroit in September shook the surrounding area, caused the roadway to buckle and forced the demolition of a building. Now, an engineering firm’s report commissioned by the city says the most likely culprit was a nearby scrapyard.