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| Wurlitzer Building | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1507 Broadway St., Detroit |
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| Status: | Closed | AKA: | |||||||||||||||||
| Style(s): | Renaissance Revival | Architect : | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||
| Owner: | Paul Curtis | Architectural Firm: | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||
The building later had various other businesses and offices. It closed around the mid-1980s. Around late October 2005, accent lighting aiming at the Wurlitzer was installed along the near-by people mover track, lighting the building up at night. Paul Curtis, a Detroit lawyer who owns the building, has promised several times to redevelop it, but city safety inspectors have been documenting unsafe conditions at the building since October 2000. Months later, Curtis told the Buildings and Safety Engineering Department that he would restore the 14-story Wurlitzer, the Detroit Free Press reported. In 2003, building inspectors returned to the Wurlitzer and ticketed Curtis because of tiles falling off the facade and a defective fire escape. Curtis told agency officials once again that he would renovate the Wurlitzer. Curtis bought the Wurltizer for only $211,021 in 1995, city records show. He is now trying to sell it for more than $2 million and owes tens of thousands in delinquent taxes on the structure. Sadly, the Wurlitzer has been added to the city's hit list of buildings to demolish. |
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