RIP Park Avenue Hotel, 1924-2015
Watch 91 years of history implode in seconds.
For 91 years, the 13-story Park Avenue Hotel stood tall in the lower Cass Corridor neighborhood of downtown Detroit, an outer extremity of the city’s skyline. The building, once a luxury hotel that eventually went vacant in 2003, was imploded on Saturday, July 11, to make way for the loading dock of a new hockey arena currently under construction in the neighborhood.
Read more about the building’s 91-year history on HistoricDetroit.org, then watch the building crumble in seconds on the Detroit Free Press.
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