Flint Central High

 Flint Central High (and the attached Whittier Middle School) are magnificent old buildings right smack dab in the "College Cultural Area" - next to the library and the Flint Institute of Arts - that have been empty since 2009.  Apparently people (we know one for a fact) have offered to buy the buildings from the city, but they've held off, the suspicion being that they would eventually get a deal from some salvage company to demolish them.  The past year or so they've really started to go downhill - it was obvious that people were breaking in, graffiti started to cover the outside, and parts of them appeared burt-out from the inside.  BUT!  A couple of months ago wire fencing appeared round the perimeter (which was annoying to me because, thanks to the old Mott parking structure that had provided a route from home to UM being shut, I was cutting through the grounds of the high school - no longer.  I now have to take a slightly less convenient route on my bike.

Anyway, a couple of days ago they "broke ground" on a NEW Flint High School.  As usual this is funded by the Mott Foundation, Mott being one of the early GM guys (also the apple sauce) who made his mint here and set up the foundation which seems to have bottomless cash, to the tune of about a hundred million dollars!!  And this is what you see when you go past now:

In that last one, the dirt on the left is where there used to be a basketball court, which so far is the only visible construction (destruction) work they've done.