who for decades has been buying property in Detroit — and generally drawing the ire of the city and others by accumulating large numbers of blight and code violations, sometimes operating ...

Detroit just struck a deal with the owner of scores of empty buildings. Both sides hope it will be a reset and result in fewer empty blight buildings.

"Being the co-founder of the Detroit Blight Busters, I will support anything that removes blight," Brownfield authority member John George said before Wednesday's vote. "So I am fully supporting ...