Four Caterpillar excavator machines are lined up and ready to tear down a former juvenile jail in downtown Detroit.
Demolition of the Wayne County Juvenile Detention Facility, 1326 St. Antoine St., next to Hollywood Casino at Greektown, is set to start as soon as Thursday and last until mid-February, according to state documents.
The juvenile facility is one of four nearby county buildings that the county recently handed over to Dan Gilbert’s real estate firm as part of a land-and-development deal signed in 2018, which also included the site of the failed county jail project that was never completed…