Demolitions On Detroit's East Side A Mystery, But Welcome

Six Blocks On Detroit's East Side Mysteriously Cleared
A worker uses a bulldozer to push debris from Superstorm Sandy into a large pile in Lavallette N.J. Friday, Jan. 4, 2012, shortly before Congress voted to approve aid for storm victims. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
A worker uses a bulldozer to push debris from Superstorm Sandy into a large pile in Lavallette N.J. Friday, Jan. 4, 2012, shortly before Congress voted to approve aid for storm victims. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

A six-block swath of Detroit's most desolate urban prairie is being methodically cleared this week — without celebration or comment from officials.

Although the half-dozen bulldozers and excavators busily hauling away brush, moving hillocks of tires and demolishing the charred husks of century-old houses may be a welcome sight to the area's few remaining residents, their origins are a mystery.

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