The Detroit News. Demolition comes after years of delay. Four towers of the Jeffries Housing project were imploded Sunday, each 14-story structure falling in succession like dominoes into a pillar of dust. The Detroit News Workers check out of the rubble left after the implosion of the Jeffries high-rises which in recent years had been plagued with management problems and crime. The single-family homes, duplexes and town houses will be from 1,400 to 2,600 square feet.
Public funding makes up less than one-third of total cost.
Hundreds of onlookers lined Martin Luther King Boulevard to witness the event. Sunday's demolition comes after years of delay for the project. After World War II, one of the great migrations in human history began as 3 million Southern blacks moved north to Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and New York City. Everybody was trying to get in there, the cream of the crop. But problems began in the late 1960s.