M a r k D i l l e y

That’s the thing about Ilitch - he restored the Fox Theater and did a beautiful job, but he owns many other old buildings in the area that he’s left abandoned for years, allowing them to rot, including the Fine Arts Building, the Adams theater, the United Artists Building, the Madison-Lenox Hotel (recently demolished after years of neglect), the Detroit Building, the Hotel Vermont and the Blenheim Apartments. That number pretty much outweighs his renovation of the Fox Theater. In fact, Ilitch owns more vacant buildings in the city than any other entity except the City itself.