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Good morning, this is Hannah Dellinger with Chalkbeat Detroit.

Detroit school district officials told Micah Walker of BridgeDetroit this week that they will fully demolish the historic, long-vacant Cooley High School building.

The news comes a year after the Detroit Public Schools Community District said it would preserve a portion of the 1928 building.

“Despite our initial intentions, once we started to understand specific costs for the actual project, the cost and timeline to preserve part of the building prevented our initial strategies,” said Superintendent Nikolai Vitti. “This was communicated during our last round of community engagement.”

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DPSCD moving forward with plan to demolish historic Cooley High School building

DPSCD moving forward with plan to demolish historic Cooley High School building

In 2025, district officials said they would preserve a portion of the Cooley High School building, but the high cost of that preservation was too much, and now the building will be demolished.

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