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Many buildings are allowed to deteriorate and are ultimately wasted so that something new can be built. The houses we saw in Detroit are just one striking example of wasted opportunity. I believe the coming years will see more thoughtful re-use of existing building stock. I wonder what the future owners of today's McMansions will do with them. The historic solution, seen in every city's Victorian mansions, was to convert many of them to apartment buildings. I wonder if that would happen a second time . . .