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Originally Posted by The North One
It's not really just about desirability. The overall health of almost all inner burbs have significantly improved since 20 something years, they're not on shaky ground as was once believed. Obviously the most desirable burbs maintain their positions but there was a time somewhere like Ferndale was considered icky and too close to the city proper and people wouldn't dare touch it. That attitude has completely reversed now.
The big changed in desirability is the city itself, a neighborhood in the city proper like Brush Park will soon surpass peak Birmingham property values.
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Yes. There is a lot of the tragicomic in this assessment; your last sentence about Brush Park reads like a snake oil sales pitch if you look at what is left of that neighborhood. Detroit's municipal goverment still green lights destruction of important buildings downtown for surface parking lots.
I don't see an end to the motion that has eroded this once great metropolis because like the auto industry, it bends to the cycles of boom and bust. Detroiters have a throw away mentality, a planned obsolescence stance as regards the realm of architecture, up to this day. Brush Park may be on the Up and Up now, but it is as fragile as the ton of decrepit buildings, and brownfields that dot the city.