Posted Nov 26, 2014, 5:42 PM
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Originally Posted by hipster duck
Yes, I have been to Detroit.
Downtown Detroit is improving, but let's put things in perspective: Detroit is a metro of 5 million people. For a city of its size, Detroit has the most feeble downtown outside of Phoenix, AZ and maybe the Texas cities (downtown and midtown Atlanta is noticeably more vibrant). Hence the sunbelt comment.
Everywhere outside of the American sunbelt + Detroit, cities of 5 million people have square miles upon square miles of intact urban fabric, teeming with hundreds of thousands of city dwellers leading their everyday urban lives. They don't have to give tax breaks to coax people to come downtown to work and eat at their restaurants. The downtown is the natural meeting spot that people from all over the region gravitate to, and civic leaders are worried that their rail infrastructure will support all the people who want to come.
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Your view is very outdated, the city's core is increasingly busy and attracts people from all over the metro area. People aren't coming DT because of tax breaks, they're coming DT because it is the place to be in the region now. It still has problems, but it is increasingly vibrant now.
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