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Originally Posted by The North One
This whole thread was started as troll bait.
You don't have special insight because you watched some bullshit on PBS, you don't know what's spilling outside of the core or level of investment going on now, you dont know how it compares to disinvestment that occurred in other US cities, the neighborhoods in the city do not live and die by what you feel. And that's it.
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It's not even worth it to respond to you, as you seem like a hopelessly insecure homer. I don't need to go through each of your examples to show how ridiculously cherry picked they are (and even then, don't show anything remotely comparable to the urban commercial offerings of a much smaller city- Pittsburgh). I don't need to cite the numbers of vacant and abandoned buildings in the city, or the foreclosure numbers, or post shots of decimated commercial corridors. Again, I really like Detroit and take no pleasure in its troubles. But I am realistic and objective. Detroit's troubles are unique in their scale and prevalence, and there really isn't much to argue about there. I'm not blaming the city for getting the way it is, and I'm certainly not blaming the residents. But let's be real about it.
FYI I was the one who called the OP out for the bullshit trolling that started this thread. My post was deleted of course, but I called Sunbelt out point by point on his BS list of 'reasons' he was considering investing in Detroit. I did so both in posts on this thread and PM. It's not fair or fun to kick a place while it's down, and I certainly did not intend to do that here.
Detroit is a place I visited a lot as a kid and it's a place I still really care about, despite what you or other homers might think. The more I learn about the city and its history, though, the more I realize just how daunting the task of revitalizing Detroit is. As a planner, it's hard to admit that I don't know the answer or have a strategy in mind that could work to bring the place back. But when you're not only fighting against physical blight, but also decades of racial injustice, the collapse of domestic blue collar industry, predatory banking and lending....it's pretty damn hard to be super optimistic. I have friends who work in Detroit in planning and other related fields, and I love to hear about the good work they're doing. Again, I wish nothing but the best for Detroit and the other cities dealing with similar issues.