Amen, amen, amen. That money should go DIRECTLY t...

2010-05-14T15:50:39.266-05:00

Amen, amen, amen. That money should go DIRECTLY to tearing down those homes. That's the best thing that can happen for those neighborhoods.

I think Detroit is actually moving toward reducing...

2010-05-14T15:47:50.899-05:00

I think Detroit is actually moving toward reducing the size (boundaries?) of the city itelf. It needs to retrench like any other shrinking enterprise. Here, city services can not be provided to 1 person who lives in a far flung abandoned neighborhood. It makes sense to shrink, make your self more compact so as to be able to create efficiencies.

What I dont know (and I dont think Detroit knows yet either) is what happens to the abandoned areas? Maybe they will wait to see if redevelopment occurs. That probably makes more sense.

I think theat they are also trying to get a new public transit system going that would server the inner core and hopefully get development going that way. (Detroit is like INdy in that it has no public transit to speak of either).

It looks as if Detroit is recognizing the obvious, embracing the inevitable and is basically trying to reboot itself as a smaller more compact city.

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Amen, amen, amen. That money should go DIRECTLY t...

I think Detroit is actually moving toward reducing...