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9. Would you build anything in Detroit?

Fri Jun 3, 2016, 06:40 PM

Jun 2016

It is just a Potemkin Village downtown surrounded by several square miles of total blight and anarchy.

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It's concentrated in 2 cities StarTrombone Jun 2016 #1

No, the tech hubs, too LisaM Jun 2016 #2

But much of that wealth ends up on Wall Street StarTrombone Jun 2016 #6

Wall Street, as known, is a corpse walking. AngryAmish Jun 2016 #14

Actually DC is home to some of the poorest. tonyt53 Jun 2016 #3

That's in the city StarTrombone Jun 2016 #5

Would you build anything in Detroit? 1939 Jun 2016 #9

Not sure when the last time you were in Detroit was.... LisaM Jun 2016 #11

NIMBY isn't the problem, density isn't the solution Sen. Walter Sobchak Jun 2016 #8

I see this as a good thing in a lot of ways. Egnever Jun 2016 #10

There is a shift to metropolitan living taught_me_patience Jun 2016 #13