In reply to: Nice article on Detroit's real estate boom in the WSJ (link) posted by Raoul
Born and raised in Livonia, parents both and raised in Detroit, and we all had to evacuate Livonia in July 1967 for fear of the riots spreading to the suburbs.
It never recovered and won't recover in my lifetime. You can build up the downtown all you want - but you need at least 500,000 residents to come back in and they need to be educated and motivated.
Heck that list could be hundreds and hundreds of words.