Well that is a perfect place to conduct such training.
If SpecOps wanted to recreate a Middle Eastern urban environment, they would have chosen Detroit.
Sorry, it is NOT.
After spending 30 years in and around the Spec Ops Community I have some idea as to how training and exercises are set up.
First there is a clearly stated goal.
Second there is environmental considerations. By this I don’t mean the public’s version of environmental concerns. When will the mission that the exercises supports go down? Where will it go down? What is the expected opposition - direct and indirect?
Once these basic answers are done then you start searching for an exercise area.
My first experience in this area was in 1978. The goal was to rescue passengers from a hijacked airliner somewhere in the Middle East. The time was at night. The location was at Indian Springs Auxiliary Airfield (now Creech AFB, NV). A small and very focused exercise.
In 1988 there was another excise that covered multiple areas in the Southeast. The objective areas and flight times to them matched OPERATION JUST CAUSE that was executed 12 months later.
Since then there have been other exercises - some of which matched real-world operations.
So what potential conflict will happen in a large industrial area involving large number of “brown” or “green” players?