“Within a few years it will be bustling with business and people. Where ever they go, the business climate gets crazy”.
In a very Third World way; it is cash businesses, and the work is kept in the family. They benefit themselves; they wouldn’t be paying the city’s bills...
Yes and no. My wife is Chinese-American. Grew up poor in a family with six kids. Her Chinese dad, despite limited english served in the U.S. Army during WWII (born here but raised in China), then brought his wife from China after the war. Struggled as a cook, saved money and opened a grocery store. Yes, the work was kept in the family. All the kids worked from an early age at the store. My wife tagged and stocked goods, made signs, and ran the cash register, all while under the age of 12.
But they generated income and paid taxes from the receipts. Her dad was able to buy property and generated more income and taxes from apartment buildings, again with the kids helping run things. The kids learned to work at an early age and carried it into adulthood, prospering, paying lots of taxes, unlike some other types of people in Detroit. It's a culture thing, not a third world thing.