Detroit Turnaround 
This article somehow doesn’t pass the sniff test.
According to his own site, Mister Florida is an “Urbanist, Author, Professor, Researcher, Talker, Bike Rider, Guitar Player”
Well, Isn’t that just so special? Detroit is in a turnaround.....if this weren’t so patently ludicrous it would be funny.
You see and hear this push/prod wishful thinking every damned day from so-called experts on the Radio, TV and in Print. Usually, they have some sort of vested interest like the dweeb here in Atlanta that just can’t find anything bad to say about unemployment, the stock market or the economy.
If you dig far enough, you’ll invariably find some sort of vested interest that precludes them from making any ‘expert’ opinion or from giving advice.
This spew isn’t even worth the trouble posting it.
I just knew the yuppies would come through and save Detroit.
Detroit Turnaround
They should change their name to Phoenix if they can get something out of those ashes.
Not so ridiculous as everyone here is making it out. Detroit has become a pet project for liberals; the rock-bottom real-estate makes it super-affordable to live in; is it really open-carry? That would help people feel safer moving in.
Come on, guys: Buy low, sell high is the mantra for capitalism. It’d be kinda goofy if only liberals recognized that. Is Detriot a basket-case; yes, and it has been for so long that its basket-case status has been priced in by everyone. Is Detroit ever going to be a capitol for capitalism, literally driving the American economy again? No way in hell. Is it a potentially savvy investment for some? Maybe. Can conditions for those stuck there improve? They can’t get worse.
Musicians and artists, the pillars of an economy, to the rescue...
Yes, I would go to Detroit to see the “leisure attractions”. You can wish that Detroit will change, but you can’t change those Detroit winters.
There is a hipster bunch there moving in
Drawn by cheap space and community of themselves
Way early to tell how it goes
And completely surrounded by serious zombies
The movie industry just flits from freebies to freebies. Once they find a better deal they will be gone.
That is very, very far from critical mass.
For comparison Newark, NJ has about the same numbers of the same demographic in a city half the size.
Democrats still run the place. eom.
I could see Detroit being a draw for producers of movies about armageddon, urban decay, failed liberal policies...
Oh, what am I saying??? Movie producers marketing in truth?
Here is the truth: Detroit stood in the post war era as a Colossus of manufacturing. Europe was flat on its back and Asia was a basket case.
If you wanted a car or a stove or most anything manufactured you came to Detroit. Unions and Corporate Detroit never thought the rest of the world would recover and they signed contracts that reflected this distorted view of life.
Then: the riots. 1967 was the beginning of the end.
It will never be what it was because it was a distorted market.