Detroit will never be rebuilt.
American Auto is not coming back to Detroit, while they may keep their HQ’s there for historical reasons, and other facitlities in the area, all significant investment will go south and west where taxes and right to work rule.
MI going right to work might help some, but its still a tax sink hole and the US Auto Industry will NEVER be what it was in the 50s again. It will never again know a time when there was no effective world competition and they could own the market.
Europe rebuilt, and the Asian Rim is in the game.
Someday perhaps Detroit will shrink to “RIGHT SIZE” and get its house in order, but given all the wealth long ago fled the city due to mismanagment and black racism, that’s not going to even begin to happen for another 2-3 decades once those things get put into check, and neither of those is even remotely in check at present.
Its depressing to go anywhere near detroit. You can go to cities that were bombed into rubble and in less than 10 years look better than Detroit does.
Quote: “American Auto is not coming back to Detroit, while they may keep their HQ’s there for historical reasons, and other facilities in the area, all significant investment will go south and west where taxes and right to work rule.”
You are probably right but didn’t Michigan just pass right to work?
Even setting aside the lower taxes and right to work in the sunbelt, there is such a thing as a Materials Index that determines the most efficient place to produce a product based on distance from both your major raw materials and your customers.
In the 1920’s Detroit sat astride that very geographic spot. But since our population keeps shifting to the south and west, Motown finds itself far away from the ideal spot (which I think is in Missouri or Kansas someplace now)