Posted on 05/19/2016 11:35:28 AM PDT by C19fan
“Indeed it is, but 20 years from now you will not recognize Detroit based on its current state.”
Detroit is already unrecognizable to anyone who has lived there or visited there in the past sixty years. It looks like a war zone. It’s like Hiroshima the day after the atomic bomb was dropped. I hear people make your claim frequently, but when pressed to validate how they make the claim and on what evidence it is based, all I hear is that a few blocks in the downtown corridor are being leveled and rebuilt. But how such minimal improvement will help the vastness that is the outlying neighborhoods in greater Detroit is never addressed in these pipe dreams.
“Properties surrounding the downtown area have been snatched up by investors and the trend is expanding outwards with all the abandoned lots up for sale and the city’s effort to tear down all the abandoned houses.”
This claim, too, is ridiculous on its face. People are buying decrepit properties for pennies on the dollar in defaulted tax sales and business bankruptcies. The abandoned lots are in mile after mile after mile of totally destroyed neighborhoods that will never be worth a plug nickel. How do you re-develop a property that has a burned out hulk on its site with a crumbling concrete basement atop buried sewer and gas pipes with overhead electrical lines falling down on the debris? People who claim that the property should be bought for any coming future development are absolutely delusional.
“There is definitely a transformation going on that folks here don’t understand or recognize since they’ve never been in downtown Detroit...thus their constant ridicule.”
Well, I’ve been to downtown Detroit and I can assure you that I see very little in the way of serious development outside of the entertainment district which consists of nothing but sports stadiums and liquor bars. Such government-subsidized monopolies deliver nothing to anyone of lasting value that a community can use as a growth anchor for viable and sustainable neighborhoods.
“If I were young and had the means, I’d start buying the vacant lots further out and wait until they come in demand...which they eventually will.”
You, sir, are completely delusional and will, no doubt, be made utterly bankrupt by your pie-in-the-sky notions, should you foolishly follow through on your idiocy. The government of Detroit and their crony capitalist shills have been touting Detroit as the “Renaissance City” ever since Hizzoner, Coleman Young, was elected Mayor in 1974 and began to preside over the relentless forty year collapse that has resulted in the jaw-dropping images we see of Detroit that has made it the dysfunctional laughingstock of the entire world.
Looks like a good place for some post apocalypse film-making.
Oh really? When was that?
For what purpose?????? The taxes owed are being waived but have to be paid going forward. So why would they do that?
You, sir, are completely delusional and will, no doubt, be made utterly bankrupt by your pie-in-the-sky notions, should you foolishly follow through on your idiocy.
You sir are the foolish idiot who has no idea of the transformation this city is going thru. So stop it with your nonsense since you have no idea what you are talking about...............
Plans for new Detroit Red Wings arena district expand
When you rebuild a house (city) you start from the foundation and expand outwards and that is exactly what Detroit is doing starting with the downtown district..........
Once again, why would investors buy decrepit properties for pennies on the dollar unless they recognize the future?
Yes, we really couldn't have gotten back at the French for bombing Pearl Harbor if we didn't have those B-52s during World War II. Or did you mean the music group? They were out of Athens GA in the 1970s.
I take it that you got a public school education in some northern urban system?
My mistake, it was the B-24 Bomber.......I would have thought you got the intent of the post but obviously I was wrong.......
But your snark is duly noted..........
Willow Run was closer to Ann Arbor than it was to downtown Detroit. Detroit was roughly twice as far as Ann Arbor.
In 1950, America had the highest standard of living in the world. And the city with the highest standard of living in America was its fourth largest, Detroit.
All that it took to end that was a series of riots, the civil rights revolution, and Coleman Young.
And what city was Ford headquartered in?
Now you're parsing words and moving the goal post.........get lost. Epic Fail!
Sheesh!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_race_riot_of_1943
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Detroit_riot
To claim that the B-24, manufactured by Ford, was assembled closer to Ann Arbor and thus should not be attributed to Detroit is about as ignorant as one can get....
“If I were young and had the means, I’d start buying the vacant lots further out and wait until they come in demand..............which they eventually will.”
They will never be in demand as long as there is an Afro-gypsy population there awaiting funding; they tried this in Asbury Park NJ (hoping to attract wealthy queers) but when the queers realized there would be no mass expulsion of blacks they lost interest. They were to be bled dry paying for all of the blacks’ “services”...
I remember a news story a few years back where they were going to attempt to concentrate the remaining residents in a smaller area (abandoning whole stretches to return to nature as parkland). Emergency services were having issues responding to incidents while driving through blocks upon blocks that were either vacant/abandoned or had a couple of inhabited homes each...
I don’t know how it is going to shake out, but historically I can’t think of any black urban area that recovered economically without the mass expulsion of their black populations. Pseudo-economies of government projects and other non-taxable entities don’t cut it; the urban black populations have costs and crime that are simply too high to tolerate. Gentrification is the only way to go, and buying up the abandoned properties makes sense only if you can get ALL of them (in other words, the blacks self-deport to another locale).
Dearborn. Although it is a Delaware corporation.
Speaking of World War II, they did pretty well making trucks for the Werhmacht. For some reason, their competitors kept getting bombed by the Americans, but the Ford plant kept getting left off the target list.
No, at some point tax policy kicks in, and the hold out poor folks can be taxed out of their homes, supplemented with targeted code enforcement and focused law enforcement efforts.
Thought of you when I saw this thread:
Detroit listed as a city to “Never visit alone” (2nd on World List)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3432158/posts
Nobody is going to move in until they’re gone, that’s for sure...
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