This post from the
RustWire isn't specifically about Detroit, but the sentiment is. Even though we are the 11th largest city in the nation, which might soon change after the census, the stigma on the outside, and by outside that could even mean the suburbs, is that there is nothing going on in Detroit. That it's a ghost town. We all know that is untrue. And so does this writer. However, he's removed the word Detroit and put in Cleveland.
Excerpt from the
RustWire:
In a discussion of urban development, one economist
(originally from upstate NY) asserted, "Detroit and Cleveland no longer
have an economic reason for being."
When I told people in
Chicago that I planned to return to Cleveland, most looked dejected and
some said, "I'm sorry."
Having spent a year now in Cleveland, I realize that it is not a
small city with nothing going on. It is truly a major city
with sufficient scale for most things you find in major cities. We
have finance and legal industries. We have designers and
publishers. We have bicycle messengers. We
have at least a half dozen companies that do nothing but walk dogs for
busy professionals. We have a sand volley ball league, a
dozen ski clubs, and thirty-some yoga studios. We have
immigrants from all over the world in our universities and running
ethnic groceries. We have commuter trains, valets, and
loft condos with concierges. Life in Cleveland is much more
like life in Chicago than people there, here, or elsewhere recognize.
Read the entire article here.
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