This piece starts off a little gloomily (but not untruthfully) about the state of Detroit. And despite the bit of controversy Dan Gilbert is in right now with the Kwame situation, he has some good thoughts on pushing the city forward.
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"It's the opportunity to get in low and sell high," says Gilbert.
"It's an untapped market from an intellectual standpoint, and from a
physical standpoint there are great buildings. The idea is to get to
the tipping point where companies start believing that they can't
afford not to be in Detroit."
His intention is to recruit a
flock of innovative, edgy companies into the Campus Martius area. The
fact that Gilbert and Karmanos are onto the same notion has created
energy, a whiff of hope. "When they move, you start thinking, 'What do
they know that I don't know?' " says Rich Homberg, president of Detroit
Public Television. The station, which relocated to exurban Wixom, now
plans to open a new studio in Detroit.
Read the entire article here.
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