NYT weighs in on public-private Detroit divide
A bit of a reality check from the latest report on Detroit by the New York Times, this piece examines the differences between what’s happening in the private vs. public sectors.
An exerpt:
For all the talk of a private sector renaissance, demographers say that much of the economic growth remains mostly around the downtown and Midtown sections, a small fraction of a vast 139-square-mile city that is otherwise wrestling with vacant homes, empty blocks, darkened streetlights, crime fears and overburdened police officers. While businesses have returned to Detroit, some others have left, and this city’s most essential problem, its swiftly dipping population, demographers say, has yet to reverse itself.
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