Originally Posted by
dtowncitylover
It is? Stores that opened during this "comeback" have already closed. Madewell, GStar Raw, Under Armour. We all know District Detroit pales in comparison to what was promised. How about all the parking lots that are still existing. The residential units being built, which is good, are still not enough. We need both condos and apartments towers and the dense single family terraced row housing, that cities the world over have. Heck, the development happening seems to be like Detroit's neighborhood problem, that its condition is block by block. Sure one block looks refurbished, but you move one or two streets over and its either ruin porn that hasn't been torn down yet or an urban prairie.
So the point of my "inane rambling" is to say that retail, in the past 100 years in downtown Detroit only existed and was supported by a city that came downtown to shop. That is not happening on the scale in which retail can fully thrive and if we want it to stay, we are going to need a population jump that I don't see happening. I'm not saying there aren't people moving in, but we need many more residents, and we need for them to stay.