Originally Posted by
313WX
It's sort of a catch-22 though.
The folks that we want to attract [[20-somethings) need jobs from the "hypothetical idiots" with the businesses in Southfield, Dearborn or Troy. They're going to need cars to commute to/from these establishments, since inter-city transportation now is next-to-non existent.
In fact, giving the price of gas, these 20-something folks will likely not want to have the long commute to Southfield/Troy/Deaborn to downtown Detroit everyday, since the purpose of moving downtown in the first place was so they could be in walking distance of everything they needed and perhaps keep some of their transportation expenses down.
So instead, they're just going to leave for a city where everything is centralized, such as Chicago.
So essentially, it's a zero-sum situation for us.