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Just to be clear, I don't think it's impossible that it will ever happen. I think it's impossible now with current rents and interest rates, and it will probably take a while.

The Book Tower was...

I don't think it's good news, but it certainly has some upside. GM doesn't currently have enough employees at HQ to keep the RenCen ecosystem functioning well, and having those people at the Hudson's...

What's wrong with the fountain is that it has so rarely worked. Fountains are about water spraying around, and fountains that don't have water spraying around are bad fountains.

I'm not saying the...

Of course pretty much everything built in Detroit is subsidized one way or another, but it's going to be very difficult to finance anything with interest rates where they are. Many projects that...

A near total eclipse is very cool. I love the crescent shadows.

I have to say that a totality on a clear day is an almost completely different experience. I was in Jackman, Maine, which turned out...

In the old days the airport bus went to the Greyhound station, as well as a hotel or two. I can't say that that was the highest
amenity situation. I like the idea of a People Mover connection,...

Not in general. The market price of the existing debt presumably will already have risen as the credit quality of the issuer improved, so it will tend to be just as expensive as the new debt, so...

It's probably directionally correct, in that the Great Lakes area is probably going to become more of a migration destination in the future. But the timeframe we are talking about could be quite...

I don't think literally expanding the existing people mover loop makes sense--it already takes a fair bit of time to go around the loop. I also agree that you aren't going to get much benefit out of...

I would point out that Rite-Aid went bankrupt and is closing stores all over the place. They shut down hundreds last year and are planning to shut down more this year. Of course if theft is high at a...

You have to distinguish timescales here. Right this minute, plug-in hybrids are an excellent choice. But they are a transitional technology. In maybe five years, certainly in ten, they will be...

You can read their take on things here:
https://www.hermankieferdetroit.com/

They've rehabbed some houses, but they haven't done much other than some cleanup with the main site, as far as I can...

No car company has a dealer network until they have one. I can remember when Kia and Hyundai and Land Rover and [[longer ago) Honda didn't have dealer networks either. Typically existing auto dealers...

I don't think there's much danger in EV's from China capturing much of the US market--the tariffs are high and if that's not enough they could be higher.

The risk is that the Chinese companies...

This works for assets that have a constituency or visibility that gives other entities an interest in their preservation and/or improvement. I'd include institutions like the DIA and the Zoo. But...

It would be a great thing to have downtown, but it would probably need some kind of subsidized space. There's a reason it was in a random old mall space in Farmington Hills.

But really, I just...

The evidence from elsewhere in the US is that it will not. Certainly sometimes better-looking stuff gets built, but it's not at all the norm. Honestly, it's not surprising; if you live in a ugly...

I don't think these boundaries are particularly important, but the standard ones I've seen are:

Silent - 1928-1945
Boomer - 1946-1964
X - 1965-1980
Millennial - 1981-1996
Z - 1997-2012
Alpha?...

I'd love to see it, but are they going to run a new set of tracks? My impression is that the existing track, aside from not actually going to the airport, is close to unusable for a frequent...

It's not right. Of course, you could interpret it as a statement about the future, in which case we don't know if it's right yet, but it seems likely to be wrong. In any event, it's a substantial...

I don't know, but it seems to me like you might do it even if it were full--you can rent more units at what is probably a higher rate. It might just be more profitable. It really depends on the cost...

Honestly, just don't read Richard's stuff and you will be a lot happier and also less misinformed. Sounds like you are leaving, which is too bad, but that's certainly one way to avoid it.

There was an arcade at Greenfield Village, 40-50 years ago. It's been gone for a long time, but it seemed like a good idea. Arguably a lot of the Marvelous Marvin stuff would make more sense for the...

I would be surprised if it isn't profitable--there are a huge number of coin-operated machines packed tightly together, and that is historically a very nice, high-margin business. But I have no idea...

It would be a sad day if we lost Marvin's because they wanted to build a Meijers. There are lots of Meijers, there's only one Marvin's.

One could hope it could find another home, but I imagine...