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Thanks for the comments. I would say that one of the folks above really highlighted the crux of it: investors have their own ideas about Detroit. You can either accept outside investment and let...

I think there's some of this everywhere. There isn't a city in the world without some degree of parochialism. I even reference New Yorkers' skepticism of billionaire housing investments as an example...

Oh, it's a completely different topic, but Eric McAfee [[a planner who spent a bit of time living in Detroit), had this piece taking a look at a mural on the Detroit-Grosse Point border:
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I wanted to share a link to my latest column about Detroit, linked here:

http://www.city-journal.org/2015/25_1_snd-detroit-recovery.html

I wrote this right about the time there was a flurry of...

A number of my railfan type buddies in Chicago suggest the Englewood Flyover is less of a boon to passenger rail than is commonly presented, and that the real winner is NS [[?). I'm not sure on this....