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I live a few blocks from the brutalist site in question and I can see your vision for the neighborhood portion as well as the opening Brooklyn, but I would like to see the two office buildings...

Corktownyuppie,

My statement was a bit hyperbolic. There has been mostly gradual improvement every year I have lived in the city, so we actually do agree on that. My complaints stand, though,...

The prices are rising based on hype and not objective improvement. The CVS closes at 7pm, the Papa Joe's downtown hasn't opened, and yesterday when I wanted to go to a concert in the North End and...

I second all of that. Cabs are a horror show and not worth the effort. Regular Uber is a great service but too expensive to use regularly.

UberX is price-competetive with regular cabs, and the...

Professorscott's comments are so right that I am commenting just to encourage everyone to read them again.

25 minutes to Grandmont would be nice. I live downtown and rode 21 Grand River out there to check out Always Brewing one afternoon: 15 minutes waiting for the bus, 45 minutes from Washington and...

Zelda and the Unibrows just put out a video celebrating 25 years of The Detroit People Mover:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y22JpVbwcCA

Agree completely with the first poster. Last Summer, I was shooed away at *9* PM after walking for 30 minutes for the sole purpose of getting to the riverfront. The reason? "Some people got in a...

The layout of having concrete walls along the Cass and Times Square elevations with windows placed too high to see out isn't that great. Bad public behavior could take place on the sidewalk even...

The Wintergarden's retail space not only dead-ends on each floor at the South wall, but when you stand at the North end of the corridor to consider walking down the dead-end, the shop windows...

It makes sense that it was an auto dealership, the building goes back into a very large warehousey area. They photos of it from the 70s on their Facebook page showing a four-story urban building...

Parkguy, have you seen a rendering of the proposed Meijer? Please link. If it maintains a street wall, it's already doing more than expected for big-box.

I have often defended Meijer as "not evil" big-box retail, because it's privately owned by the family, has some focus on Michigan and organic products, and because the money stays in the state. I...

I recently joined Powerhouse Gym in Highland Park and now that I'm spending some more time there I'm more curious about the city. How did the city hall, fire and police departments become abandoned?...

So Occupy Detroit is annoying the occupants of Detroit.

I support the movement, but these people should be in West Bloomfield and Birmingham. And/or, they should pick up some of the houses...

BoA also has been refusing to close people's accounts. I closed mine several years ago because they were acting evil but I've forgotten the specifics. All of this makes me want to close it again...

Here are people being detained or arrested in New York for trying to close their Citibank accounts. See 1:25 in particular.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=S6svA6Qvq1U

I...

I think meeting for a dinner that slightly exceeds one hour is an acceptable use for street parking and is not "long-term". Rather than getting used to paying for a garage, costing generally five...

The extended parking hours have completely disfigured the way that I use the CBD, and it's now far less likely for me to go down for any evening activity, in large part due to the one-hour limit on...

Detroitnerd, do I know you in meatspace?

When I saw "group of experts" in the headline, I thought the people would be "expert" in rail transit. Maybe engineers from Spain, such as those profiled in the recent PBS documentary about Detroit...

If Jackson wants a large, contiguous site for a massive development, he should advocate the elimination of the downtown freeways. Each of the four cloverleaf interchanges downtown is larger than the...

Fire George Jackson
Demolish the DEGC

When I got to Royal Oak all of their street meters were closed and there were signs on every residential street prohibiting parking. I'm always a park-for-free-and-walk person, but I wasn't about to...

Gistok,

There are several aspects to this that demonstrate that we're collectively thinking backwards. All of us are already resigned our thoughts to the probability, without having seen a single...