5 firms will offer staff cash to live in downtown Detroit
From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110723/...#ixzz1Szv1HP59

'Five Detroit-based companies are expected Monday to announce a new program that will provide financial incentives for employees to live in downtown Detroit and surrounding neighborhoods, similar to the Live Midtown initiative started earlier this year, according to a person familiar with the program.

The program called Live Downtown would involve Quicken Loans Inc., Compuware Corp., Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Strategic Staffing Solutions and DTE Energy, whose employees would be offered financial incentives to buy homes and rent apartments in the boundaries of downtown, Corktown, Eastern Market, Lafayette Park, Midtown and Woodbridge neighborhoods, the source said.

A news conference is scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday to announce the details."
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This is great news. The momentum of downtown and midtown is really becoming magnified.

I wish all of this demand/investment/furor over downtown would have happened earlier enough to have saved Old Cass Tech, though.