I hate to ask a dumb question, but why should Chrysler move it's HQ to downtown, or anywhere in Detroit proper for that matter.

This is not a knock on Detroit, the company has always had a big footprint in town, but my dad worked at the Highland Park headquarters complex for 40 years. We have this tendency to forget that the only major auto company headquartered in Detroit is GM.

I think some people are trying to make too much out of the move. I don't know what the occupancy rate of the Dime Building is, but I think it's a good thing when any company rents 33,000 square feet of a major office building downtown, aparently with a long enough commitment to change the building's "name".