"Next, doing this type of land razing might be just the thing for developers to step in take some closer looks. Who knows, sure it's still the Brightmoor everyone knows at the moment, but look what's going on in the old Herman Gardens area. Some group decides to come along, buy up all that land and put up a gated community? Such a thing certainly wouldn't be easy but maybe it could work."

Here's an idea - get someone to commit to that before you pour tens of millions of dollars into an area with the hope that maybe it will work. But that's not the Detroit way.