Downtown Detroit employment numbers

[Jason]

Ann Arbor is a healthy compact city, which is great, but it's also a small city, so everything fits inside of their defined areas. If Ann Arbor was proportionally scaled up, they'd separate it into separate districts too.

Downtown Tuscon, AZ is in the highest density category, the same with manhattan [[and grand rapids...), but their downtown is like a handful of midrises and a bunch of parking lots.

Although these are all metrics we'd like to see Detroit improve in.

[Khorasaurus]

Ann Arbor is a healthy compact city, which is great, but it's also a small city, so everything fits inside of their defined areas. If Ann Arbor was proportionally scaled up, they'd separate it into separate districts too.

Downtown Tuscon, AZ is in the highest density category, the same with manhattan [[and grand rapids...), but their downtown is like a handful of midrises and a bunch of parking lots.

Although these are all metrics we'd like to see Detroit improve in.

Good point on AA - I suspect the medical center, UM's central campus, and maybe even north campus are all considered "downtown" by this study, where in a larger city they would all be separate employment districts.

Grand Rapids actually has a very dense downtown, because it is trapped between the river and a steep hill. They also have two hospital complexes, a community college, and a bunch of GVSU facilities all crammed into that relatively small area. I'm not surprised they scored well on job density.