But why not take your idea to its logical termination, and demolish EVERYTHING in Downtown Detroit to create a vast lagoon of parking. Explain your idea how this endless sea of surface parking lots is going to help the City of Detroit.
Explain how those seas of parking will become viable buildings with businesses in them.

I've watched Downtown become a ghost-town over the last 30 years, I still work there, but I remember crowds on the streets everyday, not just festival days.