Quote Originally Posted by 313WX
Not exactly as far as the bolded.

The problem with Hazel Park and Warren is that they were heavily dependent on the good paying warehouse and factory jobs that, since the early 1980s, have since been automated out of existence or offshored.


In many other areas, old neighborhoods are able to transform to meet new needs. I lived in Richmond, Virginia for awhile, and there were tons of historic neighborhoods in that city that were somehow able to survive and do well despite a series of dramatic changes in demographics and economic conditions. Even though all the tobacco warehouses and other traditional forms of industry had left, still the neighborhoods prospered.

But in Metro Detroit, a factory closes and it's usually curtains for the neighborhood. Why is that?