Detroit will never be NYC or Chicago. It just won't happen. LA and ATL, I don't know if they can touch LA with their high end shopping/retail either in the surrounding area. But why do we need to? We can have our own unique thing here and we don't need to confirm to "BE" NYC or Chicago. Just let this thing happen organically and see where we are at in 20 years.

But if we are speaking in terms of architecture or importance of architecture, I don't think LA or Atlanta is even close. Strictly speaking of downtown, neither of those cities has anything nearly as impressive as we do.