Are there new urban planning proposals for Detroit neighborhoods & downtown Detroit?

**DetroitPlanner** · May-06-12, 10:03 PM

How about Stadiums? Townhouses? Corktown infill? Riverfront walkways? Bike lanes? Transit Centers? Campus Martius? WSU housing? New hotels, casinos, B&Bs? Expanded DIA, Science, and Charles Wright Museums? Expansion of WSU, CCS, and DMC campuses?

**poobert** · May-07-12, 02:11 PM

Originally Posted by DetroitPlanner

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**professorscott** · May-07-12, 02:21 PM

There have been several types of development, scatter-shot, in various parts of the city. Nothing huge but I don't think "huge" is going to save us. The Ren Cen didn't; the casinos didn't; Ford Field is a very nice place to watch a football game but didn't save the City.

What will save the City is for basic conditions to improve enough that dozens, and then hundreds, and perhaps thousands of people can say, "you know what? It would be nice to live closer to Ford Field and the Fox Theater and not have to drive so far all the time".

Now the good news is, as I said, there has been some development: new condos, mostly in midtown but some others, things of that nature. If we focus on "basic conditions", as I said, it will pick up.

"Basic conditions" to me means schools, crime, transportation. You may have others in mind. So we have some positive movement, and still some things to work on.

**ghettopalmetto** · May-07-12, 02:45 PM

Originally Posted by DetroitPlanner

How about Stadiums? Townhouses? Corktown infill? Riverfront walkways? Bike lanes? Transit Centers? Campus Martius? WSU housing? New hotels, casinos, B&Bs? Expanded DIA, Science, and Charles Wright Museums? Expansion of WSU, CCS, and DMC campuses?

"Corktown infill" and "bike lanes" seem like the only neighborhood plans among this lot. The rest is just enormous-scale publicly-subsidized Projects with ribbon cuttings and press releases.

I think the premise of the original question [[Please correct me if I'm wrong), is whether or not Detroit has developed any holistic neighborhood-scale plans. You know, like a Main Street plan.

http://www.preservationnation.org/ma...rinciples.html

**mwilbert** · May-07-12, 03:09 PM

It was more than 30 years ago now, but I would say that the Virginia Park redevelopment might be something like what you are thinking of. Although I think it is kind of a waste, maybe the Herman Gardens redevelopment would count.