You sure like to over-exaggerate on the amount of decline/blight/crime on anything that isn't in Birmingham, including in perfectly fine areas of Southeast Michigan.
Things change... I wrote-off the office building complex and industrial corridor along I-75 through Troy a few years ago at the depth of the recession. However, in fact its bounced-back and filled-up remarkably over the past 5 years ago. Heck, even the old Circuit City outbuilding at Oakland Mall is being rebuilt into something new.
I'd argue that Clawson in fact is doing much better than it was about 10-15 years ago. Nothing like its hey-day, but at least now it has an identify, has gotten some new investment in the downtown intersection of Main & 14 and real estate is holding is own.
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