What will the followng cities be like in 5-10?
Ferndale
Royal Oak
Rochester
Detroit
Eastponte
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What will the followng cities be like in 5-10?
Ferndale
Royal Oak
Rochester
Detroit
Eastponte
Ferndale 2015
Population 27,000
82% White, 13% Black, 2.4% Hispanic
A homosexual community along the Woodward/ 9 Mile corridor will continue to flourish. They will expand within 5 city blocks north and south of 9 Mile Rd.
Ferndale attempts to annex Royal Oak Township, voters approved. Ferndale now has a small full blown black community at the 8 Mile/Wyoming Area.
Ferndale 2020
population
33,978
70% White 33% Black 3.1% Hispanic
A black/homosexual riot just happened on 9 Mile Rd. west of Woodward Ave. Affirmations, a homosexual club was first to be burned down before it spreads to other retial strips. Fewer homes and businesses destroyed west of Woodward Ave. Clean up is on the way. Urban development is in the works.
Homosexual community is over 7 neighborhood city blocks within each Woodward Ave and 9 Mile Rd area. Black community has spread further to the east side of Woodward Ave and pass Hilton Rd. and futher northeast to the I-969 FWY. What's left of the white community is at the north of 9 Mile Rd, west of Woodward Ave. and near Pleasant Ridge border.
The warranty on my crystal ball has expired, but here's what it says:
Ferndale will grow slightly, struggle with the costs of administering the small suburb, and need serious help with revenue to continue to run.
Royal Oak will have sacrificed much of what was desirable about it by embarking on a series of big-ticket developments over the objections of its residents. Then it will struggle to provide services to those large developments, some of which will go vacant when the commercial real estate crash hits full swing.
Downtown Rochester will do OK, but the exurban areas around it will begin to show signs of wear.
Detroit will have certain zones where development will occur -- though it's the sort of mom-and-pop, small-business type development that the city leaders couldn't care less about. The real bonanza will be in giving sweetheart deals to big-ticket developers and urban agriculture business, the latter of which will flip their properties to big-ticket developers when the time is right. All these new developments will be empty within another 10 years.
Eastpointe will lose residents and will become majority African-American.
Oh, there's a hairline crack in my crystal ball. So I guess all that could be wrong. ;)
I enjoyed these peeks into the crystal balls. Not that I entirely agree with them, but they're fun prognostications, nonetheless.
I can tell you we are chomping at the bit to annex Royal Oak Township. I just hope someone doesn't beat us to it!Quote:
Ferndale attempts to annex Royal Oak Township, voters approved. Ferndale now has a small full blown black community at the 8 Mile/Wyoming Area.
Why do your future predictions refer to people of color and thier projected percentages?
I'm so sick of skin color being a factor in todays world.
You know, in the year 2015, we'll all be on speed-dial. You'll just have to think of a person, they'll be talking to you.
Will people be able to breathe underwater in the year 2015?
Quote: "Work to erase white privilege,"
What privilege? Some folks need to work on the "I can't because" attitude, all race or creed inferred. Anyone can do anything they want to do.
Question.....
......in the 10 to 20 year time frame proposed, will Plesant Ridge cease to be a viable community and be annexed into Ferndale?
Yeah Pleasant Ridge isn't a township, so why would it want to be annexed? It's like asking if the Grosse Pointes would want to be annexed to Detroit...
Granted it's been years since I lived there, but what's Plesant Ridge's tax base like? Through experience, I know a city can't live on property tax alone.
Will it matter after 2012?
It's too hard to say what will happen. It all depends on the kinds of jobs and industries we're able to attract to the region. If we can do a better job attracting new businesses, Ferndale will thrive. If not, the issues facing Detroit will metastasize into the inner suburbs.