Originally Posted by
esp1986
Agreed. Downtown needs to be more office space than anything else. Office space garners more people per square foot, thus generating more foot traffic. The surrounding neighborhoods such as Lafayette Park, Brush Park, Cass Park, and the East Riverfront are best served for the majority of downtown area dwellers.
There's a reason it's called the Central BUSINESS District... But if everyone wants to turn every dilapidated building downtown into lofts, there will be no room for that BUSINESS. If Detroit is going to come back, we need to have jobs downtown. At least double the 85,000 we have now. Personally, I think the Lofts at Merchant's Row, while a nice place to live, is a terrible use of that space...