Originally Posted by
intelligentBeing
If/when Detroit houses another couple multi billion dollar employers. Jobs is the driver. Why did Detroit first boom? Jobs. Why does any city boom? Jobs. Everything follows jobs. The rise of Rocket Companies is really the best news beyond anything else. Things like U of M wanting to get involved with Detroit [[innovation center) show promise. Pulling companies from the suburbs aint gonna do it. We need NEW. Another rocket companies, another Ford, more businesses started. Michigan/Detroit should be the best place to start and operate a business, right now its Texas by a mile. With that in mind, the city and state should look to its "business friendliness", tax burden, red tape. There's some promise and some opportunity, need to ride off of RKT momentum to "come back". Metro has massive concentration of engineers [[might be most in US not sure), and tons of R&D, lots of potential with this stuff. Not some stupid insecure lifestyle company that employs 3 ppl. Actual companies that solve real problems with real market demand.
Edit:
Construction and housing and retail are all nice but those are all downstream from jobs. Cause and effect. Jobs is the cause, jobs is the driver.