Originally Posted by
Bham1982
And here's yet another one. I have to give Chicago props on this. They keep the propaganda pumping, and it does seem to work.
There is, of course, so such thing as an official downtown classification, so there's no way to do a comparative analysis. Any city can have the "fastest growing downtown"; you just need to find a sample with a fast rate of growth.
And, looking at the study, that's exactly what Chicago did. They measured
"rate of population growth within radius of City Hall", which encompasses the [[previously empty and uninhabited) rail yards of the South Loop. New York's City Hall is surrounded by landmarked neighborhoods, and isn't even in the main central business district; Miami's City Hall is nowhere near its downtown and almost in the suburbs.
So, yeah, the study, while totally ridiculous, makes sense. When you convert a railyard to condos, it will have more growth than established urban neighborhoods.
Detroit should move its City Hall to the most empty part of Delray or Brightmoor, and then they should build a couple of homes right in the vicinity. Maybe they could take #1 next year.