If you're not turned on by Detroit's new energy...check your pulse
Here is a nice puff piece with that title on Detroit revival by Robin Soslow in the Dallas Morning News. Remembering back when most of the outside views of Detroit were almost always negative, this yet another refreshing reversal from those bad old days.
The article gives a quick comprehensive overview and, remarkably!, doesn't mention Slows BBQ which was always a standard mention when the first of such 'Detroit is back' articles began appearing. Are we now in the post-Slows era?
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Boom and bloom have shattered the Motor City's gloom-and-doom reputation. Super-charged vital signs include a white-hot urban art scene, homegrown jazz, R&B, funk and electronic virtuosos, sensational bargain-priced food, coffee and craft beer, a fresh new
riverfront, a greenway where lush foliage competes with street art-splashed concrete slabs, new urban bike and kayak tours, and friendly residents excited to share their cultural riches.
Abandoned buildings are surging back to life. The
Aloft hotel opened last year in the David Whitney, a 1915 neo-Renaissance skyscraper with a jaw-dropping atrium. A labyrinth-like brewery now holds
Red Bull House of Art's galleries and studios.
Russell Industrial Center, an auto body factory designed by Detroit starchitect Albert Kahn that opened 1925, now holds studios [[Bill Poceta's glassworks,
Dana Keaton's fashions),
Michigan Hot Glass Workshop and galleries. Catch the Robots and Ray-guns exhibition. [
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