Ad Age - Meet the 'New' Motor City

Once-Insular City's Business Climate Warms to Outsiders -- and Green Shoots Are Starting to Show

On a recent morning at Zuma's Coffee Shop, an independently owned joint in the affluent Detroit suburb of Birmingham, a man in his mid 40s wearing jeans and a casual shirt sits in a windowless alcove hunched over his iPad, a BlackBerry on the table and a briefcase at his side. It's about 38 degrees, warm enough to melt the stubborn March snow cleaving to the roadsides -- sweater weather at worst for a native Michigander. Yet the man is clad in a down coat even inside the café.

http://adage.com/article/news/insula...siders/149499/

"the tubes"??

They're trying to call Nasser a local guy? Rick Wagoner at GM - he was a DUKE grad, not local at all.

This article is shit.

The financial situation with the formerlly big three got so dire, that they HAD to search outside the area for marketing help. It wasn't because they wanted to. They couldn't gamble anymore on the lousy work the Detroit area ad firms were offering up. I worked at three area the agencies, one for each brand, during my time in the Detroit area. It was awful. Unprofessional. Absurd what was going on.