2023 State of City Address in Pictures Part 1

I found Mayor's the State of the City address mostly uplifting and inspiring. I found the presentation was polished and engaging. How about you?

I took screen snaps throughout so I'm starting a tour with this post.

Most interesting was that the event was held in the lobby of Detroit's most famous former ruin, The Michigan Central. Woulda thunk that ten years ago?

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Home values and ownership?

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Joe Louis Greenway? On its way.

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Love those curves! Has to make those house abutting the greenway attractive and more valuable.

More to come in later posts.

Didn't see the address? Here it is.
https://youtu.be/atOYOP7lFvw

I found both the presentation and the things they are accomplishing and have accomplished over the last 8 or so years to be stellar. The inside of the MCS is beautiful also

Losing cops and firefighters? Not so fast...

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Originally Posted by jcole

I found both the presentation and the things they are accomplishing and have accomplished over the last 8 or so years to be stellar. The inside of the MCS is beautiful also

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I remember seeing the inside of the MSC as a young child in the 1960s... and I found the interior tilework sort of like that in a public restroom. I wonder if the flat plasterwork walls are all, or if they will stencil on a tilework or stonework look?

Left Detroit for Nevada when I retired in '84. Will be back this August for a wedding. Looking forward to seeing all these positive changes.

What about jobs and employment?

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There certainly seems to be much to applaud that is stated in the address.

I would not want to take away from any of that, but also advise to take any boosterism, by any politician, irrespective of stripe, or City or level of government with a certain grain of salt.

In that vein, I though this fact-checker was interesting:

https://www.wxyz.com/news/fact-check...e-city-address

I noted the Detroit Promise Program highlighted on the State-of-the-City page.

Sounds like a great program; but the numbers the posted raise questions.

https://detroitpromise.com/

5,000 HS students benefiting since 2013 is what's stated.

But that's across 50+ eligible High Schools, so an average of ~100 per HS, divided by 10 years of the program, is 10 per HS, per year.

I frankly don't have the details on how the program has worked, or whether its been ramped up from a slow start, but I'm a tad underwhelmed by that superficial end result.

Its one of those reasons to look a bit deeper at anyone else's claims [[mine included), maybe they have merit, maybe any errors are tiny, etc, but then again, maybe not.

I found this news story on the program:

https://www.detroitnews.com/in-depth...in/4744633001/

Which in turn leads to this report:

https://www.mdrc.org/publication/motor-city-momentum

I found the article quite interesting, and it speaks to how complex it is to craft a working program.

It shows that the leading cause of Detroit Promise HS grads dropping out of college is lack of reliable transportation to/from same.

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Originally Posted by Ray1936

Left Detroit for Nevada when I retired in '84. Will be back this August for a wedding. Looking forward to seeing all these positive changes.

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Ray, If you have time, I'd love to buy you a beer.

Stromberg2

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Originally Posted by stromberg2

Ray, If you have time, I'd love to buy you a beer.

Stromberg2

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Mental note made. Will keep all posted.