The potential capping of the highways that gash through the fabric of Detroit's neighborhoods as been discussed here many times but there was a great blog in the Chicago Tribune's Cityscapes blog today highlighting a project in Columbus that seems the most economically feasible plan I've seen yet. I realize Detroit, like Chicago and the rest of the U.S., has a glut a retail space but perhaps there is a way to conceive something similar to this between John R and Cass on I-75 or any of a number of other locations.

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune....-offers-m.html