Wow. Where did the Freep get that map. It looks nothing like the actual map the city provides. Hey Free Press, you cant just make up your own designs of the city and play urban planner for the day. I feel that alot of the discussion on this thread is based on this god awful map, so here is a link to an extensive powerpoint from the city that has a more accurate map [[along with several more) http://www.detroitmi.gov/Portals/0/d...esentation.pdf. The Freep map shows the following neighborhoods as "distressed:" Downtown, Midtown, New Center, Woodbridge, Eastern Market, hell the only greater downtown neighborhood that isnt erroneously listed as distressed is Lafayette Park. They also include Palmer Park [[not the apartments, the park itself for god's sake) as distressed. Getting past this god awful map, I think this plan is an excellent idea. Let's be honest, the city will probably shrink to 500,000, but that can be a city of 500,000 people living in successful districts. It makes no sense to pour just as much money into the neighborhood around city airport as Sherwood Forest. And to the idea that the city is only pouring money into Palmer Park or Downtown, that is an obnoxiously uneducated claim. The districts that will get the most attention, according to these designations, are the "transitional" areas. It really helps to read this set of maps and the accompanying data, not this made up image the freep gave us.