Quote Originally Posted by rb336 View Post
A friend of mine from back when I lived in NY joked that the artists in NY used to be in Greenwich Village, got pushed over to the East Village, then to Alphabet City. After that, they got kicked out of Manhattan to Williamsburg, then to Red Hook. Now they are getting kicked out of New York altogether, and they might just skip over New Jersey to come straight to Detroit.

It's a good idea. No city ever suffered from an influx of creative people. Bring 'em on and welcome them with open arms

Completely agree.

But if I might interpret the tabula rasa comment, I think it's a short way of saying that people moving in don't have any prior perceptions or expectations of Detroit. All of us who have grown up in or around Detroit know what to expect. We have our stoic attitudes or possibly even hate towards the place. But outsiders moving in have fresh attitudes and ambitions. The less they know about Detroit the better. It's the only way the city will move forward.