I haven't been to G.R. in over a decade and never had any interest in the city at all. But over the past couple of years, they've done a pretty good job of marketing themselves to the world. This article in the NYT's is fairly decent and you can see they're definitely taking notes from Detroit's success. They're currently building an outdoor produce market. It's good to see all of Michigan do well but it's pretty special to see Detroit being used as an Ideal urban model for other cities.

Detroit is on the right track no matter the naysayers!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/re...rowth.html?hpw