Vision for Detroit: 100,000 working downtown by 2016

**Spartan** · April-17-13, 12:56 PM

Detroit Downtown Partnership annual meeting just finished. Didn't see a thread anywhere. Over 1,000 attendees apparently. Twitter #Detroit2016 with some live tweeting and info.

Downtown 2012 was its safest year in last 5. [[15% reduction in crime over 2011).

Want to add 1200 new residents, to bring total to 7000. "Live Downtown added 400 new downtown residents, combined w/ Live Midtown is 925 in last 18 mos." Downtown has a 97% occupancy rate, and growing. Expect 1000 new housing units downtown in the next 3 years.

Capitol Park development expected to begin this summer, retail and residential.

11,000 new employees downtown in last 18 months.

Have picked up 6.5 million pounds of trash through Clean Downtown program. Installed 137 new lights, improved uptime 85%.

From the Gov:
"It's not Detroit versus Michigan. It's Detroit, Michigan."

**AGinthe313** · April-17-13, 01:11 PM

Originally Posted by Spartan

Detroit Downtown Partnership annual meeting just finished. Didn't see a thread anywhere. Over 1,000 attendees apparently. Twitter #Detroit 2016 with some live tweeting and info.

Downtown 2012 was its safest year in last 5. [[15% reduction in crime over 2011).

Want to add 1200 new residents, to bring total to 7000. "Live Downtown added 400 new downtown residents, combined w/ Live Midtown is 925 in last 18 mos." Downtown has a 97% occupancy rate, and growing. Expect 1000 new housing units downtown in the next 3 years.

Capitol Park development expected to being this summer, retail and residential.

11,000 new employees downtown in last 18 months.

Have picked up 6.5 million pounds of trash through Clean Downtown program. Installed 137 new lights, improved uptime 85%.

From the Gov:
"It's not Detroit versus Michigan. It's Detroit, Michigan."

Thanks for posting

**Danny** · April-17-13, 01:40 PM

Detroit 2016

population: 775,945

78.8% Black, 16.1% White, 2% Asian, 8.5% Hispanic, 2% Arab Muslims 1% Other.

Mike Duggan is Mayor.

Dan Gilbert bought the Rennaisance Center from General Motors. GM will have its WHQ there until the corporation looks from another Downtown Detroit location to build a 90 story new WHQ.

Dan Gilbert brought Compuware and Cleveland Cavaliers. He decided to change the corporation to Omni Consumer Products or OCP. He plans to bring the Cavaliers to Detroit by 2022.

Hector Rodriguez became the first Mexican Detroit City Councilman to serve the 2nd district in the Southwest Side.

**gnome** · April-17-13, 02:03 PM

Wow Danny, you are really making some bold claims.

I will bet you that the 2nd District will be represented by Rashida Tlaib. What do you want to bet? a dollar? A bottle of Faygo? Better Made?

**Zug** · April-17-13, 02:05 PM

2016 isn't very far away. Maybe by then someone not named "Dan Gilbert" will decide to invest in the city

**tkelly1986** · April-17-13, 02:19 PM

Does anyone know the approximate number of workers downtown as of today?

**Detroitnerd** · April-17-13, 02:29 PM

Originally Posted by tkelly1986

Does anyone know the approximate number of workers downtown as of today?

I remember reading 100,000 somewhere, but I think that number may be off by as much as 50,000.

**TexasT** · April-17-13, 02:37 PM

Originally Posted by tkelly1986

Does anyone know the approximate number of workers downtown as of today?

According to the 7.2 Square Mile Report, 67,812 work in the Central Business District, 9,666 "adjacent" to the CBD [[Greektown and Foxtown I presume?), 34,813 in Midtown and 23,111 in New Center, for a total of 135,402 in the Greater Downtown area.

**Zug** · April-17-13, 03:07 PM

I think adjacent to downtown would be Corktown and Lafayette Park.

**TexasT** · April-17-13, 03:13 PM

Originally Posted by Zug

I think adjacent to downtown would be Corktown and Lafayette Park.

Agreed but they didn't say "adjacent to downtown," they said "adjacent to the Central Business District," which is a specific subsection of downtown, no?

http://www.city-data.com/neighborhoo...etroit-MI.html

**begingri** · April-17-13, 07:00 PM

Dave Blaszkiewicz, president and CEO of the Downtown Detroit Partnership, laid out a vision for downtown that includes a population of 7,000 and workforce of 100,000 by 2016.

In his presentation, made today in front of about 900 business and civic leaders at the DDP’s annual meeting at the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center, Blaszkiewicz also said this year’s goal for the Intern in Michigan program is to bring at least 5,500 interns to the downtown area.Blaskiewicz said 11,000 new employees have been brought downtown in the last 18 months, bringing the downtown workforce to 85,000. A total of 925 new residents have moved to the downtown and Midtown areas in that time frame, bringing the number of people living downtown to 5,800.

Dave Blaszkiewicz, president and CEO of the Downtown Detroit Partnership, laid out a vision for downtown that includes a population of 7,000 and workforce of 100,000 by 2016.In his presentation, made today in front of about 900 business and civic leaders at the DDP’s annual meeting at the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center, Blaszkiewicz also said this year’s goal for the Intern in Michigan program is to bring at least 5,500 interns to the downtown area.Blaskiewicz said 11,000 new employees have been brought downtown in the last 18 months, bringing the downtown workforce to 85,000.

A total of 925 new residents have moved to the downtown and Midtown areas in that time frame, bringing the number of people living downtown to 5,800.

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article...wntown-by-2016