Midtown to get makeover of two apartment bulidings

**Danny** · April-25-14, 06:42 PM

Originally Posted by Django

"Hipsters march to the South" LMAO, thats a good one.

That whole area South of MLK to the freeway is just fertile. Once that hockey arena comes into play Foxtown and the Corridor [[some of you call it Midtown) will all melt into one. Wish I owned a piece of that.

They've been working on that corner of MLK X Cass for almost a month now. They also had a police raid next door to the corner building about a month ago.

The developers want to make sure that 'Crackhead' Corridor is wipe out, and all the homeless folks gather near the NSO center on the corner of MLK and Third St are moved away. Gentrification is here in the urban city. Young professionals are making their claim in Detroit.

jimmyr · April-25-14, 07:41 PM

Originally Posted by Danny

Young professionals are making their claim in Detroit.

A thread about two affordable housing apartments and you bring up yuppies. What do yuppies have to do with any of this?

But since you did, does data exist to back it up this deluge of yuppies into Detroit? Just how many yuppies made their claim in Detroit in 2013? Is there data out there that shows how many stay put after year one? Aren't they still offering the rent grant thing to yuppies who agree to rent for a year?

**SpartanDawg** · April-25-14, 08:45 PM

Originally Posted by jimmyr

A thread about two affordable housing apartments and you bring up yuppies. What do yuppies have to do with any of this?

But since you did, does data exist to back it up this deluge of yuppies into Detroit? Just how many yuppies made their claim in Detroit in 2013? Is there data out there that shows how many stay put after year one? Aren't they still offering the rent grant thing to yuppies who agree to rent for a year?

i'm one of dem yuppies.. moved to midtown from the burbs in july, haven't looked back and plan on staying here .. best decision i ever made

still remember everyone asking if i was crazy "dude you better buy a gun or something".

now my friends can't wait for weekends to come visit so we can go out downtown .. tide's turning

jimmyr · April-25-14, 07:47 PM

Did Comerica and Ford Field really make residential in foxtown/dtown pop? I'm too young to recall what that area was like. I'm just not sure I follow the logic that a hockey arena is going to make such an impact if two other stadiums didn't appear to do much for foxtown/downtown. It's still really quite down there after 5pm and on weekends if nothing is going on. I think a hockey arena can't hurt, obviously, but I just don't see how it's going to provide some residential boom is all.