Quote Originally Posted by animatedmartian View Post
What do you mean by large scale? Every major city has at least a huge area directly adjacent to the downtown area that is either all parking lot or vacant lots. Now most of those lots are being built with infill development. Chicago's south and west side look just as vacant as Detroit if only cleaner.
That might be true in the midwest but it's not true of every major city.

Detroit's problem is not blight [[Chicago's either, for that matter). Detroit's issue is that the underlying fundamentals of the market has made land in the city worthless. That is the problem that needs to be fixed and demolitions will not fix it.