Condo choices in Detroit

[Bham1982]

And this is a good illustration why your comments on this forum are held in such high regard....

Probably true, which in turn is a good illustration of why Detroit is in the shape it's in.

[motz]

Probably true, which in turn is a good illustration of why Detroit is in the shape it's in.

I think it's a better illustration of why the opinions of the suburbs on urban living are kinda jacked, Bham.

[Bham1982]

I think it's a better illustration of why the opinions of the suburbs on urban living are kinda jacked, Bham.

Yeah, probably true.

There's this disconnect here in the region. There's supposedly a want/need for a thriving urban core, yet many of the people promoting this ideal don't seem to understand the "secret sauce" for urbanity. You need organic, market rate, non-auto oriented growth or it doesn't work.

If you want condos with two-car attached garages, and downtown sports stadiums, and expanding convention centers, you can build nonstop from the river to 8 Mile, you're never going to get anything beyond a potemkin village of entertainment uses, and event-specific traffic.

[Eber Brock Ward]

Yeah, probably true.

There's this disconnect here in the region. There's supposedly a want/need for a thriving urban core, yet many of the people promoting this ideal don't seem to understand the "secret sauce" for urbanity. You need organic, market rate, non-auto oriented growth or it doesn't work.

If you want condos with two-car attached garages, and downtown sports stadiums, and expanding convention centers, you can build nonstop from the river to 8 Mile, you're never going to get anything beyond a potemkin village of entertainment uses, and event-specific traffic.

Astute post, and I detect a latent disappointment in there, too.

[rjlj]

Funny that you have switched your tone on auto centric thinking. I clearly remember you pounding your chest a few years ago stating that redevelopments like the GAR Building would never happen because there was not enough parking. Ha!!! 180

Yeah, probably true.

There's this disconnect here in the region. There's supposedly a want/need for a thriving urban core, yet many of the people promoting this ideal don't seem to understand the "secret sauce" for urbanity. You need organic, market rate, non-auto oriented growth or it doesn't work.

If you want condos with two-car attached garages, and downtown sports stadiums, and expanding convention centers, you can build nonstop from the river to 8 Mile, you're never going to get anything beyond a potemkin village of entertainment uses, and event-specific traffic.