Quote Originally Posted by Bham1982 View Post
You've been on DYes too long. People aren't moving back into the city. The region's core is emptying out as fast as ever.

If there were some hypothetical scenario where people were flocking to 7 Mile and 8 Mile, then obviously the commercial corridors would benefit, but no, I don't think it would be anything like Hall Road, which, while successful, is kind of nightmarish design and not really comparable to an older suburban environment like 8 Mile.
You are not looking the demographics correctly. White folks who are hip cool skinny jeaned, wearing black eyeglasses, carrying satchels, drinking Starbucks Mocha-Cappuccino young professionals are moving back to Detroit, mostly from Gilberttown to Midtown.

Black folks are quickly moving out to the suburbs.

Hall Rd. is the new 8 Mile Rd. filled with 2 shopping malls and miles of big box sprawl-marts. The traffic there gets so congested that it would take you 5 minutes to drive you car across one intersection.