Quote Originally Posted by Mackinaw View Post
Correct, Steve.

TTime, just to make sure we're on the same page, you'd say the same about Chicago, right? It's south and west sides resemble Detroit's rough zones, if not with more violence and even starker segregation.

Perception and relativity are everything.
So the two Edmund / John R tangent developments are 500 housing units and Ilitches plan maybe 500 [[rough guess) adjacent to the arena and Comerica, then that would be 1,000 new housing units completed when the first puck is dropped at the new arena, all within say a 1/2 mile radius of say Henry / Woodward.

That's pretty damn impressive for a city some folks were writing an obituary for...