Livernois and McNichols

[emu steve]

One of the debates on this forum was the downtown/Midtown vs. the neighborhoods. Or the 'what about the neighborhoods?' posts. There are a lot of innovative things happenings in the neighborhoods. This neighborhood is by UDM.

Well, the theme of this article is that neighborhoods can come back and they don't need to be adjacent to downtown to do it or get the love and attention to make it happen.

This program sounds kind of like a 'business improvement district' where monies are raised to improve a particular area with things like streetscaping, etc. [[monies separate from the a governmental unit).

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/bus...hols/71484840/

In Detroit, lights are coming on in the neighborhoods. M-1 is coming. New Center appears to be coming back.

We have one thread about Quicken Loans/Home Depot trying help selective neighborhoods get better.

The side lots program thread theme was that some strong neighborhoods can get much better by having a program which turns vacant lots into a +, not a -.

There are no magic bullets to revitalize a city the geographic size of Detroit. It will be done block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood...