If you're not turned on by Detroit's new energy...check your pulse

[Lowell]

Here is a nice puff piece with that title on Detroit revival by Robin Soslow in the Dallas Morning News. Remembering back when most of the outside views of Detroit were almost always negative, this yet another refreshing reversal from those bad old days.

The article gives a quick comprehensive overview and, remarkably!, doesn't mention Slows BBQ which was always a standard mention when the first of such 'Detroit is back' articles began appearing. Are we now in the post-Slows era?

snippet:

Boom and bloom have shattered the Motor City's gloom-and-doom reputation. Super-charged vital signs include a white-hot urban art scene, homegrown jazz, R&B, funk and electronic virtuosos, sensational bargain-priced food, coffee and craft beer, a fresh new riverfront, a greenway where lush foliage competes with street art-splashed concrete slabs, new urban bike and kayak tours, and friendly residents excited to share their cultural riches.

Abandoned buildings are surging back to life. The Aloft hotel opened last year in the David Whitney, a 1915 neo-Renaissance skyscraper with a jaw-dropping atrium. A labyrinth-like brewery now holds Red Bull House of Art's galleries and studios.

Russell Industrial Center, an auto body factory designed by Detroit starchitect Albert Kahn that opened 1925, now holds studios [[Bill Poceta's glassworks, Dana Keaton's fashions), Michigan Hot Glass Workshop and galleries. Catch the Robots and Ray-guns exhibition. [Full article here >>]

[dmike76]

I like that this article mentions the art and music scene instead of just restaurants. I'll take positive press all day long!

[SammyS]

Last weekend, CBS's Sunday program featured Cleveland with a dedicated story noting its renaissance. What's the bet Detroit will soon get equal nationwide attention for the same? I predict 2017 will be the year Detroit is promoted nationally with the loose but inaccurate tie to its 1967 riots marking the beginning of its decline.

Here's a headline.

"After a 50 year coma, Detroit is finally back from the dead"

[preserve]

I never thought it died, it was just in a coma.

[SammyS]

I never thought it died, it was just in a coma.

My mistake. Noticed that after posting. New headline....

"After a 50 year coma, Detroit finally taken off life support"

Nah, not dramatic enough