City Center grows, but neighborhoods in rapid decline

[emu steve]

The headline is not about Detroit, but about our midwestern neighbor and lodestone, Chicago.

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/artic...ing10-20161213

From 2000 to 2010, population there is down 200,000.
From 2010 to 2015, most of the areas are flat, the city center gained, and the south side lost a ton of residents.

My point is that I think the trend there, which matches the trend here, is broader than just our city's management. There appears to be an overall trend in that direction. Good thing or bad thing? I don't know. But it's not something particular to Detroit.

This is part of the new urbanization.

There is a movement [[migration) back to the city but it isn't equal to what it was.

In other words, maybe thousands left Brightmoor but thousands move to downtown, Brush Park, etc.

There is both de-population [[Brightmoor) and re-population [[downtown) going on.

Someone may prefer a suburb over Brightmoor, but someone else may prefer downtown over a suburb [[or Brightmoor).

No one should assume that if Detroit gains 25K new residents that they will be distributed equally throughout the city. There are hot neighborhoods which will gain most of the new residents and most other neighborhoods will get few.