A brilliant business guy? No question about it, none at all. Revitalization of the business district...I'm not gonna argue against it...too many pros. He's created a cool city, conducive to a procurement of the first job/college educated/cheap labor/high turnover demographic that's the bread and butter of his work force...ensuring a long term, robust bottom line.
I'm not one to argue with a great business model.

It makes me want to spit...to think of Gilbert calling out from some moral pedestal, 3 women back in 2014 for spray painting his precious "alley"...taking to social media and labeling them "degenerates", posting photos and offering a reward for their apprehension. While we had last month, in midtown, multiple women abducted and raped, who lived in a comfort zone Gilbert's economic universe helped create...yet not a peep from Detroit's second coming.