Robinson Furniture is cheesy and can't compare to Art Van, Gardner White, Gorman, nor Restoration Hardware. Fred's furniture store on Livernois selling used furniture not new. As usual Detroiters fool themselves into thinking that we have something when we don't. We find ourselves driving to the suburbs to purchase a new bedroom, livingroom, or dining sets for our new homes or to refurbish the homes that we are already occupying. Why doesn't Detroit,with it's growing white collared communities, shut out good furniture stores is questionable. Jefferson should be lined with great quality furniture stores such as Art Van, Gormans, Gardner White; not Riverside Furniture, Robinson, and Fred's. The DEGC and other planning and economic communities had done a mediocre job in development and drawing good quality retail to the city. Dan Gilbert has to understand that some of these furniture stores are looking for space and parking. Most of the potential customer base for these stores will be come from areas such as Sherwood Forest, Indian Village/West Village, Midtown/North End/Boston- Edison, Lafayette Park, as well as the condos and lofts around the downtown midtown area. I would love to see Bright Ideas opening a second store in the downtown area. People say let's support the furniture stores that stayed in Detroit and didn't leave. With the exception to Gardella the reason why the other furniture stores stayed because they had catered to mostly the bad credit low income crowd who wanted new cheesy furniture. I am of lower income but would rather go to Marcia Walker, Estefek, and other estate sales held in Grosse Pointe than to buy some called new furniture from anyplace on Jefferson nor Livernois