How Detroit Went From a Booming Metropolis to a Shrinking City

[Hermod]

The problem is that very few of the folk claiming that the city is "on the way up" focus on the center which at this point is just a Potemkin Village

[SyGolden48236]

The problem is that very few of the folk claiming that the city is "on the way up" focus on the center which at this point is just a Potemkin Village

You are correct Hermod. Dan Gilbert's Disneyland on Woodward is the epitome of a Potemkin Village.

Detroit Rises!

https://www.google.com/maps/place/36...!4d-82.9448267

[iheartthed]

The problem is that very few of the folk claiming that the city is "on the way up" focus on the center which at this point is just a Potemkin Village

Incremental improvements are indeed improvements.

[O3H]

Ahhhh I get it. The stick holding up the facade, doesn't have it at just
at the 90 degree square to the street. It' only 79% so we can see its fake.