1. Second Whole Foods announced by year-end, this one downtown on Monroe Block development.
2. GM-related holdings sell notable swaths of riverfront land to Gilbert-related holdings in first half of year, cashing in and letting development happen.
3. A plan, at the least, for the Ford Auditorium site and Bates Street [[involving mixed use along Bates) gets hatched and the RFP goes out [[this better happen!).
4. We see construction on multiple Eastern Market sites, introducing newly constructed residences and retail space.
5. Pistons make the playoffs by a hair, Red Wings miss badly, Tigers up to 76 wins, Lions up to 9 wins, Michigan basketball finally takes it all, Michigan football makes the playoff but loses badly to a southern team.
6. Olympia-entities maintain their track record of not building a SINGLE residence in the City of Detroit, and this time, Mayor Duggan starts makes public, if veiled, statements about them, and the City's lawyers begin prosecuting their blight.
7. We look back shockingly fondly on Gov. Snyder's policies toward Detroit [[if not many of the rest of his policies), and Duggan works hard to forge inroads with Whitmer focusing on transit and schools-- but she will have a learning curve and the results will take time.
8. Inflow = outflow for Detroit population, setting stage for better than anticipated 2020 census figures [[which will still have a huge asterisk re reliability due to Trump-Pence policies).