Thank you all for the kind remarks--and even more for the education. As I like to say that 90% of what I know about Detroit I have learned from this forum. Best of all, together we have watched the narrative of Detroit move from ruins to rise.

Just a slight adjustment to the OP's post, this is the 20th year of the forum, while the original Fabulous Ruins of Detroit tour dates to 1997. The outpouring caring emotions and concern about Detroit from the thousands of emails that came in response to that site led me to create this forum in 1999 and in Jan. 2001 to register and begin using the domain name DetroitYES.com and ask, "Detroit. What went wrong? How can we heal it? Where are we going?"