Gilbert Announces $500M Revitalization Effort for Detroit Neighborhoods

[ABetterDetroit]

Dan Gilbert is a brilliant guy. However, his comment that property taxes caused the majority of blight in Detroit was not a brilliant comment.

I respectfully disagree.

I think that having a “brilliant” business man who clearly assembles highly qualified individuals from the private sector to analyze what the economic problems are in the Detroit neighborhoods with the goal of creating growth and capital investment in the city is exactly what was desperately needed here. It should not be ignored that Mr. Gilbert most definitely has a dog in that fight.

We have no shortage of dumb assed politicians who do nothing but pander votes with ancient rhetoric and finger pointing who could care less about making this state economically competitive and stopping the hemorrhage of people and wealth. That crap has been going on for far too long around here leaving only failure in its wake.