If Detroit were a better city, that intersection would be akin to Yonge and Bloor or State and Chicago. Yes, there would be riff-raff [[literally every city has this problem) but the overwhelming foot traffic would negate such issues. "Eyes on the street" as Jacobs once quipped. Instead, the riff-raff is the foot traffic and thus the problem is emphasized more on them to be the problem and not the fact that Detroit is far from having the critical mass needed to sustain itself. There will always be riff-raff, but a needed injection of at least 50,000 permanent residents along Woodward between Jefferson and the Boulevard would actually bring the needed street life that cities need. I don't see that population bump happening...