Quote Originally Posted by masterblaster View Post
This is disappointing because it signals that Corktown won't be a major employment center as originally envisioned by Ford.

Detroit needs jobs, and high-paying ones. That is how we get more residents and tax revenues.

Commercial at that site wouldn't be 'creep' because what existed before at that site was industrial/office. Rosa Parks is not a neighborhood street, so hopefully mixed-use residential/retail will be built there.
Of course pretty much everything built in Detroit is subsidized one way or another, but it's going to be very difficult to finance anything with interest rates where they are. Many projects that seemed feasible in 2020/2021 simply don't make any sense now. At some point in the future [[maybe soon, maybe not) rates will be at least somewhat lower and sites like this will be easier to develop.