Start by establishing a Council by ward system, so the communities that need the attention get the proper amount of funding and help to begin to be self-sufficient parts of a more productive whole.
Focus on enticing businesses back to the core of the downtown area's while cooperating with the state government to decrease business taxes to encourage growth in new sectors of industry to utilize the city, region, and state's abundance of skilled workers.
This shouldn't be a Detroit only endeavor, but a regional one.
Oh... and transit...
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