Two Major Woodward Apartments Abandoned...

[Zacha341]

Could work, in the less crime infiltrated buildings with a semblance of a interested community not fully crime entrenched.

Otherwise you'd have an island "barricaded" business with no one coming to purchase services from you for fear of crime on their person [[like getting out of their car)... And it ain't a great day "working" for said business knowing it's hard to get out for lunch/ having to be walked/ watched to your car.

I work in a situation "somewhat" like this on the east side so I know of what I speak and I was born, reared and educated and live in Detroit, so I'm not being providential, "prissy" or paranoid.

However, I think the buildings closer to WSU, Midtown etc. could be very successful with good planning for specific businesses.

The buildings in Highland Park. Sadly no. Crime is still too high.

I am sure that I will get grief for saying this, but why doesn't the state offer free rent in these places to people who will move there businesses to Detroit? Desperate times call for desperate measures.