Tax what we don't want, not what we want.
1. Announce a five year plan to eliminate city income tax. Not cut, eliminate it. We can't compete with the suburbs if we continue to tax what we want to have [[ie, income for our residents and businesses).

2. Replace the lost revenue with the following taxes [[which could be instituted first to stop the current bleeding);
a) Double the property tax on abandoned, commercial buildings in and around downtown. We need to get rid of the speculators who are doing nothing but letting their buildings rot. There are many people who would buy and upgrade these buildings if they were not overpriced. Higher taxes would encourage building owners to sell their abandoned buildings for less money. If you get a tenant, the tax goes back down.
b) Tax city employees who do not live in the city, at the higher current income tax rate [[including casino workers) [[This would take a change in state legistlation, but can be done).
c) Start a 5 cent per gallon gasoline tax to encourage public transit.
d) Charge a $2 tax for cars to go on Belle Isle, tax by the car, not people.
I could think of many more, but you get the idea. Brainstorm... some might be good ideas and some not, but imo the worst is taxing income when the surrounding areas don't.

3. Announce a five year plan to lure any businesses currently located in the suburbs to move downtown. You have the business connections, find out what it will take for the companies currently located in Warren, Southfield, Troy, etc. to move downtown [[including at least some of channel 2 and 7 broadcasting). Currently, one reason for them to do it is because young talent is attracted to downtowns, not suburbs. I'm sure their number one reason not to is the high taxes.

What things do you want to see Bing accomplish? Please give a detailed start plan.