Midtown - too much, too little, or the right amount of attention?

[casscorridor]

Heavy investment in Midtown is just what Detroit needs. The city will never turn around if we can't get Midtown thriving with residents and business. We need at least one neighborhood with 15,000+ pop density per sq mile, if not double that. We need at least one neighborhood that can offer the lifestyle that is offered in so many other cities-- a walkable urban lifestyle where everyday amenities are just footsteps away, where there is no reason to go the suburbs when everything is a short trip away and within the city. Where there is diversity of residents and places to call home. When most of metro Detroit is single family homes and strip malls, we need at least one area that offers something different, a scene you would expect to see in NYC or Chi or Philly or SF. We need at least one neighborhood that resembles a "big city," a title Detroit can no longer claim.

If we can get one area, Midtown, looking like a big city we might have a fighting chance of restoring life to the rest of Detroit's disfunctional neighborhoods. It can be a beacon of light to suburbanities and city dwellers alike that Detroit can come back, and better than ever.

[Fnemecek]

Heavy investment in Midtown is just what Detroit needs. The city will never turn around if we can't get Midtown thriving with residents and business. We need at least one neighborhood with 15,000+ pop density per sq mile, if not double that.

15,000+ per square mile?

Damn, we've got a long ways to go then.