Detroitplanner- the calm voice in the storm. The urban planners in the area need to get together and start brainstorming ideas for this coming transformation before developers start getting mutimillion contracts and tax abatements. If the Bing administration sees that Detroit's citizens are willing participants in the plan, but just want more say over what is being developed, we may have an opportunity to create very useful and eyecatching public spaces that we wouldn't have gotten in the past. Other cities are making the most of their available space with grand parks, transit amenities and clearing for the coming tide of redevelopment that is bound to take place once gas prices rise again.

Personally, I just hope the development isn't all duplexes and cheap ass condos, like we've seen for the past 15 years.