Quote Originally Posted by Novine View Post
If it's such a great idea for Detroit, let's make the entire state a tax-free zone! If it's good for Detroit, it should be great for Michigan!
Well, that's where development planning should come into play. Do we want businesses coming in and plopping down in any random part of the state, or do we want to direct them to certain areas?

For me to support the idea, I wouldn't even want them to designate the entire city as a no-tax zone. Instead concentrate on areas like the downtown and midtown business districts -- like NYC did Times Square -- or brownfields in the industrial sections of the city to encourage redevelopment. I'm not aware of the specifics about the Renaissance Zone, but I don't think it was a completely tax-free zone. And even still, didn't it work to bring Compuware downtown? And keep GM from going to the suburbs?