I personally remember when Dennis Archer promised that Detroit would, once again, be a "world-class" city. Lot's of discussion ensued over the years as to what exactly "world-class" means. However, Detroit never became world-class, except in the arena of abandonment and ruin porn. There we apparently are equaled only by Pompeii and Beirut.

Many times over the years, especially at the end of KK's era, I thought that Detroit had hit bottom and that there really was no where to go but up. But then the bottom falls out like the floors of the cold storage building near Michigan central Station, revealing a deep pit of frozen black water and a never-missed corpse.

What exactly the "bottom" is is the current discussion.