How about you come up with a positive idea for once instead of throwing in the towel and assuming that demolition of the Lafayette is inevitable? This is about pride in your city's future, and whether that future consists of the redevelopment of beautiful historic structures, or numerous parcels of downtown land that resemble the rural South.
Of course, every situation and every building project is unique. But to casually dismiss parallels of similar situations in other places because of geography, sunshine, the day of the week, New Coke, or the current NASDAQ average is being willfully ignorant. If you opened your eyes a bit, and tried to understand WHY and HOW other cities have been able to turn around and leave Detroit in the dust, you might just understand what it's going to take to fix Detroit. I think you'd be surprised to find that things weren't exactly a cakewalk anywhere else. At some point, though, someone drew a line in the sand and said, "No more. We're going to do this *better*." The only real difference between Detroit and anywhere else is that Detroit hasn't made that stand yet, and continues to finance its own destruction.
Go get yourself some Rage Against the Machine CDs and get some positive energy flowing.
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