Applause for adaptive reuse and repopulating the lower east side. It will be up to them to make it nice enough and in good repair to fill it with paying tenants. But the fact that it is going residential is undoubtedly good.

That fellow voicing a concern about a microapartment trend has just rendered himself a voice not to be trusted, in my book. First, these aren't that tiny. Second, where is this trend? Third, why would you worry about the trend subsuming the market? If and when that somehow occurred, it would be at the market's behest. I don't see, particularly in spacious old Detroit, any likelihood of developers only providing tiny apartments. I am surprised that Crain's even entertained his concern.