Quote Originally Posted by masterblaster View Post
This is greats news for adding jobs to the metro, but seems like a missed opportunity because it creates more job sprawl in the region. That land could have been preserved as a nature preserve, and this plant located in Detroit or Highland Park in the square miles of vacant land of those 2 municipalities. Duggan demolished the State Fairgrounds, this would have been good there. Oh well, much better than nothing.
Agree 100%. The continued sprawl in this region is ridiculous. In another 10 years the area between A2 and Canton will undoubtable be filled in with cul-de-sacs and strip malls.

The Focus: Hope connecting is also kinda laughable if you think about it. They choose to build wayyyy out in the exurbs in a majority middle/upper middle class area, while Focus: Hope is based in the inner city helping majority poor and lower working class people, who live nowhere near where this will be built. How do they expect people in Detroit, HP, Hamtramck, or even inner ring burbs like Warren to get to these great paying jobs?

Well, I'll tell you, they won't.

Keep destroying wetlands and forests to sprawl out further, while cities continue to suffer.