Quote Originally Posted by Hermod View Post
I forget the name the "law" was attributed to, but I do remember the quote:

"Nothing is impossible to the man who does not have to do the work."
On the other hand, I'm sure we all remember the multiple threads that proclaimed what a disaster--financial and otherwise--the Book-Cadillac redevelopment would be. How it was stupid, and impossible, and had rotted away for decades, and no one could ever pull together the financing.

Remember that?

Is it something in the water, or is there no institutional memory in Detroit?
Tear down an old building? New development!
Subsidies for stadiums? Spinoff development!
Rehab an old building? Impossible!

Other cities faced similar "impossible" situations...some of those cities are not too far from Detroit. The difference is, they MOVED, while Detroit sat on its ass and made excuses. And like it or not, people are now doing in Detroit what folks like you have long-ago deemed "impossible".