Quote Originally Posted by DetroitPlanner View Post
After all, most of them are there due to property tax breaks and they are eating the resources from the non-centralized neighborhoods.
I'm curious what you mean by this. Yes, many of them are there due to property tax breaks. But how do you arrive at the conclusion that they are eating the resources from the neighborhoods? Isn't it possible that they just require fewer resources from the neighborhoods to begin with? 1,000 cars in a privately-lit, privately-guarded parking garage costs the city almost $0 to keep secure.

Keeping 1,000 cars secure at 7 mile and Kelly requires 10 patrol cars and an on-call SWAT team.

Sure, you can be angry that the midtown parking garage isn't paying property taxes, but they're also not asking a whole lot from the city, either. Kinda of a stretch to conclude that they're "taking" from the neighborhoods.