Galapagos Art Space of Brooklyn Will Make Detroit Its Home - NY Times Reports

[Detroitdave]

Perhaps its time to invest in some Highland Park real estate before HP becomes the next Brooklyn!

I've said it before and I'll say it again , Detroit has been on NYC's radar for a while and now the words getting out .
I see it first hand at my job , I literally come in contact with New Yorkers at least about 5 times a month and not just visiting, they are looking for places to live .

[animatedmartian]

I've said it before and I'll say it again , Detroit has been on NYC's radar for a while and now the words getting out .
I see it first hand at my job , I literally come in contact with New Yorkers at least about 5 times a month and not just visiting, they are looking for places to live .

Most out-of-state developers also seem to be from NYC [[by that I mean 2 or 3 out of a dozen). Plus one of the members put on the financial advisory board for Detroit was a guy who dealt with NYC during it's near-bankruptcy [[though that may just more be coincidence because of similar circumstances). Either way, there's seemingly more connections coming from New York than from probably any other major city, especially within the Midwest. These New Yorkers could have easily picked Chicago or some smaller Midwestern city to move to [[which arguably could have been just as cheap with better chances of thriving), but they chose Detroit. There's clearly something unquatifiable that makes Detroit pretty similar to NYC otherwise it's kinda hard to understand why they even bother looking here.

[rjlj]

Who are these out of state New York developers that you speak of?

Most out-of-state developers also seem to be from NYC [[by that I mean 2 or 3 out of a dozen). Plus one of the members put on the financial advisory board for Detroit was a guy who dealt with NYC during it's near-bankruptcy [[though that may just more be coincidence because of similar circumstances). Either way, there's seemingly more connections coming from New York than from probably any other major city, especially within the Midwest. These New Yorkers could have easily picked Chicago or some smaller Midwestern city to move to [[which arguably could have been just as cheap with better chances of thriving), but they chose Detroit. There's clearly something unquatifiable that makes Detroit pretty similar to NYC otherwise it's kinda hard to understand why they even bother looking here.

[animatedmartian]

Who are these out of state New York developers that you speak of?

The buyers of the Old Wayne County Building, the new owners of Southfield Town Center, some office buildings in Livonia, they're certainly poking around the metro.

[dtowncitylover]

I've said it before and I'll say it again , Detroit has been on NYC's radar for a while and now the words getting out .
I see it first hand at my job , I literally come in contact with New Yorkers at least about 5 times a month and not just visiting, they are looking for places to live .

What's funny is how full circle this is coming. Remember, New Yorkers were some of the first inhabitants of the landscape in SE Michigan. Clinton Twp, Troy, Rochester, Utica, Clarkston, Auburn Hills are all testament to this. Now we have a new migration of New Yorkers coming in. And what came after the New York migration? The foreign migration. I'm just saying...