McDonald's moving HQ to Oprah's old Harpo Studios digs [[Chicago story)

[tkelly1986]

Even if that's true, which I don't exactly agree, then it would mean a strong downtown is vital for suburbs...

Bingo! And this is what L. Brooks Patterson has never understood. What metro Detroit lacks is the draw/magnet that brings people to the area in the first place. If they move out to the burbs once they have kids, fine. But just get people to Detroit and let things progress as they do in other, functional regions.

[Towne Cluber]

Bingo! And this is what L. Brooks Patterson has never understood. What metro Detroit lacks is the draw/magnet that brings people to the area in the first place. If they move out to the burbs once they have kids, fine. But just get people to Detroit and let things progress as they do in other, functional regions.

It's also what many Detroit leaders never understood. To have things progress as they do in other functional regions would have required a certain level of loss of control for various Detroit political, religious, social, etc. figures. Or perhaps they understood all too well...