Gilbert Renames Dime Building to "Chrysler House"

[313WX]

Hey, 313WX. Sometimes I like to spin these little ideas off in satirical pieces like that. I don't pretend to know anybody here, just a little fun on my part. Anyway, I do think something is happening, things are changing. The region is shrinking, and some people are finding the center again. We'll see how that goes, huh?

Detroit's rapidly losing relevance relative to how fast other regions are growing. I mean, we're about to let relatively low-growth cities such as Seattle and Minneapolis pass us up.

While we're cheering about the move of a whopping 70 people into dime building, I'm betting about as many people just left the city in the past week and a small business employing that many people left the city for the suburbs or somewhere out of state as well.

So we can't sit around fiddling our thumbs too much longer The time we needed to find our center so to speak was 1980. That's why those who realize this have jumped the ship and given up [[including Comerica actually).

[Detroitnerd]

Detroit's rapidly losing relevance relative to how fast other regions are growing. I mean, we're about to let relatively low-growth cities such as Seattle and Minneapolis pass us up.

While we're cheering about the move of a whopping 70 people into dime building, I'm betting about as many people just left the city in the past week and a small business employing that many people left the city for the suburbs or somewhere out of state as well.

So we can't sit around fiddling our thumbs too much longer The time we needed to find our center so to speak was 1980. That's why those who realize this have jumped the ship and given up [[including Comerica actually).

Well, this is a corporate move. Detroit's corporate heads aren't very forward-thinking, generally. By the time they "discover" downtown, it will have been because of all the small business people who are making it happen today.

[313WX]

Detroit's corporate heads aren't very forward-thinking, generally.

Good point.