Whats Happening to Detroit?
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2022
- The story of present day Detroit.
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As someone who's lived downtown for a few years, I can say that the downtown scene is vastly different than how most of the world perceives it.
good or bad?
@@coolpiraterapstar good, its a very nice downtown.
@@coolpiraterapstar good lol I hate outta towners
Hopefully it’s not like Baltimore where it’s light or presidents street then they dip
Downtown is very clean and relatively safe. The only thing i would criticize about it is that its empty. Many times when i have visited Detroit im amazed how little people i see. I went to the last Blackhawks Red WIngs game at the Joe and my brother and I hit the bars afterwards and everything was at 15% capacity. People come for events in the city and immediately drive back to the suburbs.
I left Detroit 30 years ago and I have moved back in March 2022. I am impressed how much the city declined and how much it has risen. The downtown area is amazing. Shops, restaurants, new businesses, shiny bldgs. However, as you leave the downtown and midtown area, poverty is noticeable. Detroit is slowly coming up. Give it another 20 years+
Awesome! Way to move back. I wanna do that one day as well. I was raised in Oakland county. My dad was born and raised in Detroit and my mom in Dearborn heights. I would go downtown for wings games a lot. Good memories of that. I lived in Michigan back in 2015 most recently and noticed a big difference even then in downtown than back in the 90s early 2000s. There was a spark of life. Can't wait for Detroit to post a population gain. It's so close!
And thats the problem. 20+ years? Pfft. You'll easily lose more by then.
Of course for it to be as good as it used to, yes but waiting that late is of no interest for most people. Too long.
@@AustinRides7264 , what a lot of people don’t seem to realize when they talk about Detroit losing population is that many of the poor bad neighborhoods have gotten worse and people have basically abondone them, leaving empty fields, and moved across into the suburbs, however the downtown and midtown areas have become appreciably better and more dense than they’ve ever been. Detroit is a huge city geographically, it’s been said that you could fit the cities of San Francisco, Boston, and Pittsburgh in its geographical borders. So basically it’s a restructuring. Hopefully some of those poor neighborhoods will start to be restored in years to come but that will, as mentioned, take a while. Meanwhile, the downtown midtown areas are really wonderful places to live and work. What an enormous change from the past 35 years.
@@manbtm1 yeah it's something like 143 square miles. Maybe more. So much land! I love that ford is making the MCS a new hub for their workers. Now if only ford would sell the lions 😏😆
I love the D and always will. It's coming back. With global warming and natural disasters on the rise I think more people will migrate inland to places like Detroit which are hidden gems
@@manbtm1 that scale is the biggest cause of the city’s demise. Inner areas subsidise outer areas even though it gutted them decades ago.
I live in the metro Detroit area. Detroit is looking way better than what it use to be. I’m considering moving within the city.
Looking!? Forget how it looks. What about the people!??
@@Msangel06 this is how I know you haven't been to the city. And with a statement like that....it shows!
If you move to Detroit, my advice would be to move to either downtown or along the streetcar on Woodward Avenue. That is where most of the improvement has taken place.
This guy in the video is making up lies. I hate when armchair dummies who know nothing about the city talk in matter of fact tones.
I enjoyed my visit before covid for Youmacon, Detroit partly had it's decline due to car dependency that many others places will start to feel soon.
I was there two weeks ago for the autoshow and had 12 hours there by myself. Honestly had a really fun time. Great food, nice people, pretty scenery. You can really tell that they're trying to revitalize the city and I think they're doing a good job at it. I can't wait to see what the city will be like in a decade or so!
Looks like the Downtown is the majority white area as of 2010 census. Is that the same? If only the whites benefit, isn't that just more shit? Whites left the city to die because of too many black people. Now they come back to play white saviour. Not surprised.
I am an electrician who has been working downtown on a lot of Dan Gilberts projects over the last few years and has got to see inside and out some of his new building renovations. What he has done and is doing for the city is amazing. I nearly always feel safe downtown, the food is good, people are mostly friendly and there is plenty to do.
That's great to hear, coming from someone actually taking part in the project!
If I were a young, single guy I would move to Detroit in a nanosecond. The city has more potential than any city in the country. Overbuilt infrastructure for its size, tons of beautiful historic buildings begging for rejuvenation. Multiple world-class universities on its doorstep. Just across a bridge from Canada. It has so much to offer.
In 2022 Detroit is the comeback city and it's River Walk has been named the nation's finest 2 years in a row. The last 10 years have been amazing here and as longtime Detroiters, we are gladly watching it happen!
In 2022, Detroit or Downtown Detroit is just as exciting and vibrant as any other American city.
fuck out of here 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I've been in Midtown since 2017ish and even in these 5 years, it's crazy how much change the city has undergone. I would add the areas of Corktown and New Center to the up and coming list though. Corktown is thriving with hotels, apartments, and new restaurants being built or finished and New Center is showing signs of a bounce as well. Living here can still be a challenge at times, but with grocery stores beginning to return and a light rail to downtown, Detroit's future looks much brighter than it has for a long time.
A few more: Brush Park is a completely different place from ten years ago and I'm amazed to see how much investment there has been in the villages on the east side.
Looks like the Downtown is the majority white area as of 2010 census. Is that the same? If only the whites benefit, isn't that just more shit? Whites left the city to die because of too many black people. Now they come back to play white saviour. Not surprised.
@@pocklecod North End is getting investment too. Don’t forget about the new Greenway across the city or Ralph C Wilson Riverfront park. And the city has cleaned up SO MUCH blight.
I predict Detroit will be the #1 destination for climate refugees soon enough. Nobody wants to go through an Ian level event every year and with the cheapest urban land in the USA? It could be a good place for many to start over again...
I can tell you from living here Detroit looks 10x better than it did 10 years ago and has insane momentum right now that I haven’t seen in my lifetime. Lots of young people moving downtown along with continued investment. Hopefully the D can keep it going!
Looks like the Downtown is the majority white area as of 2010 census. Is that the same? If only the whites benefit, isn't that just more shit? Whites left the city to die because of too many black people. Now they come back to play white saviour. Not surprised.
Thats sad. Detroit was supposed to be as heavily infrastructured like Philadelphia. One thing i love about Philly is that our city has so many neighborhoods and different architecture houses and looks. Baltimore and Detroit need to upgrade heavily.
Detroit has that. loads of that. Tons of great neighborhoods that have also seen development. This guy saying it's just "two areas" is a total lie.
Hey honey, Philly murder capitol
Right drive down any major street heading out of downtown and see plenty of new construction and rehabs going on, tuff to make these videos from behind a computer screen.
I've heard that Detroit has very high property taxes which will discourage the construction of middle class housing
@@timothykeith1367 Both high property taxes and all your insurances will be at least double what they would be if you lived in the suburbs.
I wasn’t around for the fall, but I’ve seen my city at its worst, and I can say it is absolutely with out a doubt a much nicer place to be, a place people actually want to spend time or live! The energy in downtown and the surrounding neighborhoods is definitely there!
I have lived in Downtown Detroit ( Lafayette Park) for over 20 years. I really love it,, so much to do, great neighbors, pro sports, great restaurants, great theater/ arts/ museum scene, wonderful bike/ walking/ running pathways, awesome riverfront, great residences, Canada 5 minutes away, its the best its ever been…I walk to everything. Cant see ever living anywhere else in Metro Detroit.
As someone who lived there for 5 years, it’s definitely not just two areas. Brush Park, Corktown, New Center and Palmer Park all have had money going into it. Corktown and Brush Park seriously did a 180 when during my time there. Midtown and Downtown got the most attention in the 2010s but it’s definitely spreading to adjacent neighborhoods as there’s new plans for Woodbridge too.
The villages are hugely improved as well. Rivertown always held up decently but now it's even better. Many places really coming along.
I could only imagine if crime goes down enough to where the houses become a bargain given the skyrocketing home prices in southern and western us cities is only starting to slow down
They already are a bargain in Detroit, at least in large swaths of the metro. There are literally houses for dollars, the problem being the crime, poverty, and overall abandonment of the entire neighborhood around it (not to mention the conditions of the houses themselves)
I agree, when people get sick of the expensive Sun Belt and Western areas the next wave of migration will be back to the rust belt. Detroit real estate will be worth way more 20 years from now.
you buy before that happens if you want a bargain
Yea, pretty soon you'll get Californians that are jumping out of Texas because THEY jacked the cost of living up by moving here.
People pay $700,000 for an 800-square-foot roach motel in Austin. The weather sucks seven months out of the year. Traffic sucks, the people are rude, and city parks are basically just dust-covered rocks. I visit my sister in the Detroit suburbs and always marvel at how nice it is.
the photo used at the 1:38 mark is old. if you take the same photo today it's a brand new bustling neighborhood.
That’s true, hundreds of new units and serval new businesses in those few blocks
Most of the images in this video are old.
Brush Park? Detroit's entire new neighborhood! We have been watching the development since, well, since this photo was taken! LOL
The most interesting thing here is that if detroit can successfully fix itself there's likely going to be a large south to north population shift when the colorado starts drying up and the sun belt turns to the its too damn hot belt
Yeah, in the next hundred years or so...
not even that long we got about 5 or 10 till it starts
the one thing cities in the Rust Belt should capitalize on: gambling. they'd be able to attract at least Nevada and Arizona folk up north, at least the ones who live off of gambling and entertainment
@@Rembd have you seen the west's water crisis? Or how the gulf coast cant stop getting decimated by hurricanes. People are going to start leaving
@@djtrankilo231 Detroit actually has three large casinos right within the greater downtown area.
Detroit IS coming back and alot of people are investing in the city as well. Believe me when I say that as I'm a real estate agent serving Metro Detroit.
The downtown area and Midtown is looking great and investors are picking up in the neighborhoods!
There are actually alot of hidden gems throughout the neighborhoods, East AND West!
I currently live on the outskirts of Detroit, but I'm definitely reconsidering moving back. The only thing that really setting me back is the high car insurance rates. 🤷🏾♀️
I've thought about moving to Detroit. I grew up in Oak Park. I currently own a home in Kansas City. I get a good feeling when I come back to visit family and friends. I love the music scene. So much great music all over. My credit isn't that good. So I'm going to work on that for the next few years.
You can clearly tell this person hasn’t spent any significant time in Detroit in recent years. The recent development has been significant and it has been night and day difference from 2010.
I have actually, in fact there are 2 videos on this channel of me there to prove it, and based on my observations of going there several times in the last 7 years I stand by my opinion.
All the naysayers will be silenced as Detroit’s turnaround continues. There is much to be done but there are great plans and millions yet to be invested. The decline didn’t happen overnight so the turnaround won’t happen overnight either. The media needs to stop harping on Detroit and look at other cities that actually are worse off. But it’s always been in vogue to bash Detroit. There is too much history, great architecture and tough, spirited people that will see the transformation through. I am not a Detroiter but I love that city.
Thanks for that! Detroit is the comeback city!
Detroit is a hellhole. I know Detroit cops and Wayne county sheriffs. Enjoy your window dressing but the city is a mess.
Looks like the Downtown is the majority white area as of 2010 census. Is that the same? If only the whites benefit, isn't that just more shit? Whites left the city to die because of too many black people. Now they come back to play white saviour. Not surprised.
Detroit has a city income tax for both workers in the city and residents of the city who work elsewhere. Any business that tries to move from the suburbs into the city usually faces severe backlash from the employees who don't want to lose a percentage of their income for the "benefit" of working in the city....
white people who work in the city need to pay taxes
Not to mention the insanely high property taxes and auto insurance costs
@@chad7525 this is true but it is usually negated by lower housing costs and lower taxable value than in neighboring suburbs with lower tax rates. The auto insurance scenario is greatly improved but it also impacts the whole SE metro, not just Detroit.
The forgotten thing is that even in 2020, the City of Detroit was still more densely populated than every single one of the 40 cities in Texas with populations above 100,000. It only seems abandoned compared to the days when people were packed in like sardines.
Detroit and Atlanta both are about 140 square miles, but even with 2/3 population loss in Detroit, it is still more populated than Atlanta. And in Metro Atlanta far flung areas like Forsythe and Cherokee counties are the most rapidly growing. Atlanta is trying to bring people into the old city but the people hate the traffic of Atlanta because the major interstate highways cut right through the heart of the city causing delays in commuting. Detroit freeways also cut into old neighborhoods and probably accelerated the blight but the grid layout of Detroit would wonderfully adapt to efficient mass transit much better than what Atlanta has. You really can't get lost in Detroit because of how easy it is to use the street system.
Here in Atlanta a trip across town, is effectively an all day trip. Much more sprawled than Detroit. Its only going to get worse in the future. Many think EVs are the solution, but being stuck in traffic for an hour in an EV is no improvement.
Texas sucks. I am in a master-planned community that is very desirable. They didn't even consider the possibility that someone would want to walk anywhere. You have to get in your car to do anything. In a neighborhood that is 100% commuters, there is no gas station! It is ugly, boring, and miserable to live here.
Problem with Detroit:
1. Income tax (Michigan as a whole) needs to be eliminated.
2. Freeways breaking up a walkable street grid.
3. Lack of investment in public transportation/ light rail service
4. Poor city planning/ zoning factories in the middle of residential neighborhoods Metro airport is Miles away with no connectivity to city core.
5. Political grid lock on making Detroit a modern day functioning city.
Detroit proper is the poster child for the impact of white flight. When desegregation happened, white families moved to the suburbs, taking their tax base with them. Except they continued to commute into the city for work. The city had all of the costs of maintaining infrastructure of a much larger city, but none of the taxes to support it. The lack of funding also hit the schools, which are the primary driver for housing prices. It became a vicious circle. Millennials want to be in the city core, not the sleepy suburbs, so they are the key to revitalizing cities like Detroit.
@@texaswunderkind very true but Michigan as a whole needs to abandon the state income tax and local income tax system until the state as a whole and municipalities follow after the state and Detroit will continue to loose population thus loosing business and a vital tax base look at the states that are thriving today they have no income tax and the city’s have adequate if not great public transportation fully funded off sales tax and property taxes.
Correct
Just finished a solo travel vlog to Detroit and I gotta say I was impressed 😎
Land mass of Detroit is huge. I have read you could fit 3 San Franciscos within its borders. In some ways,like financial, that makes it difficult to manage within the budget. Perhaps, shrinking that size would be one way to streamline & quicken the wonderful progress being made. At present, Detroit is America's hidden gem. Most folks would be amazed to see a vibrant downtown, a beautiful waterfront, a generally clean urban core.
Actually tearing half the city down was a proposal once by one of the mayors.
@@forgottenplaces9780 ...yes, I remember during bankruptcy proceedings that idea was floated. Of course it was shortly torpedoed by the city " fathers". I thought then, and I think now, it should have taken place as part of the conditions of bankruptcy.
@@shirleybalinski4535 like the us hasn't already bulldozed enough of poor peoples homes
Detroit is America's hidden gem! We see the improvements citywide today and most media accounts emphasize the past. Detroit's building boom has 2 big issues: labor and materials shortages!
@@shirleybalinski4535 you can fit the entire city of San Francisco in Detroit's vacant land these days. Over 70000 blighted structures have been demolished since 2013
I'd put downtown Detroit up against a lot of downtowns across the country in terms of entertainment and dining ECT, of course NYC and Chicago have Detroit beat but it's pretty nice and fun. The plan in Detroit was to build up the downtown and midtown and then go into the neighborhoods and rebuild. I really enjoy your videos and keep up the great work.
Detroit was one of only 5 U.S. cities to make Time Magazine's Best Places on Earth list. On par with cities like Miami FL, and Park City UT. Voted best river walk in the country.
You also probably believed most of the stuff that Dr. Goebbels put out.
@@ednorton47 does it feel good being an ass to people online?
@2:58 companies coming downtown is more than just "local movement". The economic impact is great. Remote work may diminish the foot traffic that help local businesses thrive but it's still there. One of the most underrated and under reported issues is the amount of speculation the recession brought to the city. There's a lot more people that can afford a home now but the inventory is tight. When we had the great recession domestic and foreign groups bought up entire blocks of the city. Some of these areas improved but many of them are left in the same condition or worse. So locals can't afford the cost of purchase AND renovation even if these groups were to sell. This blight stifled the progress of several neighborhood's turnarounds. So now when many people might actually consider moving back to the city, the opportunity isn't their or the opportunity cost is too high and they end up getting more bang for their buck in the suburbs. If more people would be able to afford the city or if the city did more to make long term ownership affordable but incentivized and attractive the city would get the real turn around it needs.
We visited a few years ago and were impressed by everything happening there. Yes, much of the good news is in a few areas but that's the only way Detroit will recover. It took a long time to get into the whole and it will take awhile to get out of it. You start somewhere and build from there. Sorry Danny Downer doesn't see that.
I'm 67 guy retired on SSI, maybe Detroit could be a good place to buy on my small SSI income
Toledo also
Detroit: Can we have a time machine?
Detroit hasn't had a Republican mayor since 1962, the people that live in Detroit clearly don't care what happens to Detroit.
Can’t have shit in Detroit
@@Mxtthew24 At least your not San Francisco
To stop blacks from moving into the city? 😂😂
@@naverich4603 No. To go back and not rely as much on the auto industry
another great video!!!
This video isn't great at all though. It's full of false information and awful takes.
@@ezioaugustus2621 like what? Any examples?
My family of three are visiting there in January 2023 for the tourism purpose from Taiwan and hope we could have a great time there.
very cold in January. Would only visit cities like Detroit, New York, Chicago, Philly, and D.C. in the summer. New York is an exception though. My body can't handle cold temperatures anymore.
Well, I live in the suburbs of Detroit... born & raised in detroit. Yes the city has declined but I'm loving what I see now. I currently work in detroit, and do business with several organizations in the city. I will most definitely be buying commercial real estates in the Downtown area when the opportunity present itself.
They should really invest in the techno scene TBH. it’s a huge asset that the city doesn’t even recognize, even though it’s what detroit is known for by a lot of people
i AM NOT A NORTH aMERICAN BUT i LOVE THIS CITY. i FOLLOW THE FIGHT THAT THEY PUT UP TO BECOME GREAT AGAIN. NEVER GIVE UP , AND DETROIT WILL CERTAINLY SUCCEED. ON MY WAT TO TORONTO I SHALL CERTAINLY VISIT DETROIT
I was proud of Detroit for not descending into chaos like other cities in 2020
I was just there a few days ago. Detroit is definitely back on the right track.
This city is booming now. Thriving again finally. It was seriously the silicone valley of the world and now it's returning to that too. Also it didn't get a bailout. It was a loan unlike wall street. Wall street got a bailout
Once you hit rock bottom, the only way left to go is up. Detroit can rise again, so long as her citizens desire it and take whatever actions are necessary to facilitate that rise. I, for one, do not believe in the city of Detroit...but I do believe in the people of Detroit. They're capable of so much, the potential is there, all that's left is to form a plan and act on it.
Who knows? Maybe in ten years from now, we'll all be wishing we lived in Detroit, Michigan.
The main thing I’ve noticed when visiting Detroit (and dating someone who was originally from the Detroit area) is the passion those from, and who are still in the city, have for Detroit. There’s no where that I’ve ever been that’s more proud of their heritage, and trying harder to make their communities better then those is Detroit, and Michiganers in general. Hats off to y’all.
Why would the opening of Gordy Howe bridge, routing truck traffic further outside of the city center, affect downtown? Trucks from Canada already aren't routed through downtown, and there's no reason for trucks to be there anyway.
Because its not just for trucks, its for anyone…
One major gripe, I don't really see how the Gordie Howe Bridge would mean fewer people visiting downtown. Its main purpose is to relieve traffic from the Ambassador Bridge, which already bypasses downtown.
Ambassador is much closer to downtown than howe will be though. That is just a theory for now but I do know that much of the traffic will choose the new bridge over the tunnel and ambassador just bc it will be further south and much better to handle traffic.
The cross-border traffic downtown is the tunnel, which is automobile only. The Ambassador Bridge is mostly through-truck traffic, which the Howe bridge will be too. Two very different kinds of traffic.
@@mikeynth7919 but the howe bridge will be open to all not just trucks
The Gordie Howe bridge will have direct access ramps to all freeways and most traffic will probably not even see Detroit!
Saben como estan las zonas de Bethune Community y Harmony Village ? Se valorizaron las casas alli ?
The car industry is the biggest thing that happened in Detroit and Motown
I'm having fun here in Metro Detroit
Metro Detroit is awesome. I grew up a little outside novi and loved it. Detroit is coming back. The metro has always been nice.
Detroit is doomed. There’s basically nothing that can be done to save it at this point. Cars destroy the urban fabric that is vital to a city, and Detroit is a city built around the car. It doomed itself by being so car-centric.
This is most American cities, to be honest.
Summer 2022: hollowed out at the core. Time will tell
You could say the same about St. Louis sadly
Agree. In my opinion though, Detroit and St. Louis are slowly heading in the right direction.
@@cmcdnc9561 how is St. Louis slowly going in the right direction?
Looks like the Downtown is the majority white area as of 2010 census. Is that the same? If only the whites benefit, isn't that just more shit? Whites left the city to die because of too many black people. Now they come back to play white saviour. Not surprised.
White people did the same shit in STL. I figure that the morality of people who's grandparents wore slave-skin shoes is almost certainly just as twisted.
I've lived in Metro-Detroit and have been going to the City almost my whole life. I went to College in Detroit in the 2000's. It's SO much better than it was then and especially how it was in the 80's 90's. Having lived in Chicago and Boston for several years, what Detroit would really benefit from is a public transit system that people can take from the outskirts, but the auto industry wants people to drive everywhere. (Motor City) And the uptight wealthy neighborhoods think that unsavory characters will infiltrate Birmingham and Grosse Pointe. It's a shame because it would stimulate the Detroit economy greatly. I still go all over Detroit not just Downtown and Mid. Most suburbanites are reluctant stray from Comerica or the Casino areas, because they think it's unsafe, but that's where the cool shit is. I was looking to move there in 2020, but taxes are way too high. Roughly 6k a year per 100k house price. Anyway visit and get out of downtown. I'd say there are restaurants on par or better than Chicago's awesome food scene.
Looks like the Downtown is the majority white area as of 2010 census. Is that the same? If only the whites benefit, isn't that just more shit? Whites left the city to die because of too many black people. Now they come back to play white saviour. Not surprised.
Like other cities Detroit is having to reinvent itself.houston had to move away from being so tied to the petrochemical center so Detroit has to move away from the auto sector. Both cities were boom towns in the 20 the century.
Always wanted to go there. Has a great history. How is that old train station going?
I believe they've just finished it, or are about to
Detroit, Baltimore, Philly were all once famous but now the cities are not known for much. People, investment, and good urban planning are important factors for starters.
Those cities also have something else in common.
You gotta lose your mind in Detroit Rock City! Get Up!
Detroit is a perfect example of America. Maybe it is not like your city or town now but I guarantee you it will be just like it in 20 years.
Good video, but good cities go beyond just population growth and how many big companies move in. More streets have been reclaimed for walkability, with a vast amount of people deeply involved in the city of Detroit, who genuinely want to see it get better, and aren't concerned so much with property values. For an American city at this scale, most things get bogged down in legislation and ulterior motives. In Detroit, projects get built with relative ease. The most important thing of all, most of these projects are scaled to the human level.
Detroit may never see the population it once had, or the vast tracts of single family housing. It's traded get rich quick schemes with slow but resilient and tangible growth, by starting from down town and working slowly into neighborhoods. It defies our American idea of what healthy cities look like, and in the coming decades will no doubt be a model for the rest of the country.
Why not offer new migrants free or cheap land a bit like they used to offer the settlers in the west back in the day?
Kind of. 2 of the 3 Detroit automakers needed new financing for future products at the same time as banks weren't willing to lend them any money. Ford had some foresight and borrowed just before the 2008 crash.
And now ford is face in f bankruptcy and laying off thousands
Having worked in Baltimore for many years , I have visited Detroit to attend the Autoshows and have driven around the area. Detroit has a large land mass and people live in mostly single homes , not row homes such as Baltimore.. so people are spread out !! The downtown area seemed very safe and nice.. along the beautiful Detroit river. The highway systems are great , many freeways that weren't jammed up .. unlike Baltimore and Washington DC area.
Eastern Market never blinked
Mid town and downtown has improved so much but until the neighborhoods improve the city hasn’t fully came back we see construction on some parts of the city but it’s a lot abandoned houses and blocks with no houses on streets I like where the city is going but they have to move in the neighborhoods to improve them I hope it happens
The Cavs owner brought that city back a little bit.
Dan Gilbert* has brought the city back a lot*.
Majorly, he is a Metro Detroit resident ( Bloomfield Hills), Dan Gilbert, major Detroit booster….His companies have invested over 10 Billion in downtown and midtown Detroit.
I feel like it would be a lot better if the sports teams worked hard and brought the playoffs to the city that would ceterinly bring a lot of people especially with the Red Wings having some difficult time getting to the playoffs
Give me a break. Since 2000 The red wings won 2championships tigers went to 2 World Series . There was a superbowl , mlb all star game and a final 4.
None of these things resulted in a sustainable economic boost for the city.
Sports are not going to fix the city.
I saw how the homeless were forced into jails
It is still a city from another century.
Urbanization is too old, and those highways constrain the downtown to a handful of buildings.
Makes no sense at al,l especially because they have the opportunity to develop better urbanization, putting down that old infrastructure and replacing it with a better zoning law for mixed uses and public transport.
Biggest thing that Detroit, and the state of Michigan as a whole, needs to do is retain young people. To many students (high school and university) leave for other states upon graduation. Auto industry is to mature and corporate.
The decline was economic by nature. Lack of diversified activities.
After the war, the auto industry realized they needed to retool Immediately. They haven't developed a new car in years because of the depression and then the war. New types factories were needed and space in the city for those giants was not available inside the city anymore. Everything packed up and moved up north.
I’m from Chicago I visit Detroit every other month and I love the city, culture and downtown! It is amazing. Let’s be honest, racial tension and segregation in the Midwest is the prime reason why population has decline. Gentrification of course is trying to make a mark on Detroit, the city at one point was over 80% black
The Detroit fractal brought me here
Doesn’t help that 40% of downtown is a surface parking lot…
They Need To Help The Young People More In The City Of Detroit.
The reason is all the same, as in all our major cities....
OH and you seemed to neglect that Huntington just built a sky scraper, there is another high rise going up on the edge of downtown, and of course The Hudson which is going up on Woodward and will be Detroit's newest and tallest sky scraper. Also the Howe Bridge is NOT going to deter international crossing, because the current bridge is NOT downtown and not easily accessed to downtown. The bridge traffic is to accommodate the international shipping/ trucking better and the current bridge and tunnel can continue to serve people crossing better without the significant delays. If anything, the new bridge will improve crossing and add more people going between the two countries. This was honestly one of the most out of touch pessimistic uninformed vids I have ever watched.
They should knock half the city down and turn it into a large lightly maintained public park .. will save them a ton in city upkeep cost
Detroit had many beautiful historic buildings that were left to decay and torn down, sad.
Not sure if you have been lately? Many, many have been restored/ renovated in Downtown and Midtown..Fords reno / headquarters of The Michigan Terminal for EV technology in Corktown will be amazing, Supposed to be ready in 2023, incredible building…..2 billion reno job and 5000 employees in it.
I ❤ Detroit!
What?! Detroit has been better than ever. You cannot even afforded to live in downtown. Stop these false mislead click baits.
they opened a gucci store about a month or so ago
It is actually not likely that Detroit is continuing to lose population. The city recently sued the census bureau stating that it actually gained population in 2021. Our utilities company added approximately 7,500 homes in 2021, DWSD added approximately 6,000 homes, and the post office was now delivering mail to 4,400 more homes.
Seems very likely that the census did, in fact, undercount Detroit especially when taking into consideration that the census regularly undercounts black Americans.
Yes but the census is based on 10 years of data not just 1
@@forgottenplaces9780 yes, but the lawsuit in question relates to the formula the census bureau uses for annual estimates. Detroit isn't arguing the 2020 actual census data, but the annual estimates.
Population most certainly did decline between 2010 and 2020, but the trend seems to be reversing.
Edit: they are arguing the census count as well, but that isn't what I was referring to.
Bulldozers, and demolition is what this city needs to level abandon buildings!!! Please!
We're bringing the city back it's a slow process but we're bringing it back
Detroit is going upwards compared to where it is back in the 90s.
So basically Detroit is Gotham but without Batman and Wayn Enterprises
Yeah, I've lived near Detroit for most of my entire life and yeah alot of things have gotten better, like destroying crack houses, bringing the Pistons back..etc. On another note, it's too bad they covered up that awesome whale painting behind Comerica Park
Detroit is practically another Baltimore. Both cities have been faced with the same or similar set of economic and social setbacks.
Do Chicago next
I hate cold places, nothing against detroit or Minnesota but i will never moved to any of those places. They do have very nice summer though especially chicago.
Sad
Cities in the rust belt will probably see better days in the next decades. With global warming more southern states climate will worsen causing populations to move more north in places nicer, like near the great lakes.
Until then, new factories are being built in the freaking desert!
Lots of factories are being built in the rust belt too. It’s still the manufacturing center of the western hemisphere. After the decline of the the 60s through 00s, there is still a lot of industry left and even more coming back.
Do a video like this for Chicago plz.
What’s going on in Detroit?
Not what this dude says in his video that's for sure. There is not a single vacant skyscraper downtown. He totally made that up.
Yeah these UA-camrs just google some shit knowing they’ve never been there. Using outdated pictures and info. If you make videos saying what’s going on there maybe you’d think to go there 😂
Can change the buildings but cant change the people...
Hmm , is it just me that loyal to detroit , not even move out
We all know... but can't say it.
Nah, it can all be summed up to 1 word.
What’s up
Nothing a neutron bomb can’t solve
A real turnaround is not possible until you get rid of most of the people that live there. The population will have to fall by another 300,000 plus.
How are the Detroit Lions doing?
Detroit is doing the right thing focusing on its downtown. It has received some recent criticism for focusing development dollars there instead of its impoverished areas, but the fact of the matter is money is short, and the downtown is by and far its most economically productive area. It won't be able to afford education, electricity, water, and other city services without first growing its tax base.
yea do that but the education, electricity, is poor so that when the newcomers who have moved in end up moving right back out when they have families. Hmm