[DetroitSky]

I'd love to see Warren be successful, however I feel this development is not going to lead to much success. This plan has been floated around several times in the past decade, each time talking about density, urbanity and walkability, yet they allowed a Cadillac dealership, surrounded by an ocean of parked cars for sale, be built in the last year just out of view in the rendering to the left.

Downtowns aren't really something you can masterplan like this. You can't just pick a site, build 10 old fashioned looking and cheaply made buildings on some empty lots and call it a downtown. It lacks authenticity. No one is going to say "lets go to downtown Warren!". They're going to stick with Detroit, Royal Oak, Ferndale, Birmingham, etc. like they always have.

It just seems so generic, so poorly thought out. I'll believe Warren can have a modern-built downtown when I see it. Until then, this seems like a joke.