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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere
exactly. Its 7 miles today, but it was 0 miles 5 years ago.
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This isn't really true. Downtown/Midtown were fine five years ago too. In fact there's little difference between today and five years ago. 10-20 years ago, yeah, but there was no point in Detroit's history where the core was completely dead.
I get the "you gotta start somewhere" reasoning, but it's debatable that anything has started. There is no real metric (population, employment, tax base, etc.) where there's clear signs of even the beginning of a turnaround. The best you can say is that the decline has slowed. Detroit still has the worst or second worst population loss of any city in the U.S., every year.
Detroit is still the only major U.S. city where there is no real option for middle-upper class people seeking a safe, desirable, walkable residential neighborhood. Pittsburgh, Buffalo and to a lesser extent Cleveland, have this. Detroit has a stronger metro area overall, but a weaker city limits. There isn't even one fully intact, walkable neighborhood strip.