'Downtown Detroit is booming.' Major construction projects breathing new life into city
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- Downtown Detroit is undergoing a major transformation thanks to a boom in construction projects. In fact, the city center is set to have one of the busiest years as it creates more jobs and recreational opportunities.
Detroit has lost a lot of beautiful buildings. It would be great if they could recreate that architecture. I'm sure it'll be a bunch of soulless glass buildings. Thank goodness they are trying to save some of the buildings.
It hasn’t really lost that many though. I would argue is one of the best preserved “pre-war” cities in the country.
The vast majority of the city has historic charm, thats rare among American cities.
Looking Good Detroit. Good Video. Detroit has come a long way. Rebuilding the city and the neighborhoods.
The parts of Detroit that need to be rebuilt the most are the Black neighbourhoods
@@FreezeDollar I agree.
@Edward Russell If black men never abandoned their sons and daughters in all 50 states after the Jim Crow laws ended, then they'll be low crime rates, less gun violence, and less murder rates in all 50 states.
it is good to see white people come back to Detroit. it wasn't the same without them
@@PeaceToAll-sl1db wasn’t the same without them 🤣🤣🤣
Great job Detroit. Keep up the good work.
Detroit still has a very long way to go. I'm from the Netherlands and I was really surprised to read that downtown Detroit has far less people living there then the downtown of my hometown of Groningen, which has just 230,000 inhabitants overall. But its downtown has about the same amount of annual visitors(!). But looking at Google Earth I can understand why. Downtown Detroit looks very uninviting with wide streets and immens empty parking lots. Downtown Detroit should loose those and replace them with mid rise buildings with shops.
If you look up Detroit on ParkingReform it says that 30% of downtown Detroit is parking lots and that only counts surface lots. It's a city designed for cars and as long as the auto industry has a hold on it I don't imagine it will change to pro-pedestrian and public transit.
@@CharlesWillisBonsai But Detroit really isn't the only city with a downtown dominated by parking lots. The auto industry played a big part in this. Still American cities should try to turn it around. thriving downtowns, pedestrian friendly, with shops and culture, are economic motors for cities.
@@fortheloveofmusic860 I do understand where you are coming from, but much of downtown is now parking lots because what was there before became blight and was torn down. It was more filled in at one point. The issue for Detroit city itself is that it is 138 miles squared, and even when things were good, living downtown was not the custom particularly. People in the metro Detroit area in general want all those parking spaces filled up with new buildings too!! There just has to be the demand for the space to rent. You might think it interesting to search the "Monroe Blocks." This is the group of buildings that will break ground in September next year in some of those parking lots, lol.
The parking lots are ugly but there arn't that many and I really like how they open up the views of all the beautiful pre-war skyscrapers. If they were turned into parks that would be ideal.
European cities have great architecture but they can feel very cramped.
Good for Detroit I was born and raised there move away in 1980 Due to my husband military Career I'm so happy it's coming back back in the 70 I was always downtown shopping
Good luck Detroit 🎉
That's great news!
I am Detroit born, raised and very proud of it. I moved down south right around this time last year, but I spent the last 5 years prior to that correcting people who always claimed Detroit was awful. We're flying up for a weekend visit later this month and I'm very excited to show my wife a lot of my favorite places since she's never been there.
I was born and raised in Detroit too. Detroit is disgusting. There is a lot more to any city than its "showcase" Downtown. I doubt very much anyone wants to buy a house in the City, raise their kids in Detroit neighborhoods and have them attend Detroit Public Schools. There's a saying that applies to Detroit..."You can put lipstick on a pig....but it's still a pig". I used to defend Detroit, now I defend people who trash it...b/c to a large extent they're right.
Bottom line for Downtown Detroit. It gets the Government and Business money. It's the White people who come in from the suburbs and support the whole system...then go back to the suburbs. Detroit is simply a lost Black city. It's not a "melting pot" city it was known for.
how was your trip? was it magical?
@@disposablecomments we had a great time as expected
Nah you gave up on your city & left it behind 😂 don’t go back now
@@qbanz00 you have no idea what you're talking about.
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Still too many surface parking lots downtown and nearby. And Im not just referring to the stuff owned by Illitch, the city needs to eliminate or drastically reduce their parking minimums.
Let me give you one example why. According to Sue Mosey in a Crains article, Joe Louis Southern Kitchen had to get a parking minimum exemption because somehow being near the QLine and multiple buse routes on Woodward and West Grand Blvd, plus many other surface lots nearby would not pass the current as written city ordinance if it had been applied and enforced.
Now that's the sad truth about the United States-- we cleared historic neighborhoods for parking lots and highways. I hope we're finally getting it right, slowly but surely
@@ReeseChown The ugly truth many don’t want to hear is that by making cities centered around the automobile, we in turn made them less walkable, spread communities apart, encouraged urban sprawl, lengthened commutes and raised the cost of living. Detroit, as well as most cities, could likely dramatically benefit from strong public transportation networks and a more walking/bike friendly downtown core. Love this town but hate seeing it’s potential squandered.
@@GigachudBDE Absolutely. Automotive company lobbyists contributed to the car-dependent, cracking concrete infrastructure. Much of Detroit's Paris-based radial grid layout was messed up by empty lots.
I'm up in Mount Clemens and transportation to and from Detroit is an old, slow SMART bus. Could you imagine a Gratiot rail line in lieu of grass medians?
True, but compare Detroit's surface parking with Houston or Albuquerque. Or take a look at the satellite overhead of Ford Field, and its surface parking, and then compare with SoFi stadium, and its surface parking. Hint: when you add in the Big Box stores and its lot to the southeast of SoFi, it's the exact same size as the downtown Detroit area.
Parking minimums have to be eliminated entirely. We're better off expanding the Q-Line and moving parking structures (not lots) farther out. The land downtown is too valuable to waste on parking.
@reesechown simply giving the existing FAST bus a dedicated transit only lane would help the "slow" buses tremendously. Streetcars got stuck in traffic as cars became more and more popular. So some said buses would be able to zig zag around the cars better. But it turns out, having lots of cars in any lane slows everything down no matter what.
Search for a video called "to solve congestion, buses must be given priority" or something like that.
The thing is, Detroit is supposed to be getting exactly that next year. But only the Corktown area of the FAST Michigan route. Really don't understand why it cant be budgeted yet on the other FAST routes too, since much of the cost of the Michigan Ave project will be dealing with the old bricks in front of Tiger Stadium.
I LOVE this!!! Lived in Sterling Heights for a couple of years in the early '70s and then In Windsor for 22 years, SO HAPPY to see this happening in Detroit, and this is from a born and raised Clevelander!
Cleveland and Detroit are coming back
What about Chicago ???
I like Cleveland alot, i have a studio condo there for work part time, its great
@@BIFC216 LOL
Hopefully a few skyscrapers in addition to the new the Hudson project will be built to give Detroit a real skyline
What u mean by that ?
We live in downtown Detroit for 16 years now, we love it ,keeps getting better every year
That's the key....you live in the ENCLAVE of Downtown Detroit. Go move into the neighborhoods and buy a house, raise your family there and send them to Detroit Public Schools. THEN write how Detroit is getting better every year. There's more to a city than its downtown area.
@@topgeardel , i have family that lives in three very good city neighborhoods, East English Village, Rosedale Park, and Sherwood Forest, all beautiful thriving neighborhoods, there is more to Detroit than downtown, and incidentally,Detroit has gotten better,…every city had good and bad parts, as do many rural areas, I live here,.
This is what everyone was saying in 2019 and then COVID hit and then deadsville for 3 years. I would know, i was living in Downtown Detroit during this time. Everything halted for 3 years and Governor Whitmer Unconstitutionally halted and shut down local business and a-lot of people left. Hopefully another pandemic doesn't happen again because these Democrat political leaders try to be dictators.
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Downtown Detroit is great 😊
Still a trashy city
Alright DETROIT 😊
It’s funny how everybody’s moving down to the south maybe 100 years everybody move back up to the north, and you never know!
I think thats good for the city. I think Detroit needs some fresh people there with new ideas.
Out with the old in with the new I say.
Who cares.the neighborhoods need the help.restore the houses.stop relying on community groups to clean detroit🤬🤬
Nobody’s gonna do it for you though. You gotta do it yourself.
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Faraz - you need to go to the closed captioning people and have them fix your name. It's appearing there as Foot As Jab It.
Positive signs.💯👍🏽
The most important construction project of all is not mentioned. The Freakin' Bridge!
Yeah, economically thats huge.
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I want the city to be similar to atlanta with lots of skyscrapers right ?
313 Detroit Michigan
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I can't wait to hear the "boom" when they drop the Ren Cen to make room for more construction.
While the neighborhoods are a filthy mess.
Downtown is the heart. Jobs have been created and blood ie money will get pumped around the city.
I've been watching a TH-cam video series showing that more and more neighborhoods are being cleaned up. Once blighted areas (e.g. Brightmoor and Poletown East) are bring converted into urban farms.
More high ass cost living is in development is what there saying
What about the rest of the City ?
Well, the plan is to reclaim that urban prairie closest to downtown with higher density development. This will get the tax revenue up, meaning they can lower the rate. Remove blight and repeat and more development will follow.
The streetscape programs seem to finally be something that is actually working. (At attracting more investment)
Plus there's the Joe Louis Greenway.
The main thing I would like to see in the neighborhoods is more mixed use zoning. No reason that empty lots that once had houses should only be allowed to build new houses in their place. Parker Durand & The Coe (both on Van Dyke in/near West Village) are two examples of what should be built in more grassy lots all over the place.
Maybe Detroit can make some more townhomes?
Haveto think positive
I am sorry for the bad comments on this video. It's great this city is seeing improvements. The city is beautiful and the people take care of one another. Yes there are homeless people and crime just like any other city but I believe in time we will see great change.
"I'm sorry for the bad comments on this video 😭😭😭" lol I'd rob you boy. Please tell me when you come back
@@ReeseChown Hi, I'm back
Hopefully one day they will finally host the Olympics.
I'm from SE Michigan. I appreciate the sentiment, but that's actually a terrible idea. The city doesn't need more large abandoned spaces, which is what happens 99 percent of the time to cities that host the Olympics.
@sharr630 the only way I see it working is having Chicago the primary host of an Olympics while Detroit (and Milwaukee & Indianapolis) host a few of the events at their existing venues.
Trying to have all the events in the same city just isn't practical anymore and isn't really necessary with tv coverage these days.
I love my city ❤
All the times I've been to Detroit it didn't smell bad like these comments are trying to say. Why complain about the homeless as if that is what makes a city bad? Every city has homelessness. Why let that affect your attitude so much? The city has great restaurants, the buses will essentially take you anywhere you want to go. They have all those major projects that will bring more people to the city as well. They will be inserting a park near the riverfront.
They are building something from the top down and that has never been tried before. Breakthroughs are happening in Detroit. The city is on its way up. Yes, the parking is horrendous like any city with a lot of people. Just find a spot and pay for it. You will probably be walking a lot. It's worth it though. Each time I went down to Detroit (I live 30-45 min away) I have never had a bad experience.
I had a lot of fun in that city. I wish people would stop judging it so badly.
Tl;dr autist. Basically this kid lives with his mommy in the suburbs and had sooo much fun on his trip! 🤓🥳
Phone on, son? You fucked with me and I responded.
I'll make you my bitch when you're here again. No lube boy!
I hope they hire black men
"Take him to Detroit!" 👺
No thanks. I'll pass.
Let’s goooo
This is what everyone was saying in 2019 and then COVID hit and then deadsville for 3 years. I would know, i was living in Downtown Detroit during this time. Everything halted for 3 years and Governor Whitmer Unconstitutionally halted and shut down local business and a-lot of people left. Hopefully another pandemic doesn't happen again because these Democrat political leaders try to be dictators.
good for detroit
Love to see it!
I’m still skeptical but hopefully it works out but the economy going a bad direction fingers crossed for Detroit
Economy going in a bad direction? Where are you?
@@richardgreen2200 the U.S.
I think Detroit has seen far too much development to backslide if the economy has a recession. The city has real assets now that are great.
fix old building build more small busnisses detroit will regain is self sending my hopes and prayers🙏🙏
So does this means detroit will be like atlanta with alot of buildings ?
We need to focus on downtown deployment and growth and demolition in other areas. We need more demolition in other areas of Detroit letting us know how many buildings are actually left to demolish!!!
Not just demolition. There needs to be consolidation. Things are to spread out.
Shlenke is a Detroiter by name.
Detriot needs renovations good.
None of it will matter if it's not safe...
@mandoh conspired to European and Asian cities no American city is truly low crime
Downtown Detroit is safer then downtown San Francisco
@@TheAmericanCatholicasian cities are not safe, maybe for tourists but not for citizens. In china people disappear all the time because the govt are all thugs who kill anyone who speaks out or steps out of line, I wouldn’t call that very “safe”. Not to mention the crime in countries like thailand or vietnam…
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I love that when you turn your back on a city that city comes back ps just look at Newark my city
Please, no offence to anybody, and I mean that, but I thought Detroit was dead, or at least dying. The last I heard, after declaring bankruptcy, the city fell apart, and it broke my heart to see, because many years ago, when I was a young man (I’m 54) I was in Detroit in its heyday, a bustling, successful, powerful metropolis. But then the crime began, and when the auto makers abandoned the city, it became a ghost town where entire swaths of suburbia turned into an urban wasteland, with thousands of condemned homes and buildings, rotting away, with crime, gun violence, gang violence, and destruction of everything all around, it seemed like the city was going to be completely destroyed. I’m not that far away, I’m in Toronto, but like everyone else, I have a very busy life, and I keep meaning to go to Detroit to see what’s going on there now. Seeing this video makes me really happy, but I’d like to see it for myself, and hear it from you guys, from the people that live there. What’s happened to bring it back to life? Last I checked entire neighbourhoods were being bulldoze over because the homes were all abandoned and falling apart, along with many of the old factories. Have you guys managed to turn things around? I am a huge skyscraper fanatic, especially historical ones, and your city is blessed with many of them, please tell me they are actually going to save them, restore them to their original grandeur, and restore life back to the city that was once so beautiful. Also, can anyone give me a few suggestions of the best places to visit in the city because I do plan on going there if not this summer then next summer? Either way, I’m just so glad to see things are starting to turn around. This is the perfect example of why you never build an entire city based upon one main industry only. I know a lot of people fled the city, leaving behind only those who couldn’t afford to leave, and the race riots didn’t help matters either, has there been any improvement on that front? That was the beginning of the end, it is so wonderful to see a new beginning from that ending. Are any of the skyscrapers open to the public? I would love to see inside. My favourite city in the world is Manhattan. I have travelled the globe, but Manhattan has my heart, however, Detroit has so much potential, and it’s a heck of a lot closer, only a 5 Hour drive from my house in downtown Toronto. I wish every single citizen in Detroit nothing but the very best of luck in the future, and in the present. So, if any of you guys can tell me some of the best places to visit, I’d greatly appreciate it, I just have to see this for myself, to see it coming back to life after going through so much heartache and strife, thanks!
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Detroit was once the engine of this country, looks like money is going where it’s supposed to now
A little too late, everybody from Detroit has already left and moved to booming cities like Nashville, Austin, Houston, Dallas, Charlotte, Atlanta, Tampa and Raliegh.
They left mainly to the suburbs
Only decent city in that list is Atlanta and that’s a stretch.
@@DetroitDevelopmentDrone Maybe so but they're all better than Detroit. Atlanta is probably the least decent on the list.
@@blast4me754 🙄" No doubt, your ' decent ' label is just code for white. "
You obviously don’t know what’s going on in a lot of the downtown midtown neighborhoods, real estate moves very quickly in our Lafayette Park neighborhood, many of the glass townhouse sell within 3 to 4 days, we have a lot of people coming in from California and New York. Along with many of the younger people from the suburbs still moving in.
who cares, as long as the neighborhoods rot nothing will get better.
The neighborhoods will never thrive without a healthy, robust, growing downtown area. Detroit started downtown and it has to redevelop from downtown
GET YO HATING ASS ON
@@josephzilafro2720 Exactly. The money has to come into the city first.
Don't you realize that the core of the city has to bring the people in ?
@@mrrockdaddy100 Yep. And investment has already been moving into neighborhoods.
Denver Colorado all over again. More and more people with 0 upgrades to transportation. This city will fail. Already the city's sewer system is FAILING making the city smell like feces along with the lack of opportunities for public bathrooms.
The sewer system is failing the transportation is failing but yeah we built a giant metal slide and some buildings ignore the biohazards.
Don't get me started on drinking water and the pipes leading to houses and how many open pipes are seeping toxic everything into our water system. But that's not profitable to take care of 🤣🤣
The city doesn't smell that way. I don't know why you would say that.
Drinking water?! What are you talking about? Move on bro you haven't a clue 😂😂 Detroit is definitely on the upswing.
@@Megan-19 They keep getting Flint and Detroit mixed up.
He's blunt but he has a point-- the city does stink some times, especially over by the department of water and sewage which is hilariously ironic. I have nearly pissed my pants downtown three times due to lack of amenities, especially when everything is locked after 9PM. The Q-Line is a slow ass joke that only crazy bums ride now, they yell and harass everyone and some times don't even get on board! LOL We need proper rail transportation, but automotive company lobbyists don't want us to have it.
I LOVE this city but transportation is key. And toilets so you don't SH!T yourself
@@ReeseChown You complaining about what a literal sewage plant smells like explains it all for me.
You have to look mean if you don't want to be approached by the hobos. It's just about street smarts. Don't tear down a city on the rise up and complain. Thanks.
Detroit >>>>> New York City and Los Angeles
1:06 the shape this city is in and the stigma it has throughout the country, it'll be decades before it's a destination.
Wrong! It's already becoming a destination. People from the burbs are flocking to downtown for entertainment 🎉
@@kirkcharboneau1090 ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Here's your sign
@@kirkcharboneau1090 yeah! It reads "Welcome to Detroit"
@@kirkcharboneau1090 and George Carlin's got a marsh mellow for ya.
De2roit 🫡
Not one black person in this video. I see color.
Booming? The city's largest employer cut staff by 60% after under paying then in average of 40% compared to the market. What demand is going to fill these new buildings? 😅😅😅
They are bringing jobs and more people living and coming back to Detroit which is great for more tax revenues which is good for the city. that's how cities grow.
There are over 10 World Headquarters in Downtown Detroit. Try again.
X_ you been downtown on a week day, ask a restaurant about sales year 3 post pandemic. Say less my guy...
I lived downtown and went to Wayne State before and after Covid my guy. Try to keep up. Commercial Real Estate is declining because of Remote Workers like myself, not residential real estate. @@blazejon
I went to Wayne State and lived in downtown for years working for General Motors. Post Pandemic crowds are bigger@@blazejon
not them comparing it to central park
it is comparable. Central park is overrated btw
Central Park kinda sucks in my opinion.
If you actually knew anything about history, the architect of Central Park in NYC also designed many of the parks in Detroit. Nice try though.
@@GEN_X_ you cant compare these parks, sure its the same architect but this is 22 acres and central park is around 850 almost 38 times bigger with alot more to offer it goes through millions of peoples background this will bring a park for the people left in Detroit, don't get me wrong it looks nice just like central park.
You can 100% compare Detroit parks. Belle Isle Park in Detroit is 982 Acres Same Architect designer Frederick Law Olmsted in the 1880s to design it. He is known for his design of Central Park in New York City.. Same Style. Size means nothing. Detroit was once the wealthiest city on the planet. Was wealthier than NYC and the architecture and parks are on the same scale. @@Chris-po9lk
With a crime rate of 66 per one thousand residents, Detroit has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 15. Where do I sign up for that ?
State the EXACT website where I can get your peer reviewed and published bullllllllshit, I mean "statistics", Billy Bob.
@@greeneyedwarlock882 It's from the bull chit FBI
@@greeneyedwarlock882 Why are you trying to tell yourself black is white / The far right USA Today rated Detroit the third most violent city in America
Great news but Detroit still sucks!
Such an original comment. Don't come here then, we don't care about you 😂😂
No it doesn’t it’s a great place to live downtown, where do you live? If you don’t live in our area I guarantee you probably have a fraction of the amenities we have.
Facts, and I'm from Detoilet
@@ricosally6734 , So am I, for a total of 23 years now, and my area is great, sorry if yours isn’t
It’s gonna take 50+ years for Detroit to fully recover. I’m not from Detroit at all, but it’s good to see development happening.
No.