Detroit's embrace of urbanism is also contributing massively to its revival. They're tearing down one of their downtown highways and turning the land back into the mixed-use residential area that it once was. This is a trend that will more than likely continue as Detroit sees the benefits of what they destroyed back in the 50's.
In fact, towns like Detroit and Cleveland have the "blank canvas" to create a new vision of 21st Century urbanism that could match what the Dutch has done in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. Let's tear down many of the decrepit, unusable buildings and replace them with new buildings and offices inspired by classical and Art Deco architecture.
That is totally false. The have not done that. There are preliminary plans to redo a short stretch of one Freeway entering downtown but as of today nothing is being done.
@akinoz Detroiter here or former Detroiter that lives in nearby suburb. The claim by the commenter is inaccurate. Detroit has not removed and freeways and replaced them with residential space. There is one plan still in preliminary phases of eliminating a short stretch of one connecting Freeway leading into the downtown area.
@@Sacto1654 first of all, amsterdam and rotterdamn rebuilt with modern styles, second of all, those decrepit unusable buildings are classical styles, most detroit suburban 1950s-2000s era buildings are in pretty alright shape, they aren't going anywhere anytime soon
I’m optimistic about Detroit. I live around Pontiac and you can definitely feel the positivity spreading though out the area. We’ll be back. Might take some time but this is a great region that is not dying
Even to automobile works back in motion, rebuilding delving enighbourhoods, even mass green projects planned sicne 2010, highway and tunnel projects , monorail expansion and more and maybe YOUR ideas added too
I’m from Southern France, and I’ve stayed in Detroit for a few weeks while I was travelling the US. It became my favorite city in the country, I only met welcoming and kind people who treated me like one of their own. The city does have a strange atmosphere, like it’s been stuck in time, but I was really inspired by some stories that I heard, and I always give credit to the locals when mentioning how good the city is becoming now, because from what I seen they always had each other’s back with no outside help and got their salvation out of sheer solidarity and effort. Much love for Michigan from Corsica.
@@vincenta1382 sent a few weeks theer back when i was a teen in 2008 and visted agin once 2011 and met a famosu rapper artist form piengrove records and soem music still online to this day whom wrote classics like lets go jesus, i love minoraties, budder, bugatti, etc
Born and raised. You won’t find more resilient people anywhere. Indomitable spirits. You’ll never keep Detroit down, and anyone from there knows it. BTW, BEST art museum in the country.
Just saw artists from there where I am and it’s the best art I’ve seen in a while including painter Firelei Baez. I’m living there a short period soon. Looking forward to exploring a new city. Also, it’s near Canada in case things go wrong in November😅💙
At 14:52, for those not familiar with Detroit & its environs, what you're looking at is Windsor,Ontario, Canada - our good neighbor across the [Detroit] river.
I am one of those artists who is trying to do my small part. I am rehabbing a house on the East side which is still pretty rough. But it has to start this way. There are families on the block that have been there for decades, and I hope they know we are trying to respect them, not gentrify to push them out. Their property values will increase. And Duggan has done amazing things. The blight clearing alone has done so much. There is land now to garden.
@homecourtstory I'm a Eastsider now myself, born and raised right here in Detroit. I work in Detroit and shop in Detroit the best I can. My statements are from 60 years of experience - that, "I hope they know we are trying to respect them, not gentrify to push them out" crap doesn't fly with most of us. I have to assume that this commentor is Whyte. A BLacK person wouldn't have thought that way. What the heck does that mean anyway??!!! - to try not to push them out??!! I'M going to move because YOU came here to fix up a house??! Huh?? Go on, fix up your gentrified houses, but you better live in that house and put your kids in the Detroit public schools too, THEN you'll respect us. Otherwise, we don't have time with you.
Maybe better than LA, but not better than NYC or Chicago. Detroit isn’t even better than Minneapolis and St. Louis in their own Midwest region. Detroit’s comeback is definitely a good tale of what urban revitalization should be though and hopefully they continue to rebuild the once bustling city of America.
Man - all those people walking on the sidewalks of Detroit in those old video clips. It reminds me of one of my high school friends' mother : she told us back then that in the 1940's - when she was a young girl - Detroit was like New York City ( I also heard that said by another lady concerning Mount Clemens, the capital of Macomb County, north of Detroit, which is in Wayne County ). That's exactly what I got to thinking : how I would be hard-pressed to identify either Detroit or NYC in those clips, absent any landmarks that have survived down to the present day.
My Grandpa was actually a Detroit police officer during the 1967 riots, sadly he passed away after losing the battle to pancreatic cancer back in November
Thank you for highlighting the downfall and revival of our great city. While there are still many challenges, it is nice to see it being shown in a positive light, helping to change its reputation as a dangerous, abandoned city to a city experiencing a comeback. I believe it will become the great city that it was once again.
I noticed that the 75 years of poor and corrupt city leadership was never mentioned. Fortunately, although far from perfect, it seems that the current city administration is actually getting something done..Detroit native who left Detroit in the 1970s for all of the reasons mentioned here. There are much nicer places to live but I'm happy to see improvements being made.
I've lived in Detroit my entire 50 years of life. I've seen the ups, the downs and the bankruptcy. I can say with the utmost certainty, that Detroit is coming back economically. The city can now sign checks and all that in black ink, instead of red ink.
@UnstopablePatriot I used to work for the state. I know how bad Detroit was. They were never trillions in the hole. At the worst, it was a few hundred million.
I went to the place in 2018; it was quite a modern, clean, popular, and facilitated urban view. People enjoyed daily life by walking around the riverside near the GM building, racing on boats on the water, or casino life at nightfall. Some people may ask: The city's crime rate is still high. This may sound reasonable that as reports in the papers have shown, yes, there is still something that is contributing to the people's concern, such as early closure of business hours at the local stores(usually around 4-5pm on business days); and frequent police patrols from daylight to nightfall, focusing on highly populated areas like black communities; casinos and a few sections of downtown. If you'd like to visit the city with your own eyes, you'd better choose daylight to come out and stay in areas that are heavily crowded and come back to the hotel or motel no later than 10pm(because after this time you can hear horns of police cars all around downtown).
So you were in the downtown area a few days? he are while improving is tiny sliver of the entire city. Outside the downtown area are vast stretches of urban decay. Some small pockets of revialization if we were using percentages it' s less than 20% of the entire town
Excellent video! as someone who has lived in metro Detroit for around a decade and a half now, it has been really cool to see how Detroit has slowly picked itself back up on its feet
So are we going to completely ignore Kwame Kilpatrick and other corrupt politicians leading to the downfall of Detroit? And then you completely glossed over the fact that Bedrock/Quicken/Dan Gilbert is a huge contributor to how Detroit got itself moving again
Bingo! You can always tell when a narrative or writers are not from the Detroit area of southeastern Michigan. The problems with Detroit were not just deindustrialization but crime and corruption as well. Crime is still high for the city and could certain be a drag on its revival.
@@silentmajority8365 Have you ever been? People who only get information from the mainstream media and YT videos do themselves a disservice. Go and meet people where they stand and live, then come back and give nuance opinion.
@@frankbj1152 yeah but what's the point comparing Detroit to a typical major city. What's interesting is how it was bankrupt a decade ago and is climbing out of the pit. Obviously it's no new york (yet)
I appreciate you bringing attention to the decline and rebirth of our magnificent city. It's good to see it portrayed positively, even though there are still a lot of obstacles to overcome. This helps shift the perception of the city from one of a dangerous, abandoned metropolis to one that is making a comeback. It will, in my opinion, revert to its former glory as a magnificent metropolis.
After the pandemic, working from home allowed me to move to Detroit, from Chicago. I bought a five bedroom historical home for 330k. I could never afford this in Chicago, and I love being part of the regrowth here.
One thing you forgot to mention is the opening of the long-overdue Gordie Howe International Bridge, which will open probably the middle of 2025. This new bridge will eliminate a severe bottleneck of trade between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, and given the massive amount of goods trade between Detroit and Windsor, it could transform Detroit into one of the biggest goods trans-shipment centers in the world, bringing in many thousands of new jobs into the city itself.
Detroit is improving from decades of decay, but it's got so much work that needs to be done to be "good" again, at least if you comparing how the city was in its peak. So much of the city still has empty land, & abandon buildings to fill in. The population is only 600,000, it's peak was 1.8 million, it's got a long way to go to fill all that population back in. Other then buses does Detroit even have public transit? Barely. I hope Detroit does continue to grow and improve but it will take decades I think.
Why do you need to fill it in and grow? Just transform it from big city to a medium size city and be happy with it. You don’t need millions of people to be in it to be a good place. Get rid of those abandoned houses, unused utility grid, streets, let the nature come back and live among it. Cities around the world are fighting so bad to have free space, but there is none left! This is such an opportunity to build a green city and everyone is just not getting it.
@@yaroslavkobezskyi that is a option, but Detroit still then has a lot of work to do then. If they were to turn the land into park space, new forests, new trails & bike paths that could be great...but how much of it currently is abandon empty lots with just over grown weeds exc.
@@jameschampken2660 I mean, if you plant specific trees there you don’t need to cut grass anymore. How often do we cut grass in the forest? And then removing pavement and rocks underneath you can reuse that elsewhere. The abandoned electric grid still needs maintenance as well as plumbing and cable, getting rid of it will save money in a long term.
@yaroslavkobezskyi it doesn't need to "grow" but it definitely does need to fill in. Even tho the city proper only has 600k, the metro has over 4 million. It should attract people from the suburbs to the city. And theres empty buildings that need new owners, as well as green space. Then it needs to improve public transit and walking/cycling infrastructure
@@Acrosstheglobechannelgreat video I didn't know that my family is from Canada the bad part about it is I don't know the government of Canada and how it is if you are low income. I was adopted and have been living in poverty all my life
Good to bad to good again. Probably not. Good to bad to stabilized. Probably. And yes, I did read the entire bankruptcy filing in 2014. Thousands of pages and a great document of years of neglect.
Im Happy for Detroit. Michigan needs a strong city, which hopefully Detroit can become. But if 1940-50 Detroit was good than it has a very long way to go currently.
I was ten, during the 67 riot. My mom was a domestic worker (in the suburbs) and a janitor at a nearby second job. She went to work, the day after the event started. She got worried and asked to go home, because she had a child left alone. She was told that she couldn’t drive back into a riot. They added that if she left, she would be fired. She was away for three days. At the time, we rented a room, in the basement of a house off Eight Mile Road and Wyoming Avenue. Crazy times!
It’s definitely turning itself around, slowly but surely. The surrounding neighborhoods are still pretty bad for a few miles, but the downtown is definitely coming around. Hopefully in another couple decades the growth spreads to the immediate surrounding communities.
Japan and Germany didn't pay less than US labor. German autoworkers were paid more and were FAR more unionized, and the difference between the Japanese workers and the highest paid German workers was about $1/hr. Just the currency exchange vastly favored Japan for a long time.
Actually, greedy companies and Outsourced our jobs to China and every little A hole. In the world. Trump Exposed these Sell us out for a dime. politicians who had their hands out at everywhere you turned.
And Japanese CEO pay was only eight times average worker pay. In the US, CEO pay was 400 times average worker pay. Now it's about quadrupled what it was in 1980.
The population is finally resolved to forego the past,in some ways,it was a who gives a sh-t attitude. Now Mayor Duggan and big financial contributors,Dan Gilbert,Rocket Mortgage,Dave Bing just to name a few have brought hope back,it may not take but it’s better than not trying. Don’t forget about the Gordie Howe bridge,that could be a significant boost to the entire region.
13:35 are you kidding me? The District Detroit has been a total bust. All that was actually built was the hockey arena and a bunch of surface parking lots. Areas directly across from the arena that were supposed to be new housing or hotel have remained fenced off gravel lots with nothing done. HBO Real Sports did a segment in 2019 on this and there has been numerous news articles about all the broken promises. How did your team not even do the slightest bit of research to check if any press releases from when the arena proposal was announced actually were built?
@samanthamorris2744 and how many of them have been built? How many have started construction? Shiny renderings mean nothing. The Illitch family has released many of those since the 90s only for absolutely nothing to become of them. Plus the video stated the district brought all kinds of housing and retail as if it had already been built. That is verifiably false no matter what, even if these latest proposals do get built in the future.
Shame they are thinking about tearing down most of the Ren Cen for absolutely no reason. Perfectly good buildings but ol Danno has his own plans. Destroy an iconic structure for whatever his goals are.
I have been born and raised in Detroit my entire life I encourage everybody to do not believe the hype just when you paint over a piece of crap it's still a piece of crap. Internal problems that's really going on in the city. Is looking good but it's still bad at the same time and that's just the truth
Your choice of photos and footage within specific phases of Detroit’s decline is strange. You show drone shots of what Woodward Ave looks like today. Why not show how bad it looked from 2000 to 2015?
I’m glad Detroit is doing well. I live in the region and unfortunately Detroit won’t become a big great city unless they adopt rapid public transit in and out of the city. The whole region is so car dependent. It’s stunting it’s growth.
Unfortunately unions played a very large roll in Detroit's downfall. UAW prevented car companies from being competitive during hard times in the automotive sector. As a result the big three kept lowering the quality of their cars, in an effort to reduce costs, while paying workers very high salaries they could not afford. The result was more and more manufacturing was relocating to regions with lower incomes and eventual bankruptcy pressures. City worker unions also profited greatly on the backs of the city, aligning with politicians who promised them golden handshakes, excessive pay raises and very large pension plans. These golden pension plans ended up crippling the city's ability to afford to maintain services, like police, city maintenance, parks and other services. Even though Detroit had one of the highest crime rates, it also had one of the lowest numbers of on duty police personnel. Once the city was no longer able to maintain itself there was a large push by residents to relocate to better run suburbs. It was politicians who ran the city into the ground. It was the city unions that cried the loudest when the city went bankrupt 8:30 . Not because they cared about Detroit, but they were about to lose their incredibly golden pensions. Now that the city is no longer on the hook for these ridiculous promises the city has been slowly rebuilding itself. Even though the car manufacturing is almost gone, new businesses are sprouting up, as the city invites new investment to rebuild the economy.
To reboot Detroit financially, (short term) economically (but in the long run for the better!!!!), most importantly of ALL, socially, i don't see why those that run the City embark of a MASSIVE regeneration programme focusing on the demolition & then clean up operation of ALL the abandoned homes/entire neighbours & redundant infrastructure that clearly needs raising to the ground. THINK of the labour (job creation & certain professional skills needed) for such a task. Once completed, "yes" there will be A LOT of barren land, or better put, the City of Detroit has just earned itself a MASSIVE land bank. However & NOW there is NOTHING there that once stood, surely the crime rate would drop substantially. Temporarily, give the land back to nature. Hence why I initially said, "short term economically". What's left, is what's left. For those people that are NOW left in the wilderness & with their homes (because they didn't need demolishing), as some kind of compensation, maybe the Federal & local Government(s) look into allowing those home owners the opportunity to buy land (within reason) at a discounted rate. Many of these people may NEED to not only retrain themselves (no pun intended) in the field of agriculture, but because they are NOW having to live & work much closer with nature, maybe this MIGHT eventually trigger a much more positive mentality & vibe within the City? Surely, agriculture (eventually) produced by LOCAL people, will help the remaining & existing LOCAL economy? With time & before, the thought of another brick being laid, City officials should have brought themselves, THE TIME, to NOW just sit back & THINK about any NEW "development" projects, mooted short or long term, within the City of Detroit. However crucially & most importantly, what businesses & industries the City of Detroit welcome & align themselves with, for the future. How could they ever forget how the City once went from (quite literally) "boom to bust" in little under 100 years, if that. The suggestion(s) seem very simplistic & in some cases, extreme. However, you can only play the game of life with the cards your currently left holding........
5he import8ng 9f Japanese cars caused the closing of many automobile plants and auto executives refusal to mak I e fuel efficiant and smaller cars. The automtive industry was the lifeblood of Detroit !!!!.
"You Aren't Uplifting Or Hopeful Person!!!"That's What Needs To Stop!!!"Bad Mouthing Other Urban Cities Suffer From Some Of The Same Problems!!!"But They Local Press Doesn't Bad Mouth The Cities They Work In Publicly Or Written!!!"
"It Was Many Many People Here In The City!!!"The Riots Happened In Many Cities Civil Unrest We Had A Double Edge Sword Of A Riot In Detroit!!!"It Was A Love Hate Marriage Going On!!!"😢😢😢
The growth is pushing them further away from the city center. They are slowly starting to spill into the suburbs bordering detroit, and slowly destroying those communities, just like they did to detroit. It's like a slow moving virus, slowly destroying 1 suburb at a time.
Nah Whites leave, take their businesses with them and Blacks are left cause its affordable and everyone always blames them yet it's like we forget Jim Crow era and did anyone really expect Black people to own businesses in White America? Now that it's bouncing back with the same majority Black, whites want to take credit again.
15:36 A video should be created to explore why homicide has become so prevalent in Detroit. While I understand that systemic racism can push individuals into the black market, how does that lead to committing murder unless it's a result of a drug deal gone wrong or the actions of psychopaths?
The murder situation is interesting when you compare it to property crime, which is the typical benchmark for crimes of desperation. The simple answer is, murder rate is directly related to gang violence. The size of the city and its infrastructure make it difficult to police, leading to prevalent open air drug dealing. Gangs fight over territory, tons of vacant land makes murder easier to get away with. More development makes for safer cities, so long as the police are empowered to act.
My favorite thing about Detroit is its lack of an ostentatious cathedral downtown. My least favorite thing about Detroit is 2 things: 1) Some kind of greenbelt network/bike trail/interconnected parkways system, and, 2) Significant public sculpture commemorating its history as a frontier outpost and celebrating its Indian history. Wall murals don't count. That's just graffiti. The meager collection of downtown trinket-level public art is shameful and embarrassing and uninspiring.
ask any business owner what the regulatory environment is like in Detroit.. Detroit does not want Mom and pop businesses here in the city. We are not out of the woods yet.
A person can put the blame on Corps & their decisions. That is a simple excuse & mighty handy. That excuse makes good press. Some of that blame must rest also on the citizens of any city. How those folks conduct themselves, publicly & privately. Who do those folks elect to public office play a big part. What type of folks make up the population of that city ie; education levels, socio/ economic level, history of beneficiary, civic pride. When those factors are decreased & there are axes to grind against society combined with a don't give a damm attitude, then that populous must share part of the blame for their demise. No one should be given a pass & blame shifted to nameless, faceless other factors. That is a cop out & responsiability shifted to salve egos.
Politics were the primary reason for Detroit's downfall. Democrats largely had the correct policies (excluding racism) up until the 60s... Workers rights, breaking up the trusts, pro private sector unions, laws strengthening the middle class were all great policies under Democratic administrations. Once LBJ's great society programs were enacted it became clear the Democrats were the party of Marxism amd the elites. The Democrat party moved further left and you saw the fruits of that in Detroit over the last several decades and can see the downfall today in California, Portland, and New York. Democrat policies largely do not work and their incessant belief that throwing more money and government at problems will solve them is manifested in failing cities like Detroit.
What policies are you talking about? NYC had Republican governor’s and Mayors. Policies that made cities less friendly to pedestrians and affordable housing cause downfalls of cities. Wealth disparities are the biggest issues. It’s often caused by people trying to make cities into suburbs by being more car friendly (causing higher costs of living ) rather than people friendly which would lower costs of living. I don’t think Republicans do any better. Most do worse. But yes, many democrats also miss the mark and cater to the rich with cars. I think getting car catering out of cities would help the most. Cities should have affordable public transit and people should be able to work and live in the same place at a reasonable cost. This is why cities started existing and should continue to cater to those living there. Not cars. People.
@@JDMimeTHEFIRST Restrictive zoning laws are an example policy. I'm not sure there's any data to substantiate your claim about cars... However it's very clear that Democrat run cities and states are economically falling behind republican-controlled areas. Also because you brought it up... Democrat run areas have the greatest wealth inequality; this is a widely distributed statistic.
I think Boston is heading towards being a shitty suburb city. They keep catering to drivers and ignoring the fact it’s a city. Hopefully, we start building affordable housing again without parking lots and garages. People don’t need cars in cities? We don’t need to house cars. We need to house people! We need people to be able to live and work in the same place (you know, the whole point of a city).
So much this talk about racism in Detroit is ridiculous, racism went both ways and still does. Can’t complain about “white flight” in one hand then talk about “gentrification” in the other.
You really didn't try very hard with this did you ? Ford bought the Central station 5 years ago and is just finishing up (to be opened in June) a $1 Billion dollar rebuild which is a major reason why Corktown is going nuts right now. The owner of Rocket Mtg & The owner of Little Caesars have spent Billions downtown and this should hammer home how little work you did - Not 1 pic of the Detroit Lions stadium - Built by the Ford family BEFORE the Little Caesars stadium was even considered and, yet, spitting distance from the Tigers stadium. Just lazy......
Ive worked at Greektown since 2009. I love it and I will retire from there. Also, the Lions winning a super bowl would mean more for the city of detroit than any other franchise in america.
Concentration in car manufacturing, white and business flight,redlining, gang and criminal activity were contributing factors in the decline. Gentrification and crime reform are drivers for the revival. Memphis experienced this on a smaller level. However Memphis leaders must consult with Detroit on how they were able to reduce crime.
pretty simple. COMMUNITY driven work. The mayor funded multiple community groups to help reduce crime and the participating neighborhoods and the results are great.
While they mention race riots etc. that lead to the downfall. They forgot to mention that immigrants coming into detroit in the 90s from middle east and mexico and other places had a huge impact on Detroit's revival, buying and fixing houses and neighborhoods that were dilapidated, starting businesses, protecting their neighborhoods.
what happened to the beautiful Detroit of the 1950s? The 60s! That's what happened! The 1960s came along with the race riots and poverty and high crime!
Most of Detroit's Crime rates are with in smaller ghetto areas within Detroit, I would still go out with my Pistol on hand but it does seem to get better.
How could the crime rate NOT fall in Detroit following the exit of so much of its inner city population, after most of the houses collapsed???? I doubt that there is a "comeback". They said this many times before but it never really happens for Detroit. The city and its suburbs continue to be hollowed out by ghettos and the junkification of houses. Crime still stubbornly high.
The comeback is vastly overstated . It' s true areas are improving but as a percentage of the city as a whole very low. Crime did ease last year. One reason were a couple of rhe worst areas were targeted with special task forces to go after the worst offenders and gang bangers. Another reason never talked about is Detroit criminals have really begun targeting suburbs. Several bordering communities are seeing huge increases of violent crime with the majority being Detroiters. While it is Detroiters those crimes are not part of Detroit crime statistics.
No surprise there! They simply ignore the crime committed by Detroiters in suburban areas, then call it evidence of "crime reduction". Detroit will never have a comeback, it's just too far gone.
Detroit's embrace of urbanism is also contributing massively to its revival. They're tearing down one of their downtown highways and turning the land back into the mixed-use residential area that it once was. This is a trend that will more than likely continue as Detroit sees the benefits of what they destroyed back in the 50's.
That’s the way!
In fact, towns like Detroit and Cleveland have the "blank canvas" to create a new vision of 21st Century urbanism that could match what the Dutch has done in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. Let's tear down many of the decrepit, unusable buildings and replace them with new buildings and offices inspired by classical and Art Deco architecture.
That is totally false. The have not done that. There are preliminary plans to redo a short stretch of one Freeway entering downtown but as of today nothing is being done.
@akinoz Detroiter here or former Detroiter that lives in nearby suburb. The claim by the commenter is inaccurate. Detroit has not removed and freeways and replaced them with residential space. There is one plan still in preliminary phases of eliminating a short stretch of one connecting Freeway leading into the downtown area.
@@Sacto1654 first of all, amsterdam and rotterdamn rebuilt with modern styles, second of all, those decrepit unusable buildings are classical styles, most detroit suburban 1950s-2000s era buildings are in pretty alright shape, they aren't going anywhere anytime soon
I’m optimistic about Detroit. I live around Pontiac and you can definitely feel the positivity spreading though out the area. We’ll be back. Might take some time but this is a great region that is not dying
Michigan in the summer is a wonderful place to live.
Even to automobile works back in motion, rebuilding delving enighbourhoods, even mass green projects planned sicne 2010, highway and tunnel projects , monorail expansion and more and maybe YOUR ideas added too
Even best city in Michigan!!! And also loved its pine grove records akak record label I’ve listened to since middle school
I’m from Southern France, and I’ve stayed in Detroit for a few weeks while I was travelling the US. It became my favorite city in the country, I only met welcoming and kind people who treated me like one of their own. The city does have a strange atmosphere, like it’s been stuck in time, but I was really inspired by some stories that I heard, and I always give credit to the locals when mentioning how good the city is becoming now, because from what I seen they always had each other’s back with no outside help and got their salvation out of sheer solidarity and effort. Much love for Michigan from Corsica.
@@vincenta1382 sent a few weeks theer back when i was a teen in 2008 and visted agin once 2011 and met a famosu rapper artist form piengrove records and soem music still online to this day whom wrote classics like lets go jesus, i love minoraties, budder, bugatti, etc
Born and raised. You won’t find more resilient people anywhere. Indomitable spirits. You’ll never keep Detroit down, and anyone from there knows it. BTW, BEST art museum in the country.
I agree. I visited in 2016 and am due for a return.
The DIA! You bet! And the BEST Riverwalk (in the top3) in the nation!
Agreed! Detroit's art museum could hold its own even if it was in Europe.
Just saw artists from there where I am and it’s the best art I’ve seen in a while including painter Firelei Baez. I’m living there a short period soon. Looking forward to exploring a new city. Also, it’s near Canada in case things go wrong in November😅💙
At 14:52, for those not familiar with Detroit & its environs, what you're looking at is Windsor,Ontario, Canada - our good neighbor across the [Detroit] river.
Also known as "South Detroit" according to Journey
The Detroit River - my Midwestern American Danube.
I remember visiting depressed crime riddled Detroit in 2007 then went home to booming clean and safe Portland. Now its literally the reverse.
Crazy
I’ve lived right outside Detroit off Joy road for 20 years now.
So happy to see the public view of Detroit being halfway decent these days🫶🫶
Back in the early 70s I pumped gas at the Mobile gas station at Joy and Southfield right across from the Herman Garden housing projects
@@mattharper588oh that’s not far at all!
I am one of those artists who is trying to do my small part. I am rehabbing a house on the East side which is still pretty rough. But it has to start this way. There are families on the block that have been there for decades, and I hope they know we are trying to respect them, not gentrify to push them out. Their property values will increase. And Duggan has done amazing things. The blight clearing alone has done so much. There is land now to garden.
Good grief.
I'm glad you're not my neighbor.
Wow, @@salemdesigns65, Jose isn’t even yt, and you’re hating on them. You’re definitely a Democrat.
Did you get dropped as a baby, @@salemdesigns65?
@@salemdesigns65why do you say that?
@homecourtstory
I'm a Eastsider now myself, born and raised right here in Detroit. I work in Detroit and shop in Detroit the best I can.
My statements are from 60 years of experience - that, "I hope they know we are trying to respect them, not gentrify to push them out" crap doesn't fly with most of us. I have to assume that this commentor is Whyte. A BLacK person wouldn't have thought that way. What the heck does that mean anyway??!!! - to try not to push them out??!!
I'M going to move because YOU came here to fix up a house??! Huh??
Go on, fix up your gentrified houses, but you better live in that house and put your kids in the Detroit public schools too, THEN you'll respect us. Otherwise, we don't have time with you.
Coming back strong now. Cranes everywhere! Absolutely beautiful now. Much better than NY, LA, etc
I am frequently in Windsor, Ontario and I definitely agree.
Let's all stop comparing. Shows a sign of insecurity.
Chicago is still the best city!
@@brooklynbri7572not signs of insecurity, signs to follow!
Maybe better than LA, but not better than NYC or Chicago. Detroit isn’t even better than Minneapolis and St. Louis in their own Midwest region. Detroit’s comeback is definitely a good tale of what urban revitalization should be though and hopefully they continue to rebuild the once bustling city of America.
Love to see America's Comeback City!
Fake comeback😂😂
@@jaycee11145 Why would ya say that?
Man - all those people walking on the sidewalks of Detroit in those old video clips. It reminds me of one of my high school friends' mother : she told us back then that in the 1940's - when she was a young girl - Detroit was like New York City ( I also heard that said by another lady concerning Mount Clemens, the capital of Macomb County, north of Detroit, which is in Wayne County ). That's exactly what I got to thinking : how I would be hard-pressed to identify either Detroit or NYC in those clips, absent any landmarks that have survived down to the present day.
Once the auto capital of the world now a third world country
Demographics change everything
There’s plenty of landmarks that still exist today, just go down and see for yourself.
My Grandpa was actually a Detroit police officer during the 1967 riots, sadly he passed away after losing the battle to pancreatic cancer back in November
Thank you for highlighting the downfall and revival of our great city. While there are still many challenges, it is nice to see it being shown in a positive light, helping to change its reputation as a dangerous, abandoned city to a city experiencing a comeback. I believe it will become the great city that it was once again.
Juneteenth lol
The blacks destroyed it and they are the ones that will always keep it down.
You're smoking crack if you think it will ever be as great as it once was.
@@silentmajority8365Joomteemf is the correct spelling and pronunciation, just fyi.
@donde2k no it's Juneteenth
I noticed that the 75 years of poor and corrupt city leadership was never mentioned. Fortunately, although far from perfect, it seems that the current city administration is actually getting something done..Detroit native who left Detroit in the 1970s for all of the reasons mentioned here. There are much nicer places to live but I'm happy to see improvements being made.
I've lived in Detroit my entire 50 years of life. I've seen the ups, the downs and the bankruptcy. I can say with the utmost certainty, that Detroit is coming back economically. The city can now sign checks and all that in black ink, instead of red ink.
Funny how when for the first time in decades a black isn't mayor that the city starts improving right away
How poetic
@UnstopablePatriot I used to work for the state. I know how bad Detroit was. They were never trillions in the hole. At the worst, it was a few hundred million.
Good things has improved. Also the spiritual environment should be good to keep satan and his demons at bay.
@UnstopablePatriot not my problem anymore. I'm retired
I went to the place in 2018; it was quite a modern, clean, popular, and facilitated urban view. People enjoyed daily life by walking around the riverside near the GM building, racing on boats on the water, or casino life at nightfall. Some people may ask: The city's crime rate is still high. This may sound reasonable that as reports in the papers have shown, yes, there is still something that is contributing to the people's concern, such as early closure of business hours at the local stores(usually around 4-5pm on business days); and frequent police patrols from daylight to nightfall, focusing on highly populated areas like black communities; casinos and a few sections of downtown. If you'd like to visit the city with your own eyes, you'd better choose daylight to come out and stay in areas that are heavily crowded and come back to the hotel or motel no later than 10pm(because after this time you can hear horns of police cars all around downtown).
So you were in the downtown area a few days? he are while improving is tiny sliver of the entire city. Outside the downtown area are vast stretches of urban decay. Some small pockets of revialization if we were using percentages it' s less than 20% of the entire town
Excellent video! as someone who has lived in metro Detroit for around a decade and a half now, it has been really cool to see how Detroit has slowly picked itself back up on its feet
So are we going to completely ignore Kwame Kilpatrick and other corrupt politicians leading to the downfall of Detroit? And then you completely glossed over the fact that Bedrock/Quicken/Dan Gilbert is a huge contributor to how Detroit got itself moving again
Bingo! You can always tell when a narrative or writers are not from the Detroit area of southeastern Michigan. The problems with Detroit were not just deindustrialization but crime and corruption as well. Crime is still high for the city and could certain be a drag on its revival.
I watched the video hoping it would explain how it started to get better but he didn’t say how he just said it got better
Worth watching… beside all the empty house all around while driving . These days lots of gap is filling up.
Who would invest in a crime filled swamp?
@@silentmajority8365 Have you ever been? People who only get information from the mainstream media and YT videos do themselves a disservice.
Go and meet people where they stand and live, then come back and give nuance opinion.
That's in every major city
@@frankbj1152 yeah but what's the point comparing Detroit to a typical major city. What's interesting is how it was bankrupt a decade ago and is climbing out of the pit. Obviously it's no new york (yet)
I appreciate you bringing attention to the decline and rebirth of our magnificent city. It's good to see it portrayed positively, even though there are still a lot of obstacles to overcome. This helps shift the perception of the city from one of a dangerous, abandoned metropolis to one that is making a comeback. It will, in my opinion, revert to its former glory as a magnificent metropolis.
After the pandemic, working from home allowed me to move to Detroit, from Chicago. I bought a five bedroom historical home for 330k.
I could never afford this in Chicago, and I love being part of the regrowth here.
Love My City born and raised and live in Detroit!!! Its history is very overlooked sometimes this video explained perfecrly 👌
One thing you forgot to mention is the opening of the long-overdue Gordie Howe International Bridge, which will open probably the middle of 2025. This new bridge will eliminate a severe bottleneck of trade between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, and given the massive amount of goods trade between Detroit and Windsor, it could transform Detroit into one of the biggest goods trans-shipment centers in the world, bringing in many thousands of new jobs into the city itself.
Detroit is improving from decades of decay, but it's got so much work that needs to be done to be "good" again, at least if you comparing how the city was in its peak. So much of the city still has empty land, & abandon buildings to fill in. The population is only 600,000, it's peak was 1.8 million, it's got a long way to go to fill all that population back in. Other then buses does Detroit even have public transit? Barely. I hope Detroit does continue to grow and improve but it will take decades I think.
Why do you need to fill it in and grow? Just transform it from big city to a medium size city and be happy with it. You don’t need millions of people to be in it to be a good place. Get rid of those abandoned houses, unused utility grid, streets, let the nature come back and live among it. Cities around the world are fighting so bad to have free space, but there is none left! This is such an opportunity to build a green city and everyone is just not getting it.
@@yaroslavkobezskyi that is a option, but Detroit still then has a lot of work to do then. If they were to turn the land into park space, new forests, new trails & bike paths that could be great...but how much of it currently is abandon empty lots with just over grown weeds exc.
@@jameschampken2660 I mean, if you plant specific trees there you don’t need to cut grass anymore. How often do we cut grass in the forest? And then removing pavement and rocks underneath you can reuse that elsewhere. The abandoned electric grid still needs maintenance as well as plumbing and cable, getting rid of it will save money in a long term.
@yaroslavkobezskyi it doesn't need to "grow" but it definitely does need to fill in. Even tho the city proper only has 600k, the metro has over 4 million. It should attract people from the suburbs to the city. And theres empty buildings that need new owners, as well as green space. Then it needs to improve public transit and walking/cycling infrastructure
Across The Globe, I really liked this video! I subscribed too!
Thanks!
@@Acrosstheglobechannelgreat video I didn't know that my family is from Canada the bad part about it is I don't know the government of Canada and how it is if you are low income. I was adopted and have been living in poverty all my life
@@AcrosstheglobechannelI am disabled but I was living in Chicago during Covid 19
Good to bad to good again. Probably not. Good to bad to stabilized. Probably.
And yes, I did read the entire bankruptcy filing in 2014. Thousands of pages and a great document of years of neglect.
Im Happy for Detroit. Michigan needs a strong city, which hopefully Detroit can become. But if 1940-50 Detroit was good than it has a very long way to go currently.
I was ten, during the 67 riot. My mom was a domestic worker (in the suburbs) and a janitor at a nearby second job. She went to work, the day after the event started. She got worried and asked to go home, because she had a child left alone. She was told that she couldn’t drive back into a riot. They added that if she left, she would be fired. She was away for three days. At the time, we rented a room, in the basement of a house off Eight Mile Road and Wyoming Avenue. Crazy times!
It’s definitely turning itself around, slowly but surely. The surrounding neighborhoods are still pretty bad for a few miles, but the downtown is definitely coming around. Hopefully in another couple decades the growth spreads to the immediate surrounding communities.
Take him to Detroit!
Japan and Germany didn't pay less than US labor. German autoworkers were paid more and were FAR more unionized, and the difference between the Japanese workers and the highest paid German workers was about $1/hr. Just the currency exchange vastly favored Japan for a long time.
Actually, greedy companies and Outsourced our jobs to China and every little A hole.
In the world.
Trump Exposed these Sell us out for a dime. politicians who had their hands out at everywhere you turned.
And Japanese CEO pay was only eight times average worker pay. In the US, CEO pay was 400 times average worker pay. Now it's about quadrupled what it was in 1980.
I went to Wayne starting in 2013 when Detroit was at its very lowest. It's INCREDIBLE what has happened in just ten years.
Still trash 😂😂
@jaycee11145 less trash than a lot of big cities I've been to.
The population is finally resolved to forego the past,in some ways,it was a who gives a sh-t attitude. Now Mayor Duggan and big financial contributors,Dan Gilbert,Rocket Mortgage,Dave Bing just to name a few have brought hope back,it may not take but it’s better than not trying. Don’t forget about the Gordie Howe bridge,that could be a significant boost to the entire region.
It gets REAL @ 5:35 mark 🎯💯🫴🏼🇵🇷 Great Documentary 👍🏼🥇✨ Thank you with GRATITUDE.
Yes it has Detroit always has it good and bad but always find a way to stay strong and I am glad to be born and raised in Detroit
13:35 are you kidding me? The District Detroit has been a total bust. All that was actually built was the hockey arena and a bunch of surface parking lots. Areas directly across from the arena that were supposed to be new housing or hotel have remained fenced off gravel lots with nothing done.
HBO Real Sports did a segment in 2019 on this and there has been numerous news articles about all the broken promises.
How did your team not even do the slightest bit of research to check if any press releases from when the arena proposal was announced actually were built?
they are building aparments and affordable housing just look at the website
Huh? Not what I see
@samanthamorris2744 and how many of them have been built? How many have started construction?
Shiny renderings mean nothing. The Illitch family has released many of those since the 90s only for absolutely nothing to become of them.
Plus the video stated the district brought all kinds of housing and retail as if it had already been built. That is verifiably false no matter what, even if these latest proposals do get built in the future.
14:45 great shot of Detroit there
Canada, also know as South Detroit 😂
What part is save to buy a house ?
May Detroit continue to rise! 🎶Youre the God of this city, You are! Bless this land, Lord as its people turn to You!
MLK ultra
@@silentmajority8365 Funny how when for the first time in decades a black isn't mayor that the city starts improving right away
@@erkuza9220 Imagine them all relocated out of America
@erkuza9220 Imagine the country without them
@@silentmajority8365y’all are racist that is unacceptable
Nice video i have subscribed
Showing model-Ts while talking about 2008? I'm confused.
Shout out tech town and Forbes under 30 for hosting me. I love my city ❤️ 313
I love my city! Born & Raised.
Hey that iron works company was where my house is today 😂😂
Detroit is mow a top emerging start up evo system! Cool 😎 go Detroit!!! The comeback kid!.
They need to rebuild Cooley High !!!!!!!
DETROIT HERE AGAIN STAY GRITTY ✌️ THE MAYOR HERE IS DOING THE BEST ANYONE HAS EVER DONE HERE.. BEEN HERE 54 YEARS.
Shame they are thinking about tearing down most of the Ren Cen for absolutely no reason. Perfectly good buildings but ol Danno has his own plans. Destroy an iconic structure for whatever his goals are.
Everybody praising the investments of these millionaires in the city, while the neighorhoods crumble and violence increase.
I have been born and raised in Detroit my entire life I encourage everybody to do not believe the hype just when you paint over a piece of crap it's still a piece of crap. Internal problems that's really going on in the city. Is looking good but it's still bad at the same time and that's just the truth
Hopefully in the future Detroit will be like Detroit Become Human
Not sure we should go that far
oh God Let’s hope not! 😆
2038 its possible lol
Davide Cagee
Your choice of photos and footage within specific phases of Detroit’s decline is strange. You show drone shots of what Woodward Ave looks like today. Why not show how bad it looked from 2000 to 2015?
Just as they extended city limits and annexed land, now they need to pull back the city limits.
Detroit isn’t good again. Downtown is much better than it was 30 years ago, but crime is still high and schools are still shit
ok, and Chicago is utopia right?
@@GoBlue0492 Not at all..lol.
I’m glad Detroit is doing well. I live in the region and unfortunately Detroit won’t become a big great city unless they adopt rapid public transit in and out of the city. The whole region is so car dependent. It’s stunting it’s growth.
Unfortunately unions played a very large roll in Detroit's downfall. UAW prevented car companies from being competitive during hard times in the automotive sector. As a result the big three kept lowering the quality of their cars, in an effort to reduce costs, while paying workers very high salaries they could not afford. The result was more and more manufacturing was relocating to regions with lower incomes and eventual bankruptcy pressures. City worker unions also profited greatly on the backs of the city, aligning with politicians who promised them golden handshakes, excessive pay raises and very large pension plans. These golden pension plans ended up crippling the city's ability to afford to maintain services, like police, city maintenance, parks and other services. Even though Detroit had one of the highest crime rates, it also had one of the lowest numbers of on duty police personnel. Once the city was no longer able to maintain itself there was a large push by residents to relocate to better run suburbs. It was politicians who ran the city into the ground. It was the city unions that cried the loudest when the city went bankrupt 8:30 . Not because they cared about Detroit, but they were about to lose their incredibly golden pensions. Now that the city is no longer on the hook for these ridiculous promises the city has been slowly rebuilding itself. Even though the car manufacturing is almost gone, new businesses are sprouting up, as the city invites new investment to rebuild the economy.
Is that smog in the vintage photos and video?
For all the people watching Detroit only looks pretty right now because of Dan Gilbert and nobody or nothing else make no mistake about it.
@Detroit_Playa:
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bad leaders ruined city, now its recovering.
Thanks So Much
Your only showing by casinos and stadiums, what about the rest of the city, what u show is like 1% of the city...
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Shocking to see the state of Detroit
What’s up with Dearborn…?
Getting like Detroit
allahu akbar
To reboot Detroit financially, (short term) economically (but in the long run for the better!!!!), most importantly of ALL, socially, i don't see why those that run the City embark of a MASSIVE regeneration programme focusing on the demolition & then clean up operation of ALL the abandoned homes/entire neighbours & redundant infrastructure that clearly needs raising to the ground. THINK of the labour (job creation & certain professional skills needed) for such a task.
Once completed, "yes" there will be A LOT of barren land, or better put, the City of Detroit has just earned itself a MASSIVE land bank. However & NOW there is NOTHING there that once stood, surely the crime rate would drop substantially. Temporarily, give the land back to nature. Hence why I initially said, "short term economically". What's left, is what's left. For those people that are NOW left in the wilderness & with their homes (because they didn't need demolishing), as some kind of compensation, maybe the Federal & local Government(s) look into allowing those home owners the opportunity to buy land (within reason) at a discounted rate. Many of these people may NEED to not only retrain themselves (no pun intended) in the field of agriculture, but because they are NOW having to live & work much closer with nature, maybe this MIGHT eventually trigger a much more positive mentality & vibe within the City? Surely, agriculture (eventually) produced by LOCAL people, will help the remaining & existing LOCAL economy?
With time & before, the thought of another brick being laid, City officials should have brought themselves, THE TIME, to NOW just sit back & THINK about any NEW "development" projects, mooted short or long term, within the City of Detroit. However crucially & most importantly, what businesses & industries the City of Detroit welcome & align themselves with, for the future.
How could they ever forget how the City once went from (quite literally) "boom to bust" in little under 100 years, if that. The suggestion(s) seem very simplistic & in some cases, extreme. However, you can only play the game of life with the cards your currently left holding........
5he import8ng 9f Japanese cars caused the closing of many automobile plants and auto executives refusal to mak I e fuel efficiant and smaller cars.
The automtive industry was the lifeblood of Detroit !!!!.
When they star building good reliable cars in NA tiene I will buy one again. Until then only Toyota
Detroit is not good now please stop telling people that it is good as you endanger others lives if they believe you and go to Detroit unwittingly.
lol what? youre a liar. Anyone go on google maps street view and go to downtown detroit and see how things have changed in the last 10 years
"You Aren't Uplifting Or Hopeful Person!!!"That's What Needs To Stop!!!"Bad Mouthing Other Urban Cities Suffer From Some Of The Same Problems!!!"But They Local Press Doesn't Bad Mouth The Cities They Work In Publicly Or Written!!!"
"It Was Many Many People Here In The City!!!"The Riots Happened In Many Cities Civil Unrest We Had A Double Edge Sword Of A Riot In Detroit!!!"It Was A Love Hate Marriage Going On!!!"😢😢😢
Detroit is a multifaceted city for sure not only is it the crotch of Michigan it is also the armpit of America.
Detroit change in demographics is also a big reason
The growth is pushing them further away from the city center. They are slowly starting to spill into the suburbs bordering detroit, and slowly destroying those communities, just like they did to detroit. It's like a slow moving virus, slowly destroying 1 suburb at a time.
Its the only reason. Metro Detroit is wealthy, thats where white people went and took their business with them.
are you a bot? I see you commenting on every youtube video
Nah Whites leave, take their businesses with them and Blacks are left cause its affordable and everyone always blames them yet it's like we forget Jim Crow era and did anyone really expect Black people to own businesses in White America? Now that it's bouncing back with the same majority Black, whites want to take credit again.
15:36 A video should be created to explore why homicide has become so prevalent in Detroit. While I understand that systemic racism can push individuals into the black market, how does that lead to committing murder unless it's a result of a drug deal gone wrong or the actions of psychopaths?
The murder situation is interesting when you compare it to property crime, which is the typical benchmark for crimes of desperation.
The simple answer is, murder rate is directly related to gang violence. The size of the city and its infrastructure make it difficult to police, leading to prevalent open air drug dealing. Gangs fight over territory, tons of vacant land makes murder easier to get away with. More development makes for safer cities, so long as the police are empowered to act.
My favorite thing about Detroit is its lack of an ostentatious cathedral downtown. My least favorite thing about Detroit is 2 things: 1) Some kind of greenbelt network/bike trail/interconnected parkways system, and, 2) Significant public sculpture commemorating its history as a frontier outpost and celebrating its Indian history. Wall murals don't count. That's just graffiti. The meager collection of downtown trinket-level public art is shameful and embarrassing and uninspiring.
ask any business owner what the regulatory environment is like in Detroit.. Detroit does not want Mom and pop businesses here in the city.
We are not out of the woods yet.
In 1950, Detroit was the 4th largest city in America, Behind only New York, Chicago, and San Francisco.
A person can put the blame on Corps & their decisions. That is a simple excuse & mighty handy. That excuse makes good press. Some of that blame must rest also on the citizens of any city. How those folks conduct themselves, publicly & privately. Who do those folks elect to public office play a big part. What type of folks make up the population of that city ie; education levels, socio/ economic level, history of beneficiary, civic pride. When those factors are decreased & there are axes to grind against society combined with a don't give a damm attitude, then that populous must share part of the blame for their demise. No one should be given a pass & blame shifted to nameless, faceless other factors. That is a cop out & responsiability shifted to salve egos.
Puritan Ave born and raised the city fasure becoming livable again
Politics were the primary reason for Detroit's downfall. Democrats largely had the correct policies (excluding racism) up until the 60s... Workers rights, breaking up the trusts, pro private sector unions, laws strengthening the middle class were all great policies under Democratic administrations. Once LBJ's great society programs were enacted it became clear the Democrats were the party of Marxism amd the elites. The Democrat party moved further left and you saw the fruits of that in Detroit over the last several decades and can see the downfall today in California, Portland, and New York. Democrat policies largely do not work and their incessant belief that throwing more money and government at problems will solve them is manifested in failing cities like Detroit.
What policies are you talking about? NYC had Republican governor’s and Mayors. Policies that made cities less friendly to pedestrians and affordable housing cause downfalls of cities. Wealth disparities are the biggest issues. It’s often caused by people trying to make cities into suburbs by being more car friendly (causing higher costs of living ) rather than people friendly which would lower costs of living. I don’t think Republicans do any better. Most do worse. But yes, many democrats also miss the mark and cater to the rich with cars. I think getting car catering out of cities would help the most. Cities should have affordable public transit and people should be able to work and live in the same place at a reasonable cost. This is why cities started existing and should continue to cater to those living there. Not cars. People.
@@JDMimeTHEFIRST Restrictive zoning laws are an example policy. I'm not sure there's any data to substantiate your claim about cars... However it's very clear that Democrat run cities and states are economically falling behind republican-controlled areas. Also because you brought it up... Democrat run areas have the greatest wealth inequality; this is a widely distributed statistic.
DEE TWAH!
I think Boston is heading towards being a shitty suburb city. They keep catering to drivers and ignoring the fact it’s a city. Hopefully, we start building affordable housing again without parking lots and garages. People don’t need cars in cities? We don’t need to house cars. We need to house people! We need people to be able to live and work in the same place (you know, the whole point of a city).
Amos Walker. One of the best private eyes in modern American literature. By Loren D. Estleman
Wife born and grew up there 50's and 60's.
Meanwhile, Flint still has undrinkable water.
Not true
So much this talk about racism in Detroit is ridiculous, racism went both ways and still does. Can’t complain about “white flight” in one hand then talk about “gentrification” in the other.
Well when you set the entire economy of a city on one sector... that's what happened
You really didn't try very hard with this did you ?
Ford bought the Central station 5 years ago and is just finishing up (to be opened in June) a $1 Billion dollar rebuild which
is a major reason why Corktown is going nuts right now.
The owner of Rocket Mtg & The owner of Little Caesars have spent Billions downtown and this should hammer home how little
work you did -
Not 1 pic of the Detroit Lions stadium - Built by the Ford family BEFORE the Little Caesars stadium was even considered and, yet, spitting
distance from the Tigers stadium.
Just lazy......
I have a whole channel that captures the historic events happening in the D all the time if you want to see what it looks like now
On a sidenote, you can tell this was AI generated content. Come on several and you only give one point lol
GO LIONS 🦁!
Ive worked at Greektown since 2009. I love it and I will retire from there. Also, the Lions winning a super bowl would mean more for the city of detroit than any other franchise in america.
Greektown is Greektown in name only anymore
Detroit is so back
Detroi
Get out of the gentrified downtown area and you'll see the real Detroit. It isn't pretty.
Maybe were you went ,don't go in the other aeras much like mexico.
Thank you for not being a sanctuary city.
Concentration in car manufacturing, white and business flight,redlining, gang and criminal activity were contributing factors in the decline. Gentrification and crime reform are drivers for the revival. Memphis experienced this on a smaller level. However Memphis leaders must consult with Detroit on how they were able to reduce crime.
pretty simple. COMMUNITY driven work. The mayor funded multiple community groups to help reduce crime and the participating neighborhoods and the results are great.
@@brasp we are not at that stage yet. We are still debating about no bail and longer sentences.
please show me where no bail works, I’ll wait. No bail policies would literally destroy the city and state for that matter. No bail is a joke.
@@DemonEdge82I never said I was in favor of no bail. I said it is being debated, so don’t wait too long.
While they mention race riots etc. that lead to the downfall. They forgot to mention that immigrants coming into detroit in the 90s from middle east and mexico and other places had a huge impact on Detroit's revival, buying and fixing houses and neighborhoods that were dilapidated, starting businesses, protecting their neighborhoods.
Good point.
what happened to the beautiful Detroit of the 1950s? The 60s! That's what happened! The 1960s came along with the race riots and poverty and high crime!
Most of Detroit's Crime rates are with in smaller ghetto areas within Detroit, I would still go out with my Pistol on hand but it does seem to get better.
You are only looking at about 10 square miles of it. Take a look at the remaining 130 square miles and you will reach a different conclusion.
Downtown is doing good. Saw this a few times. Will outside of the downtown rise? Hopfuly.
Oh yes, every tourist should visit Detroit 🙄
How could the crime rate NOT fall in Detroit following the exit of so much of its inner city population, after most of the houses collapsed???? I doubt that there is a "comeback". They said this many times before but it never really happens for Detroit. The city and its suburbs continue to be hollowed out by ghettos and the junkification of houses. Crime still stubbornly high.
The comeback is vastly overstated .
It' s true areas are improving but as a percentage of the city as a whole very low. Crime did ease last year. One reason were a couple of rhe worst areas were targeted with special task forces to go after the worst offenders and gang bangers. Another reason never talked about is Detroit criminals have really begun targeting suburbs. Several bordering communities are seeing huge increases of violent crime with the majority being Detroiters. While it is Detroiters those crimes are not part of Detroit crime statistics.
No surprise there! They simply ignore the crime committed by Detroiters in suburban areas, then call it evidence of "crime reduction". Detroit will never have a comeback, it's just too far gone.
How Detroit Went From Good to Bad to Worst .
there is a lot of misinformation in this
I ❤ love detroit my home city a great place to live and work❤❤❤😊😃😀