Detroit steps away from its Midwestern peers, other than Chicago (~5.4 million).
Cleveland, Columbus, cinci, Indy, St. Louis, Kansas City, Milwaukee all in the same 1.4-1.8 million range. Minneapolis ~2.5 million.
@patrickberzai@Joepal86 4/5 largest private sector employers of Windsor are automotive, the other being the casino right on the river. 2/5 are Chrysler and Ford.
@patrickberzai@Joepal86 It’s showing a contiguous connected economic region, obviously not a unified government. Buffalo Niagara is another example. You know suburbs of a principal city in a metro area don’t share municipal bonds, right? Since they’re separate municipalities.
@patrickberzai@Joepal86 Yes, and is a part of the Detroit area economic market. Shared labor pool, consumer spending market, auto industry, supply chain. Directly adjacent and integrated.
@mich_enjoyer@shoesonplease There is no “slush fund”. It’s tax increment financing, reclaiming a portion of the future delta increase of tax revenue, post development.
Detroit has an ascendant spirit and is a beautiful city
The belief that it's a fallen place beyond hope is flatly wrong
It has the infrastructure and talent to be an engine of American civilization on a new scale
The city simply moved to the metro suburbs.
2nd largest metro in Midwest behind CHI.
Metro - 4,392,041
CSA - 5,325,219
Detroit-Windsor area - 5,976,595
Yes legacy industry doesn’t pay like it did when it first started but let’s not act like Detroit randomly disappeared, it’s bigger than ever before.
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@JTAlexander Detroit is the 2nd largest metro area in the Midwest behind only Chicago. The metro population is at roughly its peak now. The city simply moved to the suburbs. A trend that is now reversing with reurbanization and Detroit city proper population gain for 3 years in a row.
@michiganstan25 If this holds Detroit is looking on pace for a pretty large drop in national standings. Out of the top 3 and 5 since 2023, now possibly well out of the top 10.
@joeguillen@BacktoDetroit People mover 2 way line connection to Michigan central ?? Make fort/Cass or Times Square or water square stations into a transfer station to the new line.
Immigration patterns too. For example, most of metro Detroits immigrants did not move to city proper since 1960s. While pre-1950s immigrants moved to the city.
Immigrant > city
Versus
Immigrant > suburb
Detroit will be different than NYC here but still most likely an increase of immigrant direct to suburbs instead trend across the nation.
@evanwoodbery 40k ppl exit the stadium and essentially have 1 legitimate bar option (tin roof) within 1-2 blocks. Of course the line will wrap around the neighboring surface parking lots. Demand is high. Build 6 more tin roofs, NOW.