On Jan 3, 2011, at 7:49 PM, geoff wrote:
> And detroit's decline began when? Around 2000? Anything interesting happen
> then? Now instead of your usual tack of just abusing, how about you actually
> answer when the decline began because by my recollection Detroit was a
> powerful and well-functioning city all thru the 80s and at least early 90s.
A large part of Detroit was burned in the '67 riots, and was left there
to rot over the next few decades. I spent a lot of time there in the late '70s
and early '80s, and while there were some very nice areas, it was already
fairly well decayed. Anyone with money had moved out to the suburbs long before
that.
It should be noted that the most prominent building in downtown Detroit
is the "Renaissance Center", so named because it was thought it would herald
the rebirth of the downtown area. In other words, downtown had already died,
and they were trying to resurrect it.
-- Ed Leafe
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