rebuild the western market!!!

So far, Detroit is faring better than many peer cities this decade.

2020-2023 estimates:

📈Cincinnati +0.58%
📈Pittsburgh +0.09%
📉Detroit -0.92%
📉Buffalo -1.32%
📉Memphis -2.28%
📉Cleveland -2.68%
📉Milwaukee -2.74%
📉Chicago -2.98%
📉Baltimore -3.49%
📉St. Louis -6.57%

With Detroit seeing a population and economic rebound, it's worth exploring what exactly caused the city to fall so hard — because there are REALLY important lessons for a lot of other U.S. cities, some of which are making similar mistakes to Detroit and not realizing it.

Detroit City FC acquires land in Southwest Detroit to build soccer-specific stadium.

📰: detcityfc.com/news/2024/05/1…

Scoop: Detroit City FC is planning a new stadium in Corktown crainsdetroit.com/sports-recreat…

NYT: Detroit has grown in population for the first time since 1957, and has climbed from 29th most populous city up to 26th.

'Detroit is a vibrant and growing city again'; population grows for first time since 1957 freep.com/story/news/loc…

Woah

Most of the country is neither dense nor walkable, but every state has at least a small amount of urban places. To highlight unheralded urbanism, I’m mapping the highest density Census tract in every State in descending order 🧵

Governor Gretchen Whitmer Access also means transportation. Fund public transit. It is literally the most common reason students leave or don't get access to education.

4 days apart:

Nolan Finley publishes article saying #Detroit doesn't need public #transit b/c we have highways

DetroitNews publishes article saying top #Michigan employer can't convince talent to come

Why's it so hard for leaders to connect the dots?

detroitnews.com/story/business…

Detroit pursues first citywide plan to save its historic buildings crainsdetroit.com/real-estate/de…

Is Whitmer burning bridges with the public transit folks?

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Attendance at Michigan's most popular state park continues to rise. Belle Isle attendance passed 5.5 million in 2023.

The island only hit capacity twice last year. MDNR attributes improved bike connection to the mainland and traffic flow upgrades.