Comments on: Detroit’s Rebirth?

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:45:39 +0000

What a neat article! I’ll be going to Detroit for the first time later this month, and a friend mentioned something about a budding artist community. Can’t wait to check it out!

By: syed

syed — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:53:04 +0000

nice article..

By: Milan Stevanovich

Milan Stevanovich — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:04:33 +0000

The Russell Industrial Center is a wonderful Microcosm of Detroit, and becoming one of the countries largest Creative Complexes.

People are beginning to fly in from all corners of the globe to check out the Artisans and Entrepreneurs in the Russell.

A Collection of 2.2 Million sq ft of Industrial space created by Albert Kahn in 1919, which is now home to over 375 artisans/entrepreneurs and the coolest events/parties and the People’s Arts Festival! A Real Industrial – Urban Arts Fest…

By: Stéphane

Stéphane — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:52:45 +0000

great article.
Quite appropriately, Detroit’s City Motto is: “Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus” – Latin for, “We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes” – [source: wikipedia.org]

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:44:57 +0000

Uh, I’ve lived in Detroit for the last 8 years. You’ve always been able to get cheap deals on Detroit houses–it’s just getting more media play now. I’d love to see this post-indstrial metamorphosis happen, but I’m not banking on it. Berlin is the capital of Germany and has 3.5 million residents. Detroit has less than a million and thousands are leaving every month. The city and suburbs are bogged down in highly polarized racial politics. E.g., a few years ago when Richard Florida made the same comments more or less–that a creative class of artists and gays can transform a place–then mayor Kwame Kilpatrick made some homophobic response.

It’s always been cheap to live in the desert, hasn’t it? And that’s what Detroit is–a unique urban wilderness.

By: Heavyset » Detroit, Australian Libraries, Processing and A Place Where Things are Happening

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:35:07 +0000

[...] elsewhere), it seems that amidst the reports of $100 homes, Detroit is poised for renaissance. Via PSFK: Detroit has been in economic decline for some time now, and the current recession has made things [...]

By: Piers Fawkes

Piers Fawkes — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:01:11 +0000

Love the concept. Great spot.

By: Decay, Racoons and Detroit « think demux

Decay, Racoons and Detroit « think demux — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:43:48 +0000

[...] Over at PSFK they’re asking if Detroit is “the next Berlin”. [...]

By: volonte williams

volonte williams — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:22:22 +0000

More power to those who have the vision and courage to tackle new fronitiers. It always seems to start the same way-artist move in, then gays, followed by investors, then students,and then the press covers it again and now you have a chic part of town enticing the urbanites and Yuppies. We have seen it over and over again. Think New York in the 80’s San Francisco’s Mission district in the late 90’s, Buffalo’s Elmwood Village in the early 2000’s.

Can’t wait to see Detroit on CNN 5 years from now for being such a cool and influential city.

By: Dale

Dale — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:48:54 +0000

What’s happening with the people who have been evicted from these homes now selling for $100? If they can’t buy them back, what an insult. Any stories of buyers giving the houses back to previous owners?

One note in comparing this to Berlin… did you know West Germans were paid to live in Berlin for 3 years – to hold the fort so to speak? Related to as a small island in a solid Eastern bloc, West Berliners contributed to developing a completely unique city that understandably attracted unique people from all over the world. People quite possibly familiar with living on islands… not necessarily of the geographical kind.

By: Motorless

Motorless — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:42:38 +0000

Well…maybe. Only time will tell.