This is awful. Really, really shows that the Powers that Be in Detroit still don’t understand what will and won’t fix Detroit. A $444 million hockey statium?
Detroit is all about Big Projects — from the Renaissance Center to the Poletown factory, plus a long list of smaller projects (like this Whole Foods project). And they haven’t worked, because Detroit is missing in the basic fundamentals of an educated (or work-ready to any degree) workforce, and general infrastructure of all kinds. (Police response times average 58 minutes!) And they won’t work, and will impede Detroit fixing its fundamentals.
(More later but — really, Detroit? $444 million? If you’re going to issue bonds, spend them on something more useful than a hockey stadium!)
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