Fair enough point but the irony of a lot of what you said is very telling regarding the mayor.
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Apple Announces New Downtown Detroit Store is 'Coming Soon'
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One little central area being safe in major inner cities is one thing. As soon as you venture a couple blocks outside it’s not good. They try to make these little utopia so people from miles and miles away will come spend money. The core citizenry of the cities is a completely different mess.
Regarding girls jogging around feeling safe…..Is that still the case 8 years later?
It's been getting safer since then, not less, and the area is expanding.
Where are you getting your information? I go there, routinely, and it's not a little 2-block utopia, is the vast majority of downtown.
You're using outdated info from over a decade ago.
This reeks of a paid placement to lend credibility and entice other commercial real estate. I wonder if the new Apple Store will support the self-checkout system where you can just buy and walk out without interacting with a rep? Outside of a .5 mile area centered around Quicken and maybe Little Caesars there is not much happening in Detroit. I lived there not long ago and the city is dead.
Even when part of that booming will be the sound of the Renaissance Center getting demolished?
(Though a tough situation here; both the location and obsolete buildings from the rotating-restaurant era are completely wrong for Apple. Plus a site that looks like a collection of silos is a bad corporate image and GM should be happy they're getting out.)
The Ren Cen isn’t currently planned for demolition—they plan on taking two towers out, removing a lot of the lower structure to open up the view of the river, and renovating the rest to become housing, retail, and some office space (the hotel is staying). So the Ren Cen isn’t changing in a way that affects the skyline, but a lot of the issues people have with it will change (hopefully about the time they remove I-375).
You mean during the “pandemic” with crime increasing and standards of living dropping exponentially? So, like, not safe at all? Lol.
Starbucks down the road was shut down for this very reason.
I have offices right downtown there, multiple buildings in that corridor. Detroit's problem has been, is, and foreseeably will continue to be Detroiters.
It's not ignorance, it is fact unfortunately.
There’s an Apple Store at 12 oaks in Novi if that’s any help
Chief Craig is what made downtown safe! I remember he said he wasn’t playing games and watch what happens first day he starts DPD. People laughed because detroit police were all talk and doing nothing at that point. First day on the job, city busses full of police showed up all over the city arresting endless amounts of people. He told them again he wasn’t playing. That was the beginning of detroit being a safe(er) place to be 👏
I dare say it’s safer walking around downtown Detroit these days than walking around downtown San Francisco. That says a lot.
How long until they need to replace the front doors and windows?
I was there last year for a Stars/Wings game. I still wouldn’t bring my wife and children there.
I can’t think of a single metro city in the USA that isn’t an absolute ghetto.
Yeah that would be wayyyy out of the way for sure
Has it improved much since late 2018? That was the last I went and it still felt a bit sketchy walking between the VA and Wayne State Old Main on a weekday at noon.
The property prices are proximity to family in Canada are appealing otherwise.
Is this sarcasm? How would it get looted with so many off duty officers?
No. You go a block or two in from the facades and it's the same town everyone has known for 55 plus years now. Sad but true.
