Comments on: If you rebuild it, they will come. Part 1

By: If You Rebuild It, They Will Come, part 1 | Generation Y Michigan

If You Rebuild It, They Will Come, part 1 | Generation Y Michigan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:58:05 +0000

[...] essay was originally published on Pixelgawker.com on [...]

By: sstrack

sstrack — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:49:38 +0000

It is great to think that demolishing/rebuilding/renovating buildings in Detroit will help in bringing the city back to being…well to being a real city again. But, it’s always going to be a chicken or the egg question when it comes to Detroit. Which influx comes first? the people or the businesses? People don’t want to move there since there are no businesses and business don’t want to take the risk because there are no people (the people that are living in Detroit by and large, probably aren’t considered to be worth the investment of businesses to move there in the first place.)

Personally speaking, there is nothing that makes me want to set foot in Detroit, much less move there.

By: Detroit, MI | Cities x Design

Detroit, MI | Cities x Design — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:07:50 +0000

[...] Local regeneration projects are mushrooming in Detroit. Last month, the Taubman Center (former GM Technical Center, pictured above), in downtown Detroit, reopened its doors as the new design campus for the College for Creative Studies. The Argonaut building, designed by Albert Kahn, is 80 years old and offers 760,000 square-foot of space. This adaptive re-use project not only intends to educate students from middle, high school, undergraduate and graduate levels, it also hopes to transform the economy of Southeast Michigan and renew Detroit. The Taubman site created 200 new jobs and will bring more than 2000 people to the area on a daily basis, giving an opportunity to provide new customers for local businesses. If you would like to learn more, Chad Reichert, our ‘guide’ while in Detroit, shares his thoughts about the city and how its local community is taking creative steps towards recovery, in this written piece: If you rebuilt it, they will come [...]

By: colleen hill

colleen hill — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:29:15 +0000

I think this post is a very timely considering the article I linked to yesterday on our twitter and facebook page. Take that David Frum! The Taubman Design Center is a center for education AND art in Detroit.

Incase anyone missed it, the article I was referencing can be read here:
http://www.freep.com/article/20090806/BLOG2503/90806027/What-killed-Detroit?-&GID=VzI7WFOJvW31hTx5sDJ4DN45ThxLpW3bX5P6/sFCKYA=