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View Poll Results: Which Rust Belt cities have the most potential?
Detroit 12 11.88%
Cleveland 14 13.86%
Pittsburgh 38 37.62%
Buffalo 3 2.97%
Rochester 4 3.96%
St. Louis 11 10.89%
Cincinnati 9 8.91%
Baltimore 10 9.90%
Voters: 101. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 04-12-2011, 05:43 PM
 
Location: Miami, FL
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We all know that in the 50s and 60s all the industrial cities in the US started falling apart and declining after the industry moved somewhere else. However, some of these cities are trying very hard to reclaim at least some of their former glory. Which has the best chance?
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Old 04-12-2011, 05:45 PM
 
Location: Toronto
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Cincinatti?
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Old 04-12-2011, 06:21 PM
 
Location: Cleveland, OH
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I say tie between Cleveland and Pittsburgh.

Both have found working ways to revitalize their cores and neighborhoods right outside of Downtown.

Not the mention, both are using smart tactics at expanding their academic centers: Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon and Pitt. Cleveland: Case Western Reverse/University Circle and Cleveland State University.
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Old 04-12-2011, 08:19 PM
 
Location: Miami, FL
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I say tie between Cleveland and Pittsburgh.

Both have found working ways to revitalize their cores and neighborhoods right outside of Downtown.

Not the mention, both are using smart tactics at expanding their academic centers: Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon and Pitt. Cleveland: Case Western Reverse/University Circle and Cleveland State University.
That makes a really good point, Pittsburgh is attracting many young people from around the country because of the colleges, same with Cleveland to a slightly lesser extent.
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Old 04-12-2011, 08:21 PM
 
Location: northern Vermont - previously NM, WA, & MA
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I knew Pittsburgh would carry this thread from the get go. Pittsburgh has always had a big advantage with its educational endowments. It's also aesthetically the prettiest Rustbelt City. Fortunately Mr. Carnegie had a bleeding heart before crossing over thus Pittsburgh benefiting. Maybe we can sell passes into heaven to Wall Street and corporate billionaires to give Detroit and Cleveland a real renaissance.
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Old 04-12-2011, 08:36 PM
 
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
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I knew Pittsburgh would carry this thread from the get go. Pittsburgh has always had a big advantage with its educational endowments. It's also aesthetically the prettiest Rustbelt City. Fortunately Mr. Carnegie had a bleeding heart before crossing over thus Pittsburgh benefiting. Maybe we can sell passes into heaven to Wall Street and corporate billionaires to give Detroit and Cleveland a real renaissance.

Caphillsea77, don't bat an eye more than once ... Cleveland is certainly becoming a very major success story with it's ongoing and startling renaissance, most particularly in it's city centre ...



YouTube - Greater Cleveland Partnership "Turning the Corner"






YouTube - Downtown Cleveland Is Moving
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Old 04-12-2011, 08:43 PM
 
Location: Cleveland bound with MPLS in the rear-view
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POTENTIAL: Detroit. It's lost almost everything and has fallen the furthest from its peak. If it lived up to its potential, it would be the most remarkable. Cleveland and Pittsburgh have the most potential in terms of actual likelihood of turning it around and making the biggest strides and contribution to the country, and it's already happening.
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Old 04-12-2011, 08:46 PM
 
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
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POTENTIAL: Detroit. It's lost almost everything and has fallen the furthest from its peak. If it lived up to its potential, it would be the most remarkable. Cleveland and Pittsburgh have the most potential in terms of actual likelihood of turning it around and making the biggest strides and contribution to the country, and it's already happening.

What a profoundly accurate statement, particularly concerning both
Cleveland and Pittsburgh.

Still, I hope to see Detroit experience a wide scale renewal ... it's such
a proud and fascinating city that offers so many amenities.
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Old 04-12-2011, 09:33 PM
 
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they all have more potential than most other cities in the united states.
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Old 04-12-2011, 09:46 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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Detroit? It's already coming back if I'm not mistaken.
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