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Forgot NWA. Some of these have been changing before the last decade. Others really just started in the past five years.
Yes this is true. I was thinking Wal-Mart's new corporate campus in downtown Bentonville had already been built as it was proposed a few years ago but it hasn't broken geound yet. But there seems to have been some great cultural additions to the town within the past decade that has driven an increasing share of the region's growth to Bentonville.
Detroit has vastly improved over the past decade, it’s like night and day. There is still a long way to go but it’s future hasn’t looked this bright in over 50 years.
Detroit has vastly improved over the past decade, it’s like night and day. There is still a long way to go but it’s future hasn’t looked this bright in over 50 years.
I agree. Hopefully the current economic crisis will not cause Detroit to relapse. The first thing I would expect people to save on is a new car.
Chicago was once a dirty run down city even in its core. The city has developed billions in commercial office space since 2010. Neighborhoods around the loop are expanding, becoming mixed use developments and more affordable than some other large cities. For all of its population loss, crime, etc. you would think it was dead the way it is usually described.
I don't see how Chicago makes the list of "most improved" cities in the last decade. It was already 'great' in terms of a vibrant business and entertainment downtown along with several strong core, shoulder neighborhoods. And as someone who visited Chicago several times yearly in the early 2000s into the 2000-teens, I can tell you that strong growth into formerly downtrodden areas like South Loop and the near West Side was already well under way by 2010.
The articles you note talk about the growth in new skyscrapers in the Loop. But Chicago, for well over a half century, has been THE city of super tall, super sexy skyscrapers. The fact they're getting more is really the rich getting richer and not what I would consider a sign of improvement. Plus the gist of your other 2 articles actually tend to undercut your argument -- that is, Chicago already had one of, if not the, highest racial segregation rate of any American big city, and that the growth of the Loop economy, esp in terms of tech jobs and an a greater educated workforce -- even eclipsing Chicagoland suburbs -- is opening the fissure of economic segregation leading to greater racial segregation.
If anything, I would say that given the very high, very visible increase in the murder rate (some dubbing it as "the Murder Capital of the US" although this has been happily declining in the last year or so) and greater drug/gang infiltration of wide swaths of the south and west sides of the city, an argument could be made that Chicago is regressing on a number of levels... Still it is, as it has been for many, many decades, one of the most vibrant, exciting cities in this nation (and in many ways, on the face of the earth) ...
... depending on which parts of the city you visit, that is.
Detroit will never really be down for the count. Great Lakes will be important in the future. Fresh water and global warming will make the Great Lakes boom like the Sun Belt before this century is over.
Detroit is making major strides, esp Downtown and close in neighborhoods like Midtown, Indian Village (now, I guess, referred to as the Villages) and New Center. The amount of new and repurposed buildings downtown dedicated to residential (apts/condos), hotels and retail is staggering. Bustling foot-traffic downtown, once a light trickle, even during weekdays, is now the norm.
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