Do you want to shrink Detroit?

[michigan83]

Do you want to shrink Detroit?

No... I just want to expand the rest of the state to the southeast.

[Retroit]

Originally Posted by FF-fan

What about taking some areas of the city and incorporating it into it's own towns? Like having Southwest Detroit/Mexicantown incorporating itself as it's own town. From what I can tell visiting there once, they have their own main street for shopping, assests like Clark Park, and it's one of the most stable parts of the city (IMO). Would that work, or would the city not want to let go of one of it's few intact and viable neighborhoods?

It wouldn't benefit the city to get rid of its best areas.

[Huckleberry3911948]

Originally Posted by animatedmartian

Which I somewhat I agree. I don't understand why we don't encourage more private investment.

It's pretty amazing what a corporation could do with $400 million.

i agree. however, there is a reason. if you dont measure up the corporation will can you.
if you are the government, we will give u more money when u mess up.

[animatedmartian]

Originally Posted by FF-fan

What about taking some areas of the city and incorporating it into it's own towns? Like having Southwest Detroit/Mexicantown incorporating itself as it's own town. From what I can tell visiting there once, they have their own main street for shopping, assests like Clark Park, and it's one of the most stable parts of the city (IMO). Would that work, or would the city not want to let go of one of it's few intact and viable neighborhoods?

According to Michigan annexation and de-annexation laws, if something like that were to happen, Southwest Detroit would still have to take on the burden of debt that's equivalent to how ever much land was taken from Detroit. That still pretty much leaves the other sections of Detroit in more or less the same position. In fact, it might even be worse.

If Southwest Detroit were to become it's own city, it would most likely improve, but then it would essentially become another magnet suburb to draw residents out of the still deteriorating parts of Detroit. Making it even harder for those areas to reverse their debt problem unless something drastic was put in place.

So yea, on paper, it might make sense, but in reality, it'd just make things more complicated.