interesting and

[citywatch]

People complain there are no stores "in" Detroit, yet there are so many national chains across the street from Detroit serving Detroit neighborhoods (Eastland, Northland, Fairlane, Ford rd & Southfield). Look at Novi there are only two grocery stores in the city proper and about 5 siting across the street on one edge or another. This is what happens with spawl. Various communites end up serving one another. Redford has very few stores. Mostly it takes a trip to Livonia to buy something or oddly enough the Super K-Mart in Detroit.

A side note: The Super K-Mart closing at 7 Mile and Meyers lead to a sucessful Home Depot relocating from the Northland area.

[City of Motor]

Originally Posted by Coldjensens

This is very accurate. Retail is beyond bad, it is basically non-existient. I have no idea where people in Detroit find groceries.

The downtown area is neat, but it is pretty tired. Still I see groups of tourists from other countries from time to time so the tour companies must think it is worthwhile.

Detroit has a few good schools. They are magnet charter schools. One, renaissance, is excellent, one of the best schools in the state. When we visited, the kids we unusually polite nd respectful.

They shop at Aldi. There are independent stores also. Eastern Market, anybody?

[Cliffie]

Originally Posted by homersimpson

what NOT MANY PLACSE TO BUY GROCERIES! EVEN CLEVELAND HAS RETAIL!!!!!!! But not for Detroit? How many groceries. I still wonder why that Super Kmart closed on 2003?

It's because KMart went through a Chapter 11 bankruptcy and had to close a number of stores. We lost the one in Brighton Mall, too; it's a Sears and Roebuck now. I'm sure the one in Detroit must have been making low profits or it wouldn't have been closed; but it's a blow to the whole area when something like that happens. That's too many jobs to lose in a vulnerable part of the state.