Enclaves & the true future of Detroit (Southfield, Wayne: middle-class, houses)

[Observ3]

We already have relatively affluent "enclaves," pretty much in Detroit, as most know. I guess these are primarily downtown, the Wayne State area, Corktown, etc... and others. Typically, they are connected via the highway systems.

Most see them as "white," but in reality they are middle-class, as they do tend to attract those who are culturally affluent of diverse backgrounds, including whites, blacks, arabs, indians, asians, etc...

I was wondering if it's a matter of time, given the downward depression of the middle-class (due to many reasons, but it's another topic) that there might be eventual "gated communities" (gated putting it lightly, if funded for gentrification purposes, "gates" could mean walls, perhaps not as big as the Israeli/Palestinian Westbank apartheid walls, but still... possibly as big as highway brick sound walls at least), which would include land value manipulation set at at least 55k or more (maybe as low as 40k if the middle-class continues it's downward spiral) and maybe as high as 500k even, for larger properties).

Areas picked could be run down, with little population or home ownership records, with federal grants (again for gentrification and economic prosperity) such "gated" communities could bulldoze the unusable buildings, use affluent committees to sanction eminent domain against certain rundown homes, or drug houses (or homes with obvious drug users living in them) to rezone for commercial development by using eminent domain to bring in self-sustained businesses, but still be near highways for outside work.

If either the Woodward, Telegraph, Southfield, I-75, etc... any of those areas receive an actual continuous flow of said communities we could be looking at a true connection between the better developed downtown areas and the suburbs themselves.

[froglipz]