Originally Posted by animatedmartian

But then it would make the growth of retail in Detroit pretty unusual if incomes hadn't bottomed out already. Meijer wouldn't open two stores in the city if everyone was getting poorer and boutique shops wouldn't be able to grow downtown. And I don't think they'd look a measly few thousand people to base their business decisions.

Originally Posted by Retroit

Here we go again...

I ask you this: If white people hadn't "fled" to the suburbs, where would the black people live? You are aware that many white people refused to let black people move into their neighborhoods and were labeled racist for doing so. So if the white people refused to "flee" Detroit, wouldn't that have been racist?

Originally Posted by animatedmartian

Housing is being renovated. People don't do that just for fun.