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I live less than a mile from my job downtown, and ended up hospitalized this winter while walking home because the city still doesn't take care of the streets (
by werber 8y ago
I live less than a mile from my job downtown, and ended up hospitalized this winter while walking home because the city still doesn't take care of the streets (let alone the sidewalks). The downtown core and some adjacent neighborhoods (Corktown, Midtown, Lafayette Park, Brush Park, Cass Corridor, among a few others) are rapidly changing, but it feels like outside of the T shape that those neighborhoods make ( https://mogodetroit.org/system-map/ https://mogodetroit.org/system-map/ , the bike share system doesn't extend outside of this) you're in a completely different city. When I go for a walk at night and there isn't a weekday sports event, the downtown is still incredibly quiet and mostly empty. I have this constant nagging guilt about the revitalization of Detroit being for people like me (young white tech professional) and not the people who stayed and didn't give up on the city, because I had no faith I'd ever be back a decade ago. The artsier people I know are already moving to the edges of the T into places like Hubbard Farms and the North End, and it feels inevitable that people will be displaced by the "rebirth".