4th generation Detroiter here. The murals and commissioned graffiti around the city are very, very cool. The Dequindre cut alone is an outdoor art museum. Wit

4th generation Detroiter here. The murals and commissioned graffiti around the city are very, very cool. The Dequindre cut alone is an outdoor art museum. With that said, though, all the cool street art in the world isn't going to bring this city back. Investment and land development will though and that means higher rents. I hate to see what is going on in Eastern Market for instance. What outsiders and visitors may not realize is how geographically big Detroit is. Boston, Manhattan, and San Francisco would all inside the city limits of Detroit, for instance. Detroit is safe in pockets. Downtown, midtown, cork-town, belle isle, Eastern Market, Hamtramck and a few blocks on the east side (and others) are all ok to go visit for the suburbanites. But you don't cross from one to the other without your car. I have heard it said that Detroit isn't a city that was forgotten, Detroit is a city that just doesn't give a damn. Go 1 block outside of any of those pockets and you'll see what I mean. My dream is those pockets touch, and we get a subway or some real mass transit and we'll feel like a whole city. Here's what it's like to enjoy the city as a suburbanite. You get in your car, drive straight to your destination (probably downtown) go to your event, maybe hit a nearby bar or restaurant, then get back to your car before it's too late and drive out of Detroit back to the safe neighborhood you live in outside of the city limits. It sucks. It has sucked for a long time and it's just now getting better. You can see it happening, downtown and midtown are basically contiguous now. We have 3 new sports stadiums and downtown is actually fun now. I know it sucks that rent is going up, but that is a small side effect in my opinion. Riots in the 60s, systemic, chronic, oppressive corruption (including an ex mayor who is still in federal jail), the city declared bankruptcy a short 6 years ago and it wasn't that long ago you could literally golf the length of Detroit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9uzDelNvDg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9uzDelNvDg I'm a big street art fan, but, I for one welcome our new landlord overlords.