Comments on: Detroit at the Brink http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/2008/12/23/detroit-at-the-brink/ The source on how we live, work and play Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:10:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: SS http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/2008/12/23/detroit-at-the-brink/comment-page-1/#comment-8974 SS Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:30:22 +0000 http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/?p=6349#comment-8974 I have to agree with Mr. Fisher's comments. Given that every major American city now has access to broadband this may be a fertile ground for startup internet companies. I see homes listed for sale at amazingly low prices. A well capitalized startup could almost buy homes and office space for its first employees. By providing interesting and challenging work to graduates of local Universities that could cause a turn-around. Find ways to bring in artists because of all the cheap housing, then the coffee shops, etc, etc. Or am I way off on this? I have to agree with Mr. Fisher’s comments. Given that every major American city now has access to broadband this may be a fertile ground for startup internet companies. I see homes listed for sale at amazingly low prices. A well capitalized startup could almost buy homes and office space for its first employees.

By providing interesting and challenging work to graduates of local Universities that could cause a turn-around.

Find ways to bring in artists because of all the cheap housing, then the coffee shops, etc, etc.

Or am I way off on this?

]]> By: Jim H http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/2008/12/23/detroit-at-the-brink/comment-page-1/#comment-8534 Jim H Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:14:15 +0000 http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/?p=6349#comment-8534 You get what you vote for. Look at their (former) mayor, and the governor and you can see why there is no hope for Detroit. You get what you vote for. Look at their (former) mayor, and the governor and you can see why there is no hope for Detroit.

]]> By: hayden fisher http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/2008/12/23/detroit-at-the-brink/comment-page-1/#comment-8453 hayden fisher Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:40:38 +0000 http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/?p=6349#comment-8453 But, Richard, as you've pointed-out many times, Detroit possesses all of the intangibles necessary to be reinvented into a really cool place. But the banks will never lend in its current environment, it's going to have to come from an enhanced SBA plan that hangs low-hanging economic development dollars out there for the entrepreneurs of all levels to come running to grab. Detroit would be a great place to launch a pilot program of the sort. But, Richard, as you’ve pointed-out many times, Detroit possesses all of the intangibles necessary to be reinvented into a really cool place. But the banks will never lend in its current environment, it’s going to have to come from an enhanced SBA plan that hangs low-hanging economic development dollars out there for the entrepreneurs of all levels to come running to grab. Detroit would be a great place to launch a pilot program of the sort.

]]> By: David J. Miller http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/2008/12/23/detroit-at-the-brink/comment-page-1/#comment-8440 David J. Miller Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:23:14 +0000 http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/?p=6349#comment-8440 pretty gruesome picture... where to start... I'd love to hear from those on the ground. pretty gruesome picture… where to start… I’d love to hear from those on the ground.

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