Downtown Detroit is undergoing a major transformation thanks to a boom in construction projects. In fact, the city center is set to have one of the busiest years as it creates more jobs and recreational opportunities.
36 thoughts on “'Downtown Detroit is booming.' Major construction projects breathing new life into city”
Still too many surface parking lots downtown and nearby. And Im not just referring to the stuff owned by Illitch, the city needs to eliminate or drastically reduce their parking minimums. Let me give you one example why. According to Sue Mosey in a Crains article, Joe Louis Southern Kitchen had to get a parking minimum exemption because somehow being near the QLine and multiple buse routes on Woodward and West Grand Blvd, plus many other surface lots nearby would not pass the current as written city ordinance if it had been applied and enforced.
A little too late, everybody from Detroit has already left and moved to booming cities like Nashville, Austin, Houston, Dallas, Charlotte, Atlanta, Tampa and Raliegh.
I am Detroit born, raised and very proud of it. I moved down south right around this time last year, but I spent the last 5 years prior to that correcting people who always claimed Detroit was awful. We're flying up for a weekend visit later this month and I'm very excited to show my wife a lot of my favorite places since she's never been there.
AREN'T THESE "OBSERVATIONS" BEING CONDUCTED FROM OVERWHELMING AIRPLANES HOLDING DIRECTLY OVER US IN PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL ZONED NEIGHBORHOOD, SUPPOSED TO HAVE "SPECIFIC LEGAL APPROVAL, LAWFULLY"?
DIRECTLY OVER US, SUBJECTING TO CARBON MONOXIDE, EXHAUST GASES, FUEL FUMES FROM AIRPLANES. TRAINS IDLING ON TRACKS NEARBY SAME VACINITY.
THERE ISN'T ANY EXCUSE FOR RACIAL RAGE, THE INSANE PSYCHOPATHS STALKING US RELENTLESSLY, BRUTALITY UNPROVOKED ORGANIZED TERRORISTS GROUPS.
REPORT REPEATEDLY ABOUT THE HOOVERING DIRECTLY OVER US, OUR PRIVACY! NO LEGAL ENFORCEMENT FOR THESE TERRORISTS.
USING AIRPLANES TO FORCE INHUMANE ABUSIVE DEPLORABLE ENVIRONMENTS, "HOW TO EASILY REMOVE DARK SPOTS"!!! PROPOGANDA FROM IRRATES HIDING BEHIND POSITIONS. SHAMELESS.
CERTAINLY PERSONNEL INVOLVEMENT, USING AIRPLANES, EXCUSES TO HAVE GOTTEN INSIDE RESIDENTIAL ZONED NEIGHBORHOOD. EXTREMELY RACIAL MOTIVATED, HATE GROUPS!
11:59 A.M. ONE DEPARTING AIRPLANE, MANY MORE STILL HERE! THEY HAVE NO BUSINESS WITH SECURITY CLEARANCES. THEY ARE SEVERELY TARGETING US. NOT FOR REASONS THEY'VE FABRICATED. LET'S SAY SAME SITUATIONS AS BALTIMORE, PRIOR, B4 CLEAN UP!!
813-809 EAST STATE, 856 EAST MARY STREETS, MARTIN LUTHER KING JR BLVD, BRISTOL TN/VA 37620/24201
All the times I've been to Detroit it didn't smell bad like these comments are trying to say. Why complain about the homeless as if that is what makes a city bad? Every city has homelessness. Why let that affect your attitude so much? The city has great restaurants, the buses will essentially take you anywhere you want to go. They have all those major projects that will bring more people to the city as well. They will be inserting a park near the riverfront.
They are building something from the top down and that has never been tried before. Breakthroughs are happening in Detroit. The city is on its way up. Yes, the parking is horrendous like any city with a lot of people. Just find a spot and pay for it. You will probably be walking a lot. It's worth it though. Each time I went down to Detroit (I live 30-45 min away) I have never had a bad experience.
I had a lot of fun in that city. I wish people would stop judging it so badly.
WXYZ-TV … are you reporting the tax breaks, the projects that never resulted in promises made, and who's benefiting financially by taking from Detroit?! Jobs promised, were they given to Detroiters … Wow … the decades of bs …
We need to focus on downtown deployment and growth and demolition in other areas. We need more demolition in other areas of Detroit letting us know how many buildings are actually left to demolish!!!
Eu sou brasileiro e estou muito contente que a cidade pareçe reviver aos poucos descobrindo seus novos caminhos e que os erros não se repitam e que os Eua despertem e cuidem dessa bela nacão e belo povo !!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I LOVE this!!! Lived in Sterling Heights for a couple of years in the early '70s and then In Windsor for 22 years, SO HAPPY to see this happening in Detroit, and this is from a born and raised Clevelander!
everybody is coming to michigan to get their abortions taken care of , no matter what age, no permission from parents, thanks to the new laws pushed by the democrat party. our lovely state is on par with chinas baby killing laws. believe it, it's true
Please, no offence to anybody, and I mean that, but I thought Detroit was dead, or at least dying. The last I heard, after declaring bankruptcy, the city fell apart, and it broke my heart to see, because many years ago, when I was a young man (I’m 54) I was in Detroit in its heyday, a bustling, successful, powerful metropolis. But then the crime began, and when the auto makers abandoned the city, it became a ghost town where entire swaths of suburbia turned into an urban wasteland, with thousands of condemned homes and buildings, rotting away, with crime, gun violence, gang violence, and destruction of everything all around, it seemed like the city was going to be completely destroyed. I’m not that far away, I’m in Toronto, but like everyone else, I have a very busy life, and I keep meaning to go to Detroit to see what’s going on there now. Seeing this video makes me really happy, but I’d like to see it for myself, and hear it from you guys, from the people that live there. What’s happened to bring it back to life? Last I checked entire neighbourhoods were being bulldoze over because the homes were all abandoned and falling apart, along with many of the old factories. Have you guys managed to turn things around? I am a huge skyscraper fanatic, especially historical ones, and your city is blessed with many of them, please tell me they are actually going to save them, restore them to their original grandeur, and restore life back to the city that was once so beautiful. Also, can anyone give me a few suggestions of the best places to visit in the city because I do plan on going there if not this summer then next summer? Either way, I’m just so glad to see things are starting to turn around. This is the perfect example of why you never build an entire city based upon one main industry only. I know a lot of people fled the city, leaving behind only those who couldn’t afford to leave, and the race riots didn’t help matters either, has there been any improvement on that front? That was the beginning of the end, it is so wonderful to see a new beginning from that ending. Are any of the skyscrapers open to the public? I would love to see inside. My favourite city in the world is Manhattan. I have travelled the globe, but Manhattan has my heart, however, Detroit has so much potential, and it’s a heck of a lot closer, only a 5 Hour drive from my house in downtown Toronto. I wish every single citizen in Detroit nothing but the very best of luck in the future, and in the present. So, if any of you guys can tell me some of the best places to visit, I’d greatly appreciate it, I just have to see this for myself, to see it coming back to life after going through so much heartache and strife, thanks!
Detroit still has a very long way to go. I'm from the Netherlands and I was really surprised to read that downtown Detroit has far less people living there then the downtown of my hometown of Groningen, which has just 230,000 inhabitants overall. But its downtown has about the same amount of annual visitors(!). But looking at Google Earth I can understand why. Downtown Detroit looks very uninviting with wide streets and immens empty parking lots. Downtown Detroit should loose those and replace them with mid rise buildings with shops.
Detroit has lost a lot of beautiful buildings. It would be great if they could recreate that architecture. I'm sure it'll be a bunch of soulless glass buildings. Thank goodness they are trying to save some of the buildings.
Still too many surface parking lots downtown and nearby. And Im not just referring to the stuff owned by Illitch, the city needs to eliminate or drastically reduce their parking minimums.
Let me give you one example why. According to Sue Mosey in a Crains article, Joe Louis Southern Kitchen had to get a parking minimum exemption because somehow being near the QLine and multiple buse routes on Woodward and West Grand Blvd, plus many other surface lots nearby would not pass the current as written city ordinance if it had been applied and enforced.
Great job Detroit. Keep up the good work.
A little too late, everybody from Detroit has already left and moved to booming cities like Nashville, Austin, Houston, Dallas, Charlotte, Atlanta, Tampa and Raliegh.
Who cares.the neighborhoods need the help.restore the houses.stop relying on community groups to clean detroit🤬🤬
The most important construction project of all is not mentioned. The Freakin' Bridge!
I am Detroit born, raised and very proud of it. I moved down south right around this time last year, but I spent the last 5 years prior to that correcting people who always claimed Detroit was awful. We're flying up for a weekend visit later this month and I'm very excited to show my wife a lot of my favorite places since she's never been there.
good for detroit
What about the rest of the City ?
AREN'T THESE "OBSERVATIONS" BEING CONDUCTED FROM OVERWHELMING AIRPLANES HOLDING DIRECTLY OVER US IN PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL ZONED NEIGHBORHOOD, SUPPOSED TO HAVE "SPECIFIC LEGAL APPROVAL, LAWFULLY"?
DIRECTLY OVER US, SUBJECTING TO CARBON MONOXIDE, EXHAUST GASES, FUEL FUMES FROM AIRPLANES. TRAINS IDLING ON TRACKS NEARBY SAME VACINITY.
THERE ISN'T ANY EXCUSE FOR RACIAL RAGE, THE INSANE PSYCHOPATHS STALKING US RELENTLESSLY, BRUTALITY UNPROVOKED ORGANIZED TERRORISTS GROUPS.
REPORT REPEATEDLY ABOUT THE HOOVERING DIRECTLY OVER US, OUR PRIVACY! NO LEGAL ENFORCEMENT FOR THESE TERRORISTS.
USING AIRPLANES TO FORCE INHUMANE ABUSIVE DEPLORABLE ENVIRONMENTS, "HOW TO EASILY REMOVE DARK SPOTS"!!! PROPOGANDA FROM IRRATES HIDING BEHIND POSITIONS. SHAMELESS.
CERTAINLY PERSONNEL INVOLVEMENT, USING AIRPLANES, EXCUSES TO HAVE GOTTEN INSIDE RESIDENTIAL ZONED NEIGHBORHOOD. EXTREMELY RACIAL MOTIVATED, HATE GROUPS!
11:59 A.M. ONE DEPARTING AIRPLANE, MANY MORE STILL HERE! THEY HAVE NO BUSINESS WITH SECURITY CLEARANCES. THEY ARE SEVERELY TARGETING US. NOT FOR REASONS THEY'VE FABRICATED. LET'S SAY SAME SITUATIONS AS BALTIMORE, PRIOR, B4 CLEAN UP!!
813-809 EAST STATE, 856 EAST MARY STREETS, MARTIN LUTHER KING JR BLVD, BRISTOL TN/VA 37620/24201
We live in downtown Detroit for 16 years now, we love it ,keeps getting better every year
All the times I've been to Detroit it didn't smell bad like these comments are trying to say. Why complain about the homeless as if that is what makes a city bad? Every city has homelessness. Why let that affect your attitude so much? The city has great restaurants, the buses will essentially take you anywhere you want to go. They have all those major projects that will bring more people to the city as well. They will be inserting a park near the riverfront.
They are building something from the top down and that has never been tried before. Breakthroughs are happening in Detroit. The city is on its way up. Yes, the parking is horrendous like any city with a lot of people. Just find a spot and pay for it. You will probably be walking a lot. It's worth it though. Each time I went down to Detroit (I live 30-45 min away) I have never had a bad experience.
I had a lot of fun in that city. I wish people would stop judging it so badly.
WXYZ-TV … are you reporting the tax breaks, the projects that never resulted in promises made, and who's benefiting financially by taking from Detroit?! Jobs promised, were they given to Detroiters … Wow … the decades of bs …
It’s funny how everybody’s moving down to the south maybe 100 years everybody move back up to the north, and you never know!
Detroit is an open air asylum run by its inmates 🙄
The hood rats are looking forward to the grand opening.
😇
I love my city ❤
Hopefully one day they will finally host the Olympics.
While the neighborhoods are a filthy mess.
We need to focus on downtown deployment and growth and demolition in other areas. We need more demolition in other areas of Detroit letting us know how many buildings are actually left to demolish!!!
More high ass cost living is in development is what there saying
Eu sou brasileiro e estou muito contente que a cidade pareçe reviver aos poucos descobrindo seus novos caminhos e que os erros não se repitam e que os Eua despertem e cuidem dessa bela nacão e belo povo !!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Love to see it!
I LOVE this!!! Lived in Sterling Heights for a couple of years in the early '70s and then In Windsor for 22 years, SO HAPPY to see this happening in Detroit, and this is from a born and raised Clevelander!
Positive signs.💯👍🏽
De2roit 🫡
Detroit was once the engine of this country, looks like money is going where it’s supposed to now
everybody is coming to michigan to get their abortions taken care of , no matter what age, no permission from parents, thanks to the new laws pushed by the democrat party. our lovely state is on par with chinas baby killing laws. believe it, it's true
Please, no offence to anybody, and I mean that, but I thought Detroit was dead, or at least dying. The last I heard, after declaring bankruptcy, the city fell apart, and it broke my heart to see, because many years ago, when I was a young man (I’m 54) I was in Detroit in its heyday, a bustling, successful, powerful metropolis. But then the crime began, and when the auto makers abandoned the city, it became a ghost town where entire swaths of suburbia turned into an urban wasteland, with thousands of condemned homes and buildings, rotting away, with crime, gun violence, gang violence, and destruction of everything all around, it seemed like the city was going to be completely destroyed. I’m not that far away, I’m in Toronto, but like everyone else, I have a very busy life, and I keep meaning to go to Detroit to see what’s going on there now. Seeing this video makes me really happy, but I’d like to see it for myself, and hear it from you guys, from the people that live there. What’s happened to bring it back to life? Last I checked entire neighbourhoods were being bulldoze over because the homes were all abandoned and falling apart, along with many of the old factories. Have you guys managed to turn things around? I am a huge skyscraper fanatic, especially historical ones, and your city is blessed with many of them, please tell me they are actually going to save them, restore them to their original grandeur, and restore life back to the city that was once so beautiful. Also, can anyone give me a few suggestions of the best places to visit in the city because I do plan on going there if not this summer then next summer? Either way, I’m just so glad to see things are starting to turn around. This is the perfect example of why you never build an entire city based upon one main industry only. I know a lot of people fled the city, leaving behind only those who couldn’t afford to leave, and the race riots didn’t help matters either, has there been any improvement on that front? That was the beginning of the end, it is so wonderful to see a new beginning from that ending. Are any of the skyscrapers open to the public? I would love to see inside. My favourite city in the world is Manhattan. I have travelled the globe, but Manhattan has my heart, however, Detroit has so much potential, and it’s a heck of a lot closer, only a 5 Hour drive from my house in downtown Toronto. I wish every single citizen in Detroit nothing but the very best of luck in the future, and in the present. So, if any of you guys can tell me some of the best places to visit, I’d greatly appreciate it, I just have to see this for myself, to see it coming back to life after going through so much heartache and strife, thanks!
LMFAO! NO IT AINT! PHILADELPHIA DOMINATE ALL YOUS! ALL YOUS! =)
Good luck Detroit 🎉
1:06 the shape this city is in and the stigma it has throughout the country, it'll be decades before it's a destination.
No thanks. I'll pass.
If you're interested in some real Detroit content, here are some D-City creators with their fingers on the pulse of The Motor City:
1. Maddie on her journey to sucess!
2. Chosen Won-girls
3. Sharon V TV
Tell 'em Dr. Sus sent ya.
Detroit still has a very long way to go. I'm from the Netherlands and I was really surprised to read that downtown Detroit has far less people living there then the downtown of my hometown of Groningen, which has just 230,000 inhabitants overall. But its downtown has about the same amount of annual visitors(!). But looking at Google Earth I can understand why. Downtown Detroit looks very uninviting with wide streets and immens empty parking lots. Downtown Detroit should loose those and replace them with mid rise buildings with shops.
Detroit has lost a lot of beautiful buildings. It would be great if they could recreate that architecture. I'm sure it'll be a bunch of soulless glass buildings. Thank goodness they are trying to save some of the buildings.