thesaint
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I disagree with the comeback limited to adjacent areas. I work for Quicken and our company along with others have spent thousand of hours and volunteered to clean up, assist, work with those challenged areas with cleaning up the neighborhoods, schools, food pantrys, kitchens that serve the needy and so much more.
that's wonderful and helpful but doesn't the fact that these areas need soup kitchens, food pantries and volunteer cleanups belie the proposition that they are doing well? problem is that to have long-term, sustainable economic development soup kitchens and volunteer school clean ups, while wonderful things for sure, aren't going to get the job of getting jobs for the vast unemployed and welfare dependent legions of Detroiters done. they are but band-aids. very helpful. but they're still charity. just a different form of welfare. i'm sure the people who live there appreciate it and are grateful, but what they really want and need are jobs and an economic recovery that extends beyond downtown further than the Illitch & Gilbert families are willing to go.