The current creative energy in the city of Detroit and its suburbs offers an opportunity of unparalleled excellence.
In 1701, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded a trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later became the city of Detroit.
For example, Detroit Venture Partners (my firm) utilizes an all-digital strategy to invest in early stage companies committed to the city of Detroit.
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The United States is a much poorer, less prosperous nation than it was in 1980 or 1960 and think the City of Detroit is the bellwether.
At a moment when the City of Detroit has been declared insolvent and foundations are looking for innovation, the approach carries two critical lessons for community development.
The City of Detroit is the bellwether of this process.
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The son of former U.S. Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, he was elected mayor at the age of 31, and brought fresh energy and ideas to the city of Detroit.
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Critics argue that The Palace of Auburn Hills is too far away from the City of Detroit, as a result, disconnecting the team from its core fans and driving out resources.
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The city of Detroit has the highest number of violent crimes in the country and the unemployment rate is at 10.2% according to The Michigan Department of Technology, Management, and Budget.
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Shareholders should care about this, even if the lead plaintiff, the City of Livonia, Mich. does not. (The city west of Detroit has sued Boeing, Wachovia and at least five other companies in the last three years.) As I have observed many times before, securities settlements are paid by shareholders and every dollar that flows to the lawyers is a dollar they no longer own.
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City the size of Detroit, MI file bankruptcy?
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Kilpatrick, the Detroit mayor from 2002 until he resigned in 2008, was the biggest target of a years-long Detroit City Hall corruption probe that led to the convictions of two dozen people, including several of his closest friends and former City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, the wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers.
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Clearly, the success of Detroit Future City depends on building population density around certain neighborhoods that are already in decent shape and stabilizing home values there.
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Prosecutors said Kilpatrick ran a "private profit machine" out of Detroit's City Hall.
Six decades ago, Detroit was a city of nearly two million people brimming with factory jobs that offered immigrants from the South and abroad a pathway into the American middle class.
Detroit is a city of contrasts, but no one has captured the good and bad as vividly as an unidentified hobbyist armed with a cheap helicopter-like flying robot and a YouTube account.
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Corktown, one of the city's oldest neighbourhoods, is perhaps the most compact example of Detroit's artistic rebirth.
Mr Bloomberg wants to go further by offering visas to foreigners who agree to live in a failing city such as Detroit for a minimum of seven years without claiming any federal, state or local welfare benefits.
But perhaps the movement to capitalize on the mood of the hard-working Motor City, dates further back to another iconic Detroit symbol, the staunch look of the olde English D, first stitched on the uniforms of Detroit Tigers jerseys and caps in 1934.
Detroit came within days of default this past week because of a disagreement between the city and Michigan authorities over bailout payments a situation that spurred Fitch to cut Detroit's rating from single-B to triple-C on June 12.
For example, in Detroit, the city with the highest percentage of foreclosures nationwide, unemployment was nearly 10% last year, about twice the national average.
One of the few positive memories I have of Detroit is the DIA. If the city were a body, the DIA might be its heart.
Experts say more big-city papers are expected to follow the example of Gannett's Detroit Free Press, which started cutting back on print edition delivery in December.
And the specter of decline always floats uneasily above the city call it the Detroit effect.
"This is the idea of downsizing the city so that the costs more closely match the amount Detroit brings in, " Henning said.
Sinai-Grace is not the most cash-strapped hospital in the city that would be Detroit Receiving Hospital, where a fifth of the patients have no means of payment.
Republican Gov. Rick Snyder said Friday he plans to appoint an emergency financial manager for Detroit, taking control of the state's largest city out of the hands of elected leaders.
We created Techonomy Detroit because we see a set of urgent issues for this city and the country that all of us need to better understand.
The future that so many people long for, of a city that reinvented itself, is simply not going to happen until Detroit deals with its present, and gets beyond its past.
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