Replies to post #474438 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[janice shell]

Six lane wide streets, historic buildings with breathtaking facades, plenty of room for plenty of people but it's more like a ghost town. Why? I don't know but it just is.

The auto business went bust. What was left of it moved south where non-unionized labor could be used. And now it is, as you say, a ghost town.

A girl in my dorm my freshman year was from Windsor. Tiny and cute. A little plump. But she wanted to be an engineer, so she transferred to MIT after her freshman year. I wonder what she ended up doing; there weren't many women studying engineering back in the '60s.

[dukeb]

I've never been to Detroit and surely it has a history of boom and bust but is it on the verge of a boom once again?

Within the last week or so I read an article (either the Wall Street Journal or the NY Times...can't remember which) about how Detroit has become a model for reinventing a city. The downtown is once again becoming vibrant, led by the owner of Rocket Mortgage, who invested money in an area that virtually everyone else had given up on. Detroit is one of the non-rural areas of the country where housing is still affordable so businesses are starting to locate there since they can hire workers less expensively than on the costs.

What I've read about Minneapolis, on the other hand, is much more bleak. With entire downtown office buildings abandoned and the feral element taking over the streets.

[fuagf]

Your Detroit reminded me of some posts, luckily guessed the year for a few ..

Susan Tompor: Women business owners see reasons to add to payrolls
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=90170526

and before and after, for interest.