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The City of Detroit’s Future Landscape

By Drew Sygit | Published: April 11, 2010
There’s a lot of talk about the reshaping of the city of Detroit.  Mayor Bing has mentioned several times the city needs to be shrunk and so have many other community leaders and experts. Urban farms are all the buzz and starting to take shape.  There’s some serious talk going on about copying Flint, Michigan’s [...]
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Greatest Redistribution of Wealth EVER. Get Yours!

By Jeremy Burgess | Published: March 26, 2009
Recently I have been thinking a lot about the saying, “May you live in interesting times.” If NOW doesn’t qualify, I’m not sure what does! Of late I have been reading almost obsessively on The First Great Depression to find as many parallels between then and now. I have been shocked about what I have [...]
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Identifying Opportunity in Times of “Crisis”

By Jared Pomranky | Published: February 11, 2009
"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters - one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity." Now I'm not fluent in written or spoken Chinese so I have no idea if this is correct or not but it makes a very good point. Throughout Michigan in the past couple of years, even more so in Southeast Michigan, I have heard newspapers, workers, and everyone else state that our economy is in some form of a crisis or another. I'm not arguing the fact that we have significant challenges with our economy and the real estate market right now. What I'm arguing is where our focus should be.
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