where’d everybody go?
Hot on the heels of the news that Detroit is no longer the most miserable city in America (MMCIA), more news from our friends at Forbes gives a little more context to our fair city’s state of affairs. The reason, it turns out, why Detroit is no longer the MMCI is simply because there’s noone left in town to feel the crushing despair of the city’s postindustrial decline:
Call it a modern-day tale of two cities.
For decades, Las Vegas, ripe with new construction and economic development, burgeoned into a shimmering urban carnival. Detroit, once the fulcrum of American industry, sagged and rusted under its own weight.
These days, it’s the worst of times for both.
Las Vegas edged Detroit for the title of America’s most abandoned city. Atlanta came in third, followed by Greensboro, N.C., and Dayton, Ohio. Our rankings, a combination of rental and homeowner vacancy rates for the 75 largest metropolitan statistical areas in the country, are based on fourth-quarter data released Feb. 3 by the Census Bureau. Each was ranked on rental vacancies and housing vacancies; the final ranking is an average of the two.
To be fair to the D, it is actually ranked at #2 alongside two of its suburbs, Livonia and (w00t!) Warren. So there we have it. More on this story as it develops.
Soon, all of Detroit will look like this.
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