Monday, June 26, 2006

Dick DeVos' Michigan Turn Around Plan

DeVos' Plan

This is the DeVos economic plan for Michigan, straight from its primary source. I encourage everyone to read it.
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6 comments:

Dan said...

You're half right. The fastest growing CITIES are those areas, but the fastest growing areas are the red "exurbs", much to the chagrin of Teixeira's book. (The emerging Democrat majority) It's similar to Richard Florida's "Creative Class" thinking.

Granholm's banking on Richard Florida's "Creative Class" (lofts, etc) type of thinking to turn Detroit around and use for other cities. She wants this whole state to turn into one big Ann Arbor. I don't mean that as an insult.

Most of the creative class types aren't going to Detroit (outside of a few in Downtown). Most I've seen are snobs that look down on it. Compounding the problem here, they like Ann Arbor and Royal Oak, right down the road from there.

Problem II - Many of these creative class types don't have families. How's that going to help the neighborhoods and schools- which are the biggest problem for any city comeback.

Problem III - I know what the creative class mindset thinks about Livingston County - especially with the debates over Howell High School and the rainbow flag (which is a BIG deal to a large number of the attitudes of the creative class). Despite that, we're the fastest growing county in the state year after year. Outside of a few liberals who are trying to change us, we never made any pretentions about being "cool", or following the creative class guidelines. Most people I know are trying to LEAVE the city (and I wish they didn't all bring the city out here, but that's another story).

I know those were generalizations, but that's all I can do on a blog post without turning this into a 50 page report.

BTW - Tahquamenon Falls is a must visit for those who haven't been there.

6/27/2006 3:52 PM
bluzie said...

Wayne County has the highest number of new housing starts in the state of Michigan. What's this all about?

6/28/2006 12:02 AM
Dan said...

I didn't use new housing starts as my source. I used population growth.

Some parts of Wayne County are fast growing (Plymouth, Northville, Canton, Huron Twp, Brownstown Twp), others are shrinking (Inner ring burbs, Detroit)

6/28/2006 9:25 AM
bluzie said...

Population in just Detroit? Let's be clear now.

If Kevin was kicked off I will be so very disappointed.

Say it's not so.

6/30/2006 7:16 PM
Dan said...

Kevin (also known as Communications Guru) can post here if he wants. I think as many conservatives as liberals would be mad at me (but would never admit it) if he was kicked off.

It's not just Detroit that's shrinking. Inner ring suburbs (Warren, Redford, parts of Downriver, Inkster, Romulus, Taylor) and most core cities (Flint, Saginaw, Bay City, Lansing, Jackson, Battle Creek) across the state are shrinking. I believe even Grand Rapids which grew back to almost 200,000 in the 90's is shrinking.

6/30/2006 7:24 PM
Communications guru said...

Kevins certainly was kicked off.

7/13/2006 10:51 PM

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