“I laugh when New Yorkers complain about the strip mauling of Times Square and their weird nostalgia for when it was seedy and dangerous. If you really miss seedy and dangerous, I know a house I can sell you for a dollar. Seriously. The fact that risk-averse national retail outlets who care only about the bottom line won’t invest here is part of why I love living in Detroit. Being skipped by decades of prosperity means that this city doesn’t look like everywhere else. It comes at quite a cost, but I’ll be doggone if I wouldn’t celebrate the absence of these national retailers rather than add it to the heap of things we already have to complain about here.”
