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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 395
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, November 01, 2007 - 8:54 pm: |    |
This excludes the factory and construction workers. How many people commute to and from Downtown and/or Midtown daily for work? |
Mike
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Username: Mike
Post Number: 1049
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, November 01, 2007 - 9:47 pm: | |
this thread will always come up, and the answer will always be not enough, and a lot less than you think. |
Sticks
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Username: Sticks
Post Number: 345
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Friday, November 02, 2007 - 12:05 am: | |
Are there any factories left in the CBD or Midtown areas? Not to mention there's not a lot of construction going on in these spots, anyways.
Sounds like you basically want to know the number of white-collar jobs 'round here. |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 398
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Friday, November 02, 2007 - 12:18 pm: | |
"Sounds like you basically want to know the number of white-collar jobs 'round here."
Yeah, pretty much. ^^^X-P |
Mrsjdaniels
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Username: Mrsjdaniels
Post Number: 296
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Friday, November 02, 2007 - 3:22 pm: | |
9000+ at WSU - midtown |
Charlottepaul
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Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 1935
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, November 02, 2007 - 6:02 pm: | |
"Not to mention there's not a lot of construction going on in these spots, anyways."
Pay a visit; you might be really surprised. |
Harmonie
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Username: Harmonie
Post Number: 719
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Friday, November 02, 2007 - 6:46 pm: | |
In the 2006 study of crime in downtown done by wayne state the daytime population of downtown was 74,000 with 5,200 living in the downtown area.
That's not counting midtown. |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 403
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Friday, November 02, 2007 - 6:55 pm: | |
So our CBD isn't doing too shabby when you include Midtown :-). It needs to get better though because even Atlanta (were 2 or 3 times their size) has 250,000 workers in their CBD alone. |
Sticks
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Username: Sticks
Post Number: 348
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 1:47 am: | |
Pay a visit; you might be really surprised.
Where? I live downtown, I believe I have a good idea of what is (some minor street construction, Westin/BC, Greektown, and MGM Grand) and isn't being worked on currently. Midtown I'm a little bit more shakey on but the only big project that would have any impact is the new student building WSU is erecting.
However, I'm unfairly comparing Detroit to NYC/Chicago where there seems to be a lot more construction or rennovations happening. |
Charlottepaul
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Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 1939
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 11:35 am: | |
Seems to me that there has been more construction in Detroit this decade already (being that it isn't even over yet), than the two previous decades combined (80s and 90s). It certainly isn't limited to the casinos of the Book Cadillac renovations, but also think of the riverwalk, renovations of the Ren Cen (and dozens of other buildings), new housing throughout midtown, the revisions to DTE's campus, and even half a dozen parking decks (for better or worse). In my case of comparison, I am comparing Detroit to itself, not NYC or any other city. |
Detroit313
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Username: Detroit313
Post Number: 532
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 3:17 pm: | |
I think you should count the blue collar workers too, after all they are commuting too...
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Kslice
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Username: Kslice
Post Number: 197
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 3:28 pm: | |
Yeah, construction workers and such spend their money when there down here. |
Spiritofdetroit
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Username: Spiritofdetroit
Post Number: 689
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, November 04, 2007 - 9:52 pm: | |
80,000 downtown and 193,000 total including Downtown/New Center/Midtown |
Miketoronto
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Username: Miketoronto
Post Number: 729
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, November 04, 2007 - 10:34 pm: | |
Not bad figures at all for what was an industrial city, with not a large grounded downtown workforce.
And the good news is that downtowns employment is increasing.
Get those numbers going up and more people will have to come into the city and then see how fun and great it is to work in and spend time in. |