Resurgo

The stories written about Detroit often say that the city was great, died, and has now comeback. “Comeback" glosses over its 650,000 citizens. Or they say that Detroit is a blank canvas. Both narratives fall short because they lack the core of the city; the people. If you come to Detroit to find blight, you will find blight. If you come to Detroit to find life, you will find life in abundance. It has been that way; it is that way. It’s up to who you are. It’s how you show up.

This welcoming, Black, Central Coast metropolis at the center of one of the largest surface freshwater ecosystems on Earth is on the cusp of leading the world and in many ways, it already is. Everyone from climate change refugees to tech companies are looking to Michigan for their future. As the region’s heart and anchor, Detroit has seen great change in the city in the past 10 years, but I feel confident that this next decade will be unlike anything Detroit, or the nation, has ever seen.”