GM's Bust Turns Detroit Into Urban Prairie of Vacant-Lot Farms

[Steaks]

Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., and Chrysler LLC are fighting for their lives. Large stretches of Detroit are already dead.
With enough abandoned lots to fill the city of San Francisco, Motown is 138 square miles divided between expanses of decay and emptiness and tracts of still-functioning communities and commercial areas. Close to six barren acres of an estimated 17,000 have already been turned into 500 ``mini- farms,'' demonstrating the lengths to which planners will go to make land productive.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aMV8_J49diKs&refer=home

So the agricultural revolution returns?

[Romulus]

Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., and Chrysler LLC are fighting for their lives. Large stretches of Detroit are already dead.
With enough abandoned lots to fill the city of San Francisco, Motown is 138 square miles divided between expanses of decay and emptiness and tracts of still-functioning communities and commercial areas. Close to six barren acres of an estimated 17,000 have already been turned into 500 ``mini- farms,'' demonstrating the lengths to which planners will go to make land productive.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aMV8_J49diKs&refer=home

So the agricultural revolution returns?

This isn't news.

They have been growing hemp in Detroit for years.

[Currahee 1SG]

While I love the state that I grew up in, it has out lived it ability to live on the auto industry. To long has it lived on one area only....and now it pays the price for that stupidity.

[Romulus]

While I love the state that I grew up in, it has out lived it ability to live on the auto industry. To long has it lived on one area only....and now it pays the price for that stupidity.

Well.......There's always Cereal.

[Currahee 1SG]

Well.......There's always Cereal.

Lets see that would be West Detroit, uuuhhhhh suburb Kalamazoo.

[Deman]

This isn't news.

They have been growing hemp in Detroit for years.

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[Violet Fashion by Mindy]

Newcastle has managed to weather the storm pretty when the steel mill closed and many heavy industries who supported the steel mill closed. All it takes is planning, commitment and time.

[Parx400]

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Must have not been a "good day"

[BlackFlag]

While I generally rail on my hometown for it's obvious flaws I can't all the BS that's been going on with the auto bail out. The big three f*cked up and now they need a way out. At first I was against it but all this grand standing by congress for 25 billion dollars, when they gave Wall Street 700 billion dollars, it seemed like they couldn't get rid of the money faster.

I generally believe that Detroit is the most hated city in the US, I admit, I do my fair share of hating. When it comes down to it though, without Detroit we would all be speaking German right now. It kind of pisses me off that the Government had the big three (pluss American Motors and a few other companies) building tanks, jeeps, bombers and machine guns to win the war, but dilly dally about when they are in trouble.

[Zoomie]

When it comes down to it though, without Detroit we would all be speaking German right now. It kind of pisses me off that the Government had the big three (pluss American Motors and a few other companies) building tanks, jeeps, bombers and machine guns to win the war, but dilly dally about when they are in trouble.

ROFL, what a horrible example. Total war vs. total incompetence. Hmmm. . . :cantbeli:

[Abolith]

While I generally rail on my hometown for it's obvious flaws I can't all the BS that's been going on with the auto bail out. The big three f*cked up and now they need a way out. At first I was against it but all this grand standing by congress for 25 billion dollars, when they gave Wall Street 700 billion dollars, it seemed like they couldn't get rid of the money faster.

I generally believe that Detroit is the most hated city in the US, I admit, I do my fair share of hating. When it comes down to it though, without Detroit we would all be speaking German right now. It kind of pisses me off that the Government had the big three (pluss American Motors and a few other companies) building tanks, jeeps, bombers and machine guns to win the war, but dilly dally about when they are in trouble.


the big three put themselves in this position. 60 years ago they were a different sort of company.