Many have chosen to come to Detroit rather than Boston, Silicon Valley or Austin because a new wave of innovation – and $700m worth of investment by the Ford Motor Company, city tax breaks and money from other investors – is helping revive a locale that for so long served as a poster child for the death of the American city.
When the Book Cadillac hotel opened in Detroit a century ago this month, it crowned the Motor City as one of the most dominant metropolitan powers on the planet.
Back then, Detroit was a place where all and sundry wanted to see or be seen as the city’s dominant industry – automobiles – fueled the dawn of mass mobility for the wider world.
Whereas a century ago, immigrants from Syria, Poland and Ireland landed at the Michigan Central train station next door, today entrepreneurs and engineers from Mexico, Norway and beyond are descending on the city.
‘It’s buzzing here’: Detroit’s revival takes shape after decades of decay The tech scene is booming in the US’s largest Black-majority city, with foreign investment and a recent population boost.
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