A restored gilded age mansion sits amid new townhouses in once devastated Brush Park. To the south lies the new Detroit Tiger baseball stadium.

It seemed as if a metropolis divided against itself began to realize that a healthy City of Detroit was required for the health of all.  Federal and State legislation began providing attractive investment incentives. Initiatives inspired by Mayor Dennis Archer led to a decline in hostilities among metro Detroit's people and governments. Nostalgia for  real downtown combined with a degree of guilt over the continuing and embarrassing loss of shared architectural wonders added momentum.  Billions of dollars of new development projects soon filled the pipelines of the future and began to issue forth.

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