[Popman]

And in Detroit it would have bought the whole block and all the blocks around it for a mile.

I'm really surprised some investors have not offered Detroit hard cash to outright buy and incorporate as a new city, a couple square miles of Detroit to develop into livable communities

There probably isn't a place in America where land is cheaper that already has built in infrastructure and access to several large cities

[Echo4C]

This would only work if the group of investors called themselves Omni Consumer Products, the new city Delta City, and they built a robot to police it. Even then, it’s dicey.

[BobL]

“I’m really surprised some investors have not offered Detroit hard cash to outright buy and incorporate as a new city, a couple square miles of Detroit to develop into livable communities “

Can’t do it...it’s all in the crime. Get rid of the crime, and the problems end. But you have to vote in people that would re-enslave blacks (as they see it) by putting the bad guys in jail for a long time. And guess who votes...game over.

[Iguess]

It would clearly have to be a gated community with high walls (return to the middle ages) as all the close in suburbs would present an ongoing crime problem.