someday Detroit will be rebuilt but it will be primarily by private funds and investment.
not by government programs, other than essential infrastructural improvements as may be necessary.
government can also review its various laws and regulations to see which ones further depress the economy
there are quite a number of them, and SOME at least could be modified or dropped...to enable the American economy to recover somewhat...
major cities grew up for a reason. Buffalo, NY, my hometown, existed because it was the furthest you could go on the great lakes before reaching Niagara Falls. All grain was shipped through Buffalo. Bethelem Steel made iron and steel. GM used those resources to build cars. After railroads eliminated the need for a Buffalo hub, all those industries found a better place to exist.
Why Detroit? I don't see a competitive advantage.
Detroit will never be rebuilt.
American Auto is not coming back to Detroit, while they may keep their HQ’s there for historical reasons, and other facitlities in the area, all significant investment will go south and west where taxes and right to work rule.
MI going right to work might help some, but its still a tax sink hole and the US Auto Industry will NEVER be what it was in the 50s again. It will never again know a time when there was no effective world competition and they could own the market.
Europe rebuilt, and the Asian Rim is in the game.
Someday perhaps Detroit will shrink to “RIGHT SIZE” and get its house in order, but given all the wealth long ago fled the city due to mismanagment and black racism, that’s not going to even begin to happen for another 2-3 decades once those things get put into check, and neither of those is even remotely in check at present.
Its depressing to go anywhere near detroit. You can go to cities that were bombed into rubble and in less than 10 years look better than Detroit does.