Wednesday, July 01, 2015

Ren Cen 4 Loss 'Is Not a Good Sign of the City's Health'

Update: Ren Cen 4 Loss 'Is Not a Good Sign of the City's Health' -- Stephen Henderson –  Deadline Detroit:
Prominent journalist Stephen Henderson is among Detroiters disappointed by news that the Ren Cen 4 movie theater shuts tonight, as Crain's reports.
Stephen Henderson: "This is the kind of stuff that makes middle-class families say hell no to living in Detroit." 
The Free Press editorial page editor, who also hosts "Detroit Today" on WDET, reacts as a parent, a civic booster and a movie fan.
He agrees to let us repost this comment from his Faceboom page, where he links to Natalie Broda's article at the business publication:
We talk a lot about whether Detroit is "coming back" or not, but rarely does stuff like this enter the conversation.
If you live here, and especially if you're raising kids here, basic quality of life issues remain really confounding.
And I'll say it: This is the kind of stuff that makes middle-class families say hell no to living in Detroit. Yes, it's just a movie theater.
And it's far from the most important economic development in the city's core, let alone in desperately un-serviced neighborhoods..."

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