Max Fisher 12
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Well, you have to remember, a city is not born in a hurry. It takes time, sometimes centuries. And now—it takes time to destroy it. It became destroyed when the population dropped from a million eight to a million. Now you have to rebuild it, and it takes a lot of work. The city of Detroit will not be the same in two thousand and twenty-five or fifty that it was back a hundred years ago. It will be a different city, but it will be a more vibrant city, and it will be a city of more opportunities because people are involved in trying to bring it back. And I just happened to feel, if you come back here in twenty-five or fifty years, you look around and see great pleasure in what is taking place. You see, rebuilding a city is like rebuilding a mosaic: It takes little pieces and big pieces put together to build that mosaic. And that’s what happened. Like our building the apartment buildings, the Tigers building this new stadium, Chrysler building that big plant out at—All of those things put together takes time. And it takes a desire, it takes people that dream about it. So sometime down the line, you’ll have the city that will attract people and will be a great community.