Downtown Detroit filmed August 15th 2017

[@mauricecarter5831]

this city is coming back slowly but surely the streets are looking cleaner new buildings being erected just give it time downtown has beautiful historic and modern architecture new little ceadars district is looking awesome blighted areas are under demolition this is great for detroit jobs are coming back to this city yes its quiet hustle and bustle will return soon tourism is on the rise also

[@miriambucholtz9315]

I live in Cleveland. I moved here in 1978, watched the place decline over the years, and moved to Cincinnati about ten years ago. When I left, there were dead, abandoned buildings all over the place. Now that I'm back, I see more empty lots than decaying buildings and a lot of new construction. Cities can come back. They just need people willing to do the work.

[@antonio-onism9814]

Yeah! And when Cyberlife comes here this place will become even more...well...you know XD

[@andrewfrantz5502]

Detroit Michigan is better than New York City 😊.

[@jimmcfarlane5611]

Thanks 4k for making these videos. You have saved me an air fare. Am British and proud

[@MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia]

Jim McFarlane Michigan was a British state 😉

[@billlombard9911]

It’s basically a new city being built in the skeleton of a old one. The city center has had millions spent on it . The old Detroit still is around on the outside

[@SpfySpaceJam]

Detroit is an entire city. This is downtown not west or east side. There are good streets and bad.

[@maryjanefairley-tn7tk]

Being a Detroit native myself, I want to thank you for showing our city in a truer light. It's refreshing to see someone who doesn't try to find the worst places and contribute it the whole. Championship teams in all sports full stadiums, boat races,grand prix,big eight NCAA championship game, car shows Grand casinos and more. Oh yeah and plenty of movies filmed there ( Transformers) . But we're broke. Art museum top ranked in the country.

[@andrewfrantz5502]

The Karate Kid with Jaden Smith was filmed 🎥 in Detroit. So was The Ides of March and White Boy Rick.

[@koreanature]

Wow... !!! My best friend, It's always great. We liked and enjoyed to the end. Thanks

[@MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia]

So nice and far safer now. Amazing all of the new skyscrapers, high rises, sidewalks, alternative transportation etc

[@MycketTuff]

Now take a look at the US debt and get a good feel for the future that will come. There's no balancing those books. What happened to Detroit is a burp in the wind compared to what's waiting.

[@1122slickliverpool]

Detroit filling for bankrupts was the best thing it did. It resolved its finances and creating slow sustainable growth. It's in better situation than allot other America cities.

[@waltertomaszewski1083]

This looks quite good for a downtown area. What are some of the studio and 1 bedroom apartments going for in downtown Detroit, especially near the Arts area?

[@daybreakgray3452]

It's awesome how much has been done since this video was uploaded! The Shinola Hotel opened (the building it occupies is still under renovations here) and progress is being made on the Hudson's Site complex. Jesus I'm so excited

[@RyanisRude]

The city is looking beautiful these days!

[@mauricecarter5831]

yes it is just give it time the old and new architecture is awesome !!!

[@andrewfrantz5502]

Detroit Michigan is better than New York City 😊.

[@donleblanc7223]

I am impressed, I lived there for 2 years in '96 while attending school @ CCS.

[@frank-peterlautermann5991]

Donald `'

[@1Barsamian]

Looks incredibly clean from what I remember as a kid in the late 60s and early 70s when my family moved away

[@davidpryse6880]

I am an Aussie in love with the D, so much so that i have now travelled half way across the world ten times in the past three years, have houses in the City which are being rehabbed to strengthen the hoods they are in, if you haven`t been, don`t believe the bad publicity or jokes of years past, make up your own assessments of the great city with a rich history and great future. I love it so much that I am about to uproot my entire family and move to the D courtesy of the Diversity Lottery

[@centralgalaxy]

Is it safe to walk around the D? Fellow Aussie.

[@DanMaluchnik]

the news is take it from someone from Detroit, you have nothing to worry about, if you plan on coming here, you’ll be fine, but bring a coat it gets cold here

[@jessicanuoffer]

If you like panhandlers, beggars and homeless, then this is the place for you.

[@brucebeamon5460]

THANKS FOR seeing the Beauty that Detroit STILL has to offer those not willing to write it off ...MAY YOUR FAMILY have as PLEASANT of an experience of living here as Me and My Family have for GENERATIONS ( WORTS AND ALL )

[@brucebeamon5460]

hum take a look at downtown LA with its tent cities FULL OF HOMELESS PEOPLE RIGHT OUT SIDE EXPENSIVE APARTMENT BUILDINGS maybe SOME PEOPLE PERFER THOSE CROWDS of people , as opposed to how Detroit streets are looking in this video

[@adammiller2246]

They are doing a great job in the city. It's sad that many of the parking lots where the sites that grand old buildings once stood.

[@trainrover]

W a y more pedestrians there than in other American downtowns (e.g., more than Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, etc., etc.)..very interesting!

[@taekorndo]

This video just shows how Detroit is the city of the future! Downtown looked like all cities during COVID lockdowns 3 years before COVID was ever a thing!

[@Kurt_Outdoors]

Looks deserted...

[@sarplaninac13]

Kirk Staples It is deserted, don't listen to all these suburbanites with the big old English "D" on their car that have never lived in Detroit just going to a couple of games a year and going to Greektown or a casino. A city that size and barely has 400,000 people living in it. At it's peak it had 5 million and avaraged 1 million per year for a long time. In came in crime, out went big companies and white people. Not being racist just stating facts. The majority of the people in Detroit are ignorant and ghetto, not wanting to advance. You can view many news stories that will back my statement. From corrupt city officials to failing school system and just non caring residents. Although they are trying to make a comeback, God willing they will, i don't see it for a long time. Save all your sky scrapers and restaurants and entertainment venues and concentrate on schools, education and finding people that love the city not just downtown and regardless of their skin color. Whites love Detroit just as much.

[@sarplaninac13]

Refreshing Yea exactly, you go downtown. You've never lived there or worked there. Detroit consists of more than just downtown. Stick to Rochester, Royal Oak or, in your case Fashionable Ferndale. Stick to the burbs, that's where you belong. Go to Detroit Monday thru Friday, around 2-3pm, it is dead. Have you ever been to Chicago, LA, New York, Toronto, Montreal,...?

[@sarplaninac13]

Refreshing Downtown, that's not the only part of Detroit. It is getting better, but schools and people who don't pay taxes need to get better. Adding bars and restaurants doesn't make a city. Go to any major city and you will see what it means to have a population of people, Detroit is VACANT!

[@BurningtunaDC]

According to the US Census Detroit's peak population came in 1950 at 1.8 million making it America's fourth largest cities in terms of population. 5 million is a real stretch. Not even LA or Chicago are anywhere near 5 million.

[@sarplaninac13]

BurningtunaDC My mistake, i added metropolitan Detriot making it 4.3 million. Even at 1.8 million, what happen. Where did everyone go and why?

[@patiobeach7864]

It was Sunday.

[@hughjass8383]

3:04; "Event Parking All Day" When's the last time you ever saw that in Manhattan, NY?

[@ccbsnyc]

No one drives into Manhattan, everyone takes the train or subway. Much cheaper.

[@bdmc6583]

Wow. This doesn't look so bad. Looks nice actually

[@DanMaluchnik]

Barre Douglas I live there and it is nice

[@DanMaluchnik]

Robert Gardea shut up

[@antonioguglielmetti2661]

Has only gotten nicer

[@celasegamay5371]

Detroit is cleaner than new york city

[@exileonfanninst]

Cel Asegamay because hardly anyone lives there

[@antonioguglielmetti2661]

Downtown yes

[@Aristocles22]

If the goal was to make Detroit look great again, you failed miserably. Look how empty it is in the middle of the day. Hardly any traffic at all in the middle of Downtown. Can you even imagine downtown New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago looking this empty in broad daylight?

[@patiobeach7864]

+Nonamearisto my goal was to put something on youtube. It is what it is.

[@lt3096]

That isn't in Sumption. First off people do not stick around and the business in court area's after work hours. There's no reason to. The restaurants are usually indoors or on the rooftop so you wouldn't see people. New York in LA are two of the largest cities in the US, with millions of people. Detroit no longer has millions of people. Detroit has just under 700,000 people.

[@sixmile2360]

Nonamearisto. Thanks for the positive feedback. You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. You are concluding that the efforts to bring back the city is a failure based on one video that was probably taken on a Sunday? I live in the city near downtown. In the last ten years over 25000 jobs have been brought back into city core. Ford just announced that they are renovating the old rail station and bringing an additional 2500 into Detroit. We are not Los Angeles or Chicago or New York. Today we are 75% smaller. None the less during the week the streets are busy with workers. On weekends, especially in the summer, there are lots of activities. There is an emerging food scene, casinos, concerts and tons of bars. We still have big problems. Schools, drugs, crime and decay but people are pulling together to fix it. Rich, poor and everyone in the middle. 20 years ago it was a ghost town all the time except for us natives. I am amazed by what is going on. Construction, renovations, repurposing. Too many projects to list. Too those of us who refused to leave and are actively involved in the comeback there is a deep pride in what is happening. To those folks from the outside we say come visit us and see the changes for yourself or to a troll like you we say please stay away. We dont need or want you around.

[@trainrover]

Plenty of videos reveal LA's deserted downtown streets, for example. Nonamearisto knows neither how to show off nor how to grumble. Deserted downtown streets is an American phenomenon, and this here video certainly shows Détroit as bucking that country's undying trend.

[@MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia]

Nonamearisto it was a holiday

[@clivehope8409]

Detroit is a very beautiful city

[@khalilt6508]

Gentrification is what Detroit exactly needs I don’t get why a lot of people do not support Detroit is being gentrified and looks at how better it’s becoming

[@-dusman-8748]

No traffic?? Wooow...nice city

[@AlvaSudden]

Hey, stop for the pedestrian 0:22 Pedestrians have the right of way, and that man is in the crosswalk.

[@mikemurga2286]

Very Nice!!!!!!!

[@jillclark2012]

My dad's pawnshop on Monroe Ave/ Palmer Park/7th @Livernois/Sherwood Forest/Hampton,Pasteur...Varsity/Royal.....snow.

[@brucebeamon5460]

Hey SHOUT OUT TO HAMPTON EL & JR . from Green Acres formally of University District

[@antonio-onism9814]

Soo, this is how Detroit: Become Human started ay? XD

[@donmartin5270]

I would like to know. Who recorded, this video he ran two stop signs didn't stop at a red light, and almost hit two parked cars. Thank god I wasn't sitting in the front seat my hair would be white

[@Dan4x2282]

Looks nice !

[@1Barsamian]

Seeing mostly American cars it’s nice to, where I live it’s reverse: Mostly Japanese and a handful of American cars, maybe a handful.

[@HelenEk7]

Do American towns have shopping streets European style? (Where cars are not allowed?)

[@BurningtunaDC]

I don't recall seeing that in Europe so while I am sure they exist I don't know how common they are. The only shopping streets I can recall in America that do not allow cars are the Main Streets in Disneyland and Walt Disney World.

[@HelenEk7]

Where in Europe did you visit?

[@BurningtunaDC]

Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Brno, Olomouc, Lvov, Krakow, Warsaw, Gdansk, Budapest, Vienna, Bratislava. Mostly Eastern Europe.

[@HelenEk7]

For your next visit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_car-free_places Welcome back. :)

[@IWillSmurfYou]

Helen E ....it's the "motor city".

[@carlbrutananadilewski3345]

Looks better than the Bronx.

[@rdwoodshop1373]

You ran a red light at less than 2 minutes in...lol

[@rdwoodshop1373]

And the only time you came to a full stop at a stop sign, was when the car in front of you actually obeyed traffic law.

[@waltertomaszewski1083]

Just noticed something -- where are the busses and light rail trains?

[@wiibaron]

Tracks are for trolleys that are from the old days rarely used now. The over head 'beam' you see is the monorail system People Mover. Detroit doesn't have as many busses[or taxis] that other downtowns have because everyone has a car and comes from the suburbs. Plenty of parking around from all the empty abandoned lots. If it wasn't so depressed there, Detroit is really nice for getting around and doing business. Nighttime is abit different though when the scary comes out to prowl.

[@sixmile2360]

The trolley system is not fully abandoned. There is a new state of the art light rail system on the main street that goes from downtown to the new center area north of the city core. The lack of a unified transit system is a huge impediment to future growth and must be addressed.

[@MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia]

They are in use

[@jwilcox4726]

This town is doing good now, so sorry govt. let /ca steal all auto jobs. That has always seemed illegal or should be. Always praying for and sending positive/good energy /detroit's way. Keep growing. Peace.

[@bryansshow8279]

Cool video. Very gentrified.

[@baljeeeeeet]

I still cannot belive Detroit was founded in 1701

[@harrisfrankou2368]

The RAM cant load enough NPC's during the Level load.

[@arla7247]

who lives in the expensive high rises .What do they do for a living. Can't venture outside the downtown area, or you will meet many real people of Detroit.A lot lucky to have a roof over their head

[@brucebeamon5460]

Have YOU NOTHING BETTER to do or her than come on this site and Spew your hateful thoughts about this city ... There are areas like you speak of But there are also areas ( NEIGHBORHOODS ) that are the complete opposite of what you are saying and Plenty of people that love living in this city other than Downtown and CHOOSE TO BE RIGHT were they are

[@arla7247]

@@brucebeamon5460 ​ @Bruce Beamon Hey this isnt hate , I'm from Detroit. What I'm saying is that this look at Detroit is from a one sided angle . They are only showing the area that people of means can live in.

[@centralgalaxy]

Is Detroit safe to walk around?

[@sixmile2360]

Downtown where I live is safe. The downtown area is expanding rapidly but there are some really dangerous areas that are best to avoid. Ironically I was just in Nashville on business when some guy tried to strong arm us for cash. He didn't succeed. My advice is come visit us. Great vibe. Music, emerging food scene, fantastic museums, (art, greenfield village/henry ford in nearby Dearborn, Motown Museum to name a few.) Detroit is like any city. Be aware of your surroundings and watch your purse/wallet.

[@DanMaluchnik]

Yes

[@gdurant]

What a freaking joke. Detroit is a poop hole because demon rad leftist destroyed it and you going to try to gloss over a grave with a little white paint? Give it a break stop wasting our money scumbag leftist morons.

[@sixmile2360]

Gdurant I am not a scumbag leftist moron. I am a card carrying Republican and a decorated wounded USMC veteran. It is unfortunate that you are unable to interact with other posters as an adult or without resorting to childish name calling. It is clear that you have no idea what is happening in Detroit. Do we have problems? Absolutely. A lot of work is left to be done. But most of the progress is due to private investment not government funding. After seeing your other posts you are either a young person spewing drivel or a bitter old man. No matter what I very much doubt that you have any real idea what is happening on the ground here in Detroit.

[@fascistitaliano6661]

Car jacking heaven

[@SpfySpaceJam]

Not in downtown

[@1Slimdiamond]

Overdosing heaven. Rave parties and caucasian junkies on deck.

[@sixmile2360]

Angela. How old are you? I live downtown. There are no street overdoses. You are simply making this nonsense up.

[@MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia]

FASCIST ITALIANO you mean LA and Miami

[@bigk2624]

Home

[@fascistitaliano6661]

Wonder who is downtown at night if this how clean it looks during the day?? Lmao

[@MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia]

FASCIST ITALIANO more lively in fact at night except Sunday

[@koolkar55]

What a shame it's so dead. You don't even get enough cars to make a Jam. Until industry returns it will just go down hill further. This is the result of Japan, Korea, China that can make things so much cheaper. Unions have a lot to answer for in getting wages for workers that were just not affordable to the manufacturers. Australia has just gone through the same thing with no auto manufacturing at all. Everything now is imported

[@PandaLuver1996]

You just made a whole paragraph of a comment and completely ignored the one made by the poster saying that it was filmed sunday... a year ago. It's much livelier and exciting now, I work and live in downtown and it's pretty energetic every day of the week. There are a lot of companies and stores popping up and slowly bringing people back. It's going to be a long process with lots of work, but the downtown area is showing a lot of promise as to what it could be in the future

[@MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia]

koolkar55 holiday

[@warhammer50k46]

Looks KN

[@gdurant]

Looking like a ghost town?

[@MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia]

Gdurant Sunday and early

[@1Slimdiamond]

Film the OVERDOSES. Junkies nodding all day.

[@lt3096]

There are no substance abusers overdosing in public downtown. You're more likely to find that in the suburbs of Detroit.

[@trainrover]

California is the :pfft: l a u g h a b l y dopey place you must be dreaming of, you fucking crétin you.. .. . .

[@brucebeamon5460]

If you are looking for drug attics tent cities crowed streets of homeless people dedicating out in the open with needles everywhere check out the documentary’s on the streets of DOWNTOWN L.A the cities mayor doesn’t even bother to try keeping it out of view and this is RIGHT OUTSIDE the doors of high rise condos an apartments