Is Detroit Really Making A Comeback?

Detroit, Michigan one the greatest American city the heart of it's auto history and today a landscape of urban decay unlike anything we have ever seen. Many in the city falsely feel they are now the safest city in USA... despite the fact its still the most dangerous city been so for decades. While some residents are hopeful, the real idea is this city has a LONG WAY TO GO. The city offers an amazing food scene, diverse areas and automotive history. However, its been plagued for decades with murder and crime making it an outright scary destination for visitors.

[@jadenburns2656]

Detroit is headed in the right direction you gotta realize it’s been shrinking for years and years and now it just has started to grow these last few years which is a win there’s 600,000 people in a city that once held 1.8 million lots and lots of potential

[@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComeback]

You betcha!

[@garymartin1045]

I've worked in Detroit for the last 15 years. There's a few nice places, but. The majority of the city is abandoned, ran down. Only a small 2 mile section is rebuilt. That lays about 6 miles of mostly ghetto. It's sad, but that's the facts.

[@CobraCommander11]

I went to Detroit earlier this year. It was better than I predicted. It’s a nice town, considering what it has been through.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

comparing my first visit, to my most recent.. it changed alot.

[@CobraCommander11]

Also the bbq is amazing -I like BBQ Central.

[@comeconcon569]

Detroit is a pretty sizable city and it's not a town. it is the biggest city in Michigan.

[@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComeback]

Thanks for noticing!

[@survivingthetimes]

That's a trick that cities big and small have been using for a long time. They polish up the downtown, ignore everything else, and BAM! We've made a comeback. They did that with the small city where I live in Indiana. I love Detroit. I'm not from there, but been there many times back in the day.

[@marlak4203]

thank you for seeing through the mess. The WHOLE city is far from back.

[@sixmile2360]

There are two schools of thought. The start downtown and build out approach is the best. I lived inside the city for over fifty years and saw it at its worst. Now? For those of us who lived through the horrible times the differences are amazing. Downtown is making a comeback. That is undeniable. I was back for the NFL Draft and drove around the traditionally depressed areas. You can see progress being made even in those blighted neighborhoods. Sidewalks and curbs are being replaced. New homes are being built. There are visible signs of renovations. The problem is scale. Detroit is about 130 square mile in size. I read a HUD report that noted that downtown and new center (just north) are 98% occupied (64% in 1999.). The rest of city is only 41% occupied. That leaves a lot of work to do. But snarky, condescending videos are not the answer. My sister has owned a book store on the outskirts of downtown since my parents died. It has been in the family for 70 years. They refused to leave and stuck it out. Over 250 condos and apartments are being built with 10 square blocks of the store. A Starbucks opened down the street a year ago. If anyone would have suggested this to me 15 years I would have called them delusional.

[@gopherchucksgamingnstuff2263]

Anyone who thinks Detroit is the safest is jaded or needs a front-row parking pass. My family comes from there. It is sad what the motor city has become.

[@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComeback]

Holiday Greetings from Detroit, America's comeback city!

[@MrRDAVON]

I normally wouldn’t comment however, the fact that you named Ypsilanti, MI a suburb of Detroit shows that you have absolutely NO CLUE about this region. It’s clear that you are using Detroit’s revival for clicks. I actually live here and I’ve seen changes that have blown my mind that are OUTSIDE of downtown. Living in Detroit & Visiting from Cuba or W.e you are from are two different ball games. You have got to go more research because we ARE on track to having the LOWEST murder rate that this area has seen in 50 years. No we are not the safest in the country but we are on track to becoming a safe city. Thanks for your opinionated video. I would love to see more videos with FACTS vs your opinion.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

This video is packed with facts. That whole metro area is 30 years behind… your just barely catching up

[@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComeback]

Thanks! These comments are very welcome!

[@kevinakakp9120]

As long as your thriving in Detroit, don’t let what outsiders say. Most people follow the trend, and the trend is Detroit and everything up here is horrible, but people, including YT people continue to move to Detroit, they are lying when they say they are not, Detroit has a deep history that is intriging to lots of people.

[@JeromeWade-lm8jh]

​@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS You seem to have painted a post apocalyptic gloom-and-doom picture of Detroit !

[@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComeback]

You have to look elsewhere for positive Detroit videos!

[@georgedoolittle9015]

Fastest growing City in the World right now with a massive Bridge that is going to connect Detroit far more efficiently to all of Southern Ontario and Buffalo, New York. Unlike Chicago (far worse crime than anyone at the moment) and New York (massively overbuilt at the expense of Industry) Detroit and its surrounding Region is absolutely massive in both being pretty nice and very well integrated into the City Center. Fairly good but not great Airport much better weather than Chicago and soon...a hell of a lot easier to get into Canada and back. Near all City USA completely overrun with car traffic Detroit doesn't have this problem...yet...and also Michigan is a major oil producer of a few hundred thousand barrels of oil per day plus access to refineries. The entire Region around Lake Erie is starting to come back to life actually and Detroit is the Anchor City for all of that. As a massive real estate mania goes bust many investors and speculators I think will be heading into this Region as well.

[@cams6950]

While Detroit city proper is around 630,000 the metro itself is actually 4.3 million. 2nd largest in the midwest and still pretty significant nationally. The problems that we see magnified in Detroit are just reflections of how American society values its cities writ large that we see repeated in many other major American urban centers.

[@TheOrleanian136]

I love Detriot. I felt safer in Detriot than in my own city

[@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComeback]

Thanks for that!

[@apimpnamedstreetmeat]

you must live in fucking gotham city then LMAO

[@swank1526]

Hi Jose, I’m from Michigan now living in Florida (actually met you at St. Pete pier) but I noticed you forgot to mention the 1967 riots. I’ve worked with many people from Detroit because I worked in the suburban area for years and they tell me that the 67 riots had a lot to do with white flight.

[@feelsgoodman9737]

I think if a city like Durham NC can become a much better place over time as it did, Detroit certainly can and probably will as well, it might be the time to get a house around the Detroit metro area and have it go up in value as the area improves.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Nice little towns all around Detroit

[@johnnguyen6159]

The transition area that you are showing is crossing the border between Detroit and Grosse Pointe Park. The funny thing is that even though Detroit is known for the Big 3 automakers, their main campus operations are not Detroit. Ford is in Dearborn (borders west of Detroit), GM in Warren (borders north of Detroit), and Stellantis (Chrysler) in Auburn Hills (~30 miles North of Detroit where the Detroit Pistons used to play).

[@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComeback]

Haven't heard about Ford's Corktown Campus yet? How about GMs factory zero? Stellantis Jefferson, And many other industries are building facilities in the city. You could make an entire video just showing them!

[@johnnguyen6159]

@@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComeback I actually watch your videos on a daily basis, thanks for the tours of Detroit! I have heard of Ford's renovation of the Michigan Central station, but also Ford's build out of their new campus in Dearborn. Unfortunately GM main Engineering is based in Warren and Stellantis in Auburn Hills. We need more projects similar to Ford's Corktown campus that is more high paying, high tech, and integrated into the neighborhoods. While manufacturing jobs are needed and nice; the repercussion is that neighbors living next to the Stellantis plant are not liking the oder coming from it for example.

[@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComeback]

@johnnguyen6159 Thanks so much, and yes! We have heard about the odors from stellantis. There's also many smaller industries and warehouse sized facilities popping up citywide, Lear, Dakota, Ford, and GM on the old AMC site hard to keep track of them all. There's about 25 housing construction projects going on at a time, and urban farming is taking hold. The city has made tremendous strides in blight removal since bankruptcy and is on the right track.

[@johnnguyen6159]

@@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComeback Don't worry I'm fully aware of all the projects going on in Detroit such as the UoM DCI campus (in collaboration with Olympia and Relate Company), Hudson Tower (tallest skyscaper in the Midwest outside of Chicago), Huntington Tower, Henry Ford Health System Expansion, etc.

[@nbc48201]

You can talk all you want about statistics and murder rates but on average most of the crime is between common parties and not random. Unless you are looking for trouble specifically or just outright don't have street smarts you won't be encountering a lot of crime. I'm from California and moved here a decade ago and not once have I had any crime happen to me. "making it an outright scary destination for visitors." Let's be real now. The places visitors are going are not dangerous. People mostly come to stay around the downtown area where as you have said it is safe. Tourists are not going the Detroit suburbs where it might be more dangerous because frankly what is there for them to do there.

[@marlonholt40]

Detroit was a fun and safe place to live until the crack epidemic hit. Alot of crime stemed from drugs. If you werent involved, you had nothing to worry about. You left east Detroit on that round about and entered Grosse Point Park, the gateway to the money in Wayne County, the Auto Barons. You left out Windsor, Eastern Market, Corktown, The Detroit river, you need a Detroiters prospective.You need me. lol

[@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComeback]

Right on!

[@JordanA101]

If you are going to expect being taken seriously, at least don't make outrageous claims. Detroit is relatively dangerous by US standards but nowhere near the top in world rankings. It takes two strokes of a keyboard. You are correct on the second point that downtown does not reflect the rest of the city, however downtown is indeed safer than the national average. And yes, it is important.

[@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComeback]

Thanks!

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

You have absolutely no idea, Detroit ranks ON THE TOP of world list for dangerous. Mexico, US and Brazil dominates those list.. Detroit fits right in at the top.. with few competition.. maybe Tijuana now days

[@lucasbrown2656]

@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS bro do some research then lmao. Detroit doesn't crack top 10. You're spewing nonsense violent statistics.

[@willbygosh4887]

I think Asian,Arab,Latin immigation could be a key to revitalization within the City of Detroit.More diversity!

[@orangekilla3374]

Detroit will become even more violent and dangerous

[@marlak4203]

i don't believe the "powerful ones" really want them. But i believe it will end up being some other group anyway.

[@ninjanik2095]

yes it is!

[@FLINTmitten810]

Man your racial rant was kind of irritating, but good video regardless. Why don’t you live in a black area?

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

I have. My neighborhood where I was born in Camaguey Cuba was 1 block away from the black area. I than moved to Louisville kentucky went to an elementary school on the west end that was 96% black. than, as an adult I moved to Montgomery Alabama. 67% black metro area. But just so you know, I like to live around RICH OLD WHITE people because i am a high income earner. I hate old white people more than blacks, but i gotta live around them for my safety. I got NO PROBLEM saying things for what they are.. because i am sure that my views are fair and just. If i had messed up ideas, than it would be a problem for me to speak my mind. While living in Montgomery i worked for many blacks in Deatsville, great people. Wish things had worked out but unfortunately, exactly what i said on todays video so i had to leave. I wasnt the problem.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

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[@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComeback]

Holiday greetings from Detroit!

[@davidmajer3652]

Most Vietnamese immigrants probably would not want to live in rural America. Those that immigrated here, more than likely came from a city, and rural America would be very different than rural Vietnam.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Not in Florida. The can grow mango and banana. They have a passion for gardening

[@brittoncoil2518]

How do you compare St.Louis and Detroit? Which city do you prefer?

[@user-vr3mr5eu7y]

I think it will have a comeback its like 20 years out tho

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

hopefully less, but yeah.. its a long road. I hope it makes it.

[@user-vr3mr5eu7y]

@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS it's a "climate haven" and is quite a populated state. Reasonable scenery. Once the south is done booming that become the spots. Wanted say 30 years tho maybe too 😳

[@Poordirtfarmer]

👁👍🏻 just don't go out after dark

[@JordanA101]

Please stop talking if you are clueless. It's completely fine after dark, and that's when most people in fact go out, especially on the weekends.

[@Poordirtfarmer]

@jordana8845 and yall want to live like that for some strange reason. I live in the woods and im glads after watching yall.

[@JordanA101]

@@Poordirtfarmer Well, don’t go out in the dark in your woods then and stop talking nonsense.

[@Poordirtfarmer]

@jordana8845 people are animals not critters

[@Poordirtfarmer]

@jordana8845 I mean, look at the crazy people you got around you But they carry guns around and act like Billy, bad ass, get real, grow up and get an education and a job stop selling drugs and carry in guns. You might make it in life just saying.

[@skatemetal5062]

Right across the river in Windsor Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 Detroit is a nightmare lol

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Your border agents were not kind to me 🤣

[@smithterrance459]

Yes Detroit is definitely coming back but the whole city just needs some new houses apartments townhomes on every single blocks pretty much everything.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Charlotte has all that and its still undesireable

[@smithterrance459]

​@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGSYeah but Detroit is rehabbing a lots of vacant homes but in general it just needs newer construction homes for everybody to move in.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

@@smithterrance459 new houses, old problems. endless cycle

[@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComeback]

New construction is happening citywide

[@metaldiceman]

Such rich irony to hear someone gurgle about racism to then say that Vietnamese people want to live by banana trees.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

The truth isn’t racist. They prefer a warmer climate. You dumb Americans don’t even know what the definition of racism is anymore. Smh. So now we can’t mention a certain nationality liking warmer weather?? Get the crap out of here with your mental illness

[@PookieLoc]

I’ve always said this Detroit needs more immigrants to fill in the gaps in those abandoned areas on the east and west sides, other big cities like Chicago have many different ethnic groups living there and each neighborhood has its own attributes, culture & cuisine that attracts people which equals money!

[@crohunter100]

Ok but are these murders targeted or purely random?

[@mattstarr8203]

we're was mr mom filmed

[@pastortravisj.robertson2274]

This broke blogger have no life…He has no solutions or resources sad SMDH

[@FreelancingTipsandTricks86]

great

[@edwardmiessner6502]

Detroit should be looking to reinvent itself as a transit oriented, thickly settled, and prosperous city and encouraging immigrants and whites to move in would be a good strategy. Homes, not just single family houses, but row houses, two and three deckers, duplexes, small apartment houses, shops with offices and apartments above, all linked by frequent public transportation. The transit should not just frequent busses and the Q Line streetcar, but also light rail such as trolleys in the median, surface lines on disused tracks, and aerial light metros that would make the downtown people mover into a useful distributor. Of course the African Americans who have only known idleness, crime and dysfunction their entire lives will be like, "There goes the neighborhood" and move out to the suburbs, making them even more ghetto. And then the greater Detroit metro area will be known for its doughnut of poverty just outside the city line.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

I saw blacks working in the snow not sure what u mean. I saw blacks walking in the snow to go work long routes. Construction crews out there in the snow and cold

[@gabriellerush]

This is a fallacy. The “blacks” and “African Americans” you are referring to are not the problem. It’s the work ethic of those who choose to live in a life of dysfunction that are the problem. This is not exclusive to blacks and African Americans.

[@nazarm6215]

Need jobs, so they need investment. Service industry such as tech def possible to revive the economy without too much debt

[@kevinakakp9120]

People that continue to invest here, live here, see the opportunity here can’t worry about what the rest of the world thinks. It is so funny how yt people have taken over downtown, its interesting how there is constantly construction of new apartments, infrastructure improvements, the homeless population is kept extremely low…people that have never set foot in Detroit continue to hate a region they never been to, and the one thing all the outsider yt people have in common, is the big black boogy man people gonna get you, so strange when I live around plenty white people in the city, and they cool, and they not leaving. There are a lot of opportunities here, and one is the affordability, unlike what’s happening down south and in many other cities across America. Keep believing that people are not investing here, whether it’s the city or suburbs, Detroit is never going to fall completely off, it is the anchor of a very large vicinity. Had not been for the lockdown situation, most construction projects would be way ahead of schedule, but that put a pause on things. As for the smaLL? revitalization downtown, well it has to start there, nowhere else So anyway, the more people that stay away, the better for the region, it keeps the inflation down, it keeps the traffic down, it brings the homicides down, it’s a lot going on, Detroit works for me, I hate when it gets cold, but I realize it gets cold all over the US other than in Florida and maybe Arizona.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Theres a reason Detroit is affordable and its not a good one 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@xtone810]

Minneapolis Minnesota is becoming the next Detroit.

[@jared9962]

I was in Detroit in 2008 for the Detroit Electronic Music Festival. I felt like I was going to see someone pull a gun out at anytime. A security guard pulled a gun out on a teenager while I was passing out flyers at the festival. The houses are crazy to see. One had Teddy Bears nailed around the house! I don't want to go back basically lol. I would move to Canada if I lived there.

[@JordanA101]

You do realize that 2008 was 16 years ago? That music festival goes on every single year since then without incident. The teddy bear house was part of the Heidelberg Project, but if you don't appreciate artwork that is wonderfully weird and unforgettable, then Detroit is not for you anyway.

[@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComeback]

@jordana8845 Thanks! It's refreshing to hear from someone who actually knows Detroit! Most base their opinion on the distant past and online opinions

[@cortezmiller1899]

I used to live in Detroit, it’s not dangerous!

[@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComeback]

Thanks for that!

[@bluesmanooooo2914]

You owes me

[@billcook9313]

Let the arabs & asians have it, its wore out, i live in erie pa now.they are here too, we let them have the crappy parts of town.old houses run down bussinesses.keeps them in one spot,

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

I would move back to Cuba before living in Erie Pa

[@billcook9313]

Whats cuba like cause it sucks here, wirkin un dunkirk ny today, its even worse

[@fastttFreddie]

Seriously I can’t even get through the first 30 second of this garbage. Detroit is not the Murder capital of the world. That was a term coined for the city in the 80s due to high crime. Keep in mind there was high crime in every major city in the 80s and Detroit was the fifth largest city in the country. That’s the stigma that Detroit still faces today. It may have more specific crimes than other cities when comparing, but you also have to take account the population difference when comparing crime rates. Really really pointless making content so ill informed , underwhelming negative both contextually AND audibly… not to mention this has been done to death … 🥱