ESSAY: Detroit’s Struggle To Maintain Its Own Millennials
The Giant Slide at Belle Isle. Baseball games at Cody. Fairlane Mall. And way too many Bettermades and Faygos. These are a few of the memories I have growing up in Detroit: a city revitalizing itself one vacant building at a time, drawing suburban companies to the city’s core, and rebranding itself as a hipster haven for millennials like myself. I never would have imagined not being a resident of my hometown as I graduated from Cass and later the University of Michigan. I had always held an...