Airport City, Part I: Concept could revive regional economy
Wayne County development director Mulu Birru’s “Airport City” vision is
to build neighborhoods that would bring talented people and innovative
businesses to the region and to add mass transit to region.
According to the story:
Wayne County development director Mulu Birru’s “Airport City” vision, he tells the Michigan Land Use Institute, is to build neighborhoods that would bring talented people and innovative businesses to the region and to add mass transit.
He’s received help desiging Airport City from Douglas Kelbaugh, dean of
the University of Michigan’s Taubman School of Architecture and Urban
Planning, and his students.
The concept could help put Detroit back among America’s greatest cities and bring global markets within reach.
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