World beat: Dan Gilbert’s downtown makeover gets play in London media

Sure, we hear about another new purchase by Dan Gilbert’s real estate team every other week or so, but what’s not to like about a major league redevelopment project that aims to turn downtown Detroit into one of the country’s most liveable neighborhoods?  

Even the Brit journos are noticing. Another good sign. An excerpt:

His Bedrock property management company owns 22 buildings with more than 3m square feet in the city. He’s attracting big names back into the city. Gilbert convinced Chrysler to take office space downtown and renamed a building after the car firm; he recently toured the city with Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer. He’s effectively created a business campus in the heart of a city some had written off as dead. A death that had been a long time coming.

Blimey, how dramatic. Read more here.