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Visitors — and those who live and work here — often judge the health of Detroit and its suburbs by the latest headlines.
Crain’s chose to mark Super Bowl XL with a review of some of the best economic-development projects both downtown and in the suburbs since 2000, the year Detroit’s Super Bowl XL Host Committee won the bid.
We hope readers react to this list as we did. Frankly, we were amazed to see what had occurred in just five years. The exercise of reviewing and selecting projects was the perfect tonic for the seemingly relentless, negative economic news battering Southeast Michigan and the domestic auto industry.
We found that in the first five years of the new millennium, metro Detroit invested nearly $14 billion in new significant new projects. The actual total is far more, but our reporters and editors zeroed in on the most significant for this list. Real estate reporter Jennette Smith researched and wrote the descriptions of each project.
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