Bing: 'Change ... or get left behind'

Change isn't something that Detroit would like to see, it's something that is imperative to its survival, according to Mayor Dave Bing.

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"We are not the most competitive place today," Bing said in a wide-ranging interview Tuesday on economic and budget issues. "We've got to understand that people don't owe us anything. ... Either we're going to have to change or we're going to get left behind."

In other words, despite President Barack Obama's promise in May that GM won't move its headquarters from Detroit, Bing knows that GM's staff is still shrinking and its future is still shaky. So he's exploring incentives to help GM fill what soon could be the equivalent of an empty tower of RenCen space.

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