[robertpelloni]

Detroit was built on an industry so large that nothing has matched it since in scale.

I think that to restore Detroit to its former glory is not really possible because there is no industry big enough to support it, nor is Detroit necessarily the best area to put that industry if it existed.

It just so happened that Henry Ford was born here and transformed a small trading town into a huge manufacturing hub by chance of his business growing so large at the right time.