Comments on: What was the impact of Super Bowl XL? http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/what-was-the-impact-of-super-bowl-xl/ All Michigan, All the Time Fri, 17 May 2013 11:31:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Brian http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/what-was-the-impact-of-super-bowl-xl/#comment-7539 Brian Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:56:17 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/what-was-the-impact-of-super-bowl-xl/#comment-7539 The big thing is perception. Detroit garnered a ton of attention and earned some new respect from the rest of the country. Even more importantly, tons of suburbanities realized that their city can be world class, and in visiting the downtown festivities and seeing all the people walking the streets and enjoying themselves, the comfort level with the city, at least downtown, increased for metro Detroiters, who are probably the most anti-urban people in America on the whole. Throughout the last year, several events, big and small, brought more and more people to the center of the city. An average summer day saw a park full of people in Campus Martius Park. Last weekend, Motown Winter Fest happened again, and just like during the Super Bowl, it brought in huge crowds.

In real terms, the Super Bowl broughts tons of money to the area, and exacerbated (in a good way) the already scorching downtown entertainment/restaurant industry. More and more restaurants continue to open, and now, with more residents, practical stores and other services are appearing downtown, too. The SB may have created more reason to believe in downtown Detroit as a destination, and this may have influenced the Book-Cadillac and Fort-Shelby deals that were closed last year and now underway. The major residential boom downtown, though, most recently manifested in the announcement of The Griswold condo development on Michigan Ave, and which will probably culminate in a Broderick Tower renovation, probably has very little to do with the Super Bowl. Likewise, the East Riverfront redevelopment and other lesser-publicized moves such as the renovation of the Book Tower by a NY firm, probably have little to do with the SB.

]]> By: REALdetroiter http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/what-was-the-impact-of-super-bowl-xl/#comment-6209 REALdetroiter Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:47:07 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/what-was-the-impact-of-super-bowl-xl/#comment-6209 u should watch this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B099nM7bpZQ

IMPACT!

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