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Re "A Private Boom Amid Detroit's Public Blight" (front page, March 5):
Bridging Detroit's possibility prism — and forging a city of extraordinary potential from its cataclysmic demise — requires a generational grip on Detroit's long-term challenge.
Detroit's biggest risk is how its "pockets of success" worsen economic and racial divides between a newer, privileged urban core and Detroit's older, often disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Detroit's opportunity to transform itself into an inclusive, viable city remains ripe. That process is being led by a band of visionaries, entrepreneurs and community leaders in spite of broken civic infrastructure. It's not sustainable, though.
Detroit can't leave public safety and fundamental services in such an abysmal state. State-led emergency management is undesirable, but it may be essential to resetting the public sector's trajectory.
Regardless, Detroit's core task is sustaining the generation-long tenacity required to see its fledgling revitalization to fruition citywide. The real question is whether Detroit's divergent strands will find a way to see it through together.
BRADFORD FROST
Detroit, March 5, 2013
The writer is a member of the Detroit Revitalization Fellows program at Wayne State University.
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