Originally Posted by
jasondc
Detroit isn't Chicago or Atlanta, but it is a large metro region with a decent amount of high yield travel and a good middle class market that pays for leisure travel. Look beyond the city itself and see what there is, otherwise you fail in understanding the true market.
Indeed. In 1950, Detroit was the 5th largest US city, with 1.849 million residents. By 2000, it had dropped under 1 million, and by 2010, it was out of the top 10.
Many of those who left the city itself during Detroit's rapid urban decline moved to the suburbs.