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Article: Many leading firms long gone.(changes in Detroit, Michigan since 1951)(Brief Article)
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- Crain's Detroit Business
- Article date:
- June 27, 2001
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If you have trouble comprehending all the changes that have taken place in Detroit over 300 years, consider what has happened in just 50 years.
A look at Detroit's 250th anniversary celebration in 1951 reveals tremendous changes in government and business.
When Mayor Albert Cobo delivered a radio address on WWJ 950 in July 1951 as part of the celebration, he was confident that Detroit was making great progress in addressing its problems.
He proudly pointed out that the construction of the Douglas and Jeffries public-housing projects put the city ahead of every other city in the country. Fifty years later, the urban-renewal strategy of the 1950s ...