There was perhaps no more grandiose a vision laid out for greater downtown this decade than the one the Ilitch family unveiled in July 2014.
Its District Detroit project over 45 to 50 blocks north of the central business district was to bring office, entertainment, housing, restaurants and bars, and green space to the area surrounding Little Caesars Arena for the family's Detroit Red Wings hockey team and, later, the Detroit Pistons, which moved from Auburn Hills.
Although the anchor arena was built on time, opening in September 2017 to the tune of $862.9 million with $398.1 million in public financing, and some of the ancillary development has cropped up, much of the area that was to be brimming with residents and shops and office workers by now remains desolate — a sea of surface parking lots and boarded-up and vacant buildings, exactly as it had been before July 2014.
While there are a few buildings under construction and a pair of new office tenants announced in recent weeks, the timeline for the vision of the District Detroit was one that even Christopher Ilitch, president and CEO of Ilitch Holdings Inc., admitted in May was "aggressive."
The lack of progress has prompted round criticism in editorial pages and at the city council dais, among activists and even the national media.
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