I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.

People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.

People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.

I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.

Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the neighborhoods.

There was something in the waste stream that wasn't supposed to be there or was there without the knowledge of the company that generated the waste.