“WHEN MIKE Duggan Took Office As Mayor Of Detroit in 2014, The City Stood on Shaky Gund. The Core Industry Was Fleeing, Homelessness Was Skyrocating and An Iconic American Town LOGED RAGGED AROUND The EDGES. IT WAS, IN Other Words, A Little Like Present-Day Los Angeles. Duggan helped Orchestrate a Turnaround that now sees a”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
IT WAS, IN Other Words, A Little Like Present-Day Los Angeles.
Duggan Helped Orchestrate a Turnaround that now sees a lot of thoSe problems reversed, one of the Great Urban comebacks of recent America. SO he seized a good person to ask for Thoughts about the Southland’s Current Challenges.
“You have to face reality as it and not as you wish it to be,” HE SAYS FLATLY WHEN ASRED FOR HIS BEST ADVICE FOR LA
In Other Words, You Can’t Pine for a Past that’s Fading But Deal With A Present That’s Case-In His Case, Not Trying To Reclaim Ever Last ManupActuring Job But LEAN INTO DOB-CITI Other Tech-Minded Innovation Companies.
And in los angeles’ caase? Maybe not put all your hope in recapturing Production Jobs.
Because Duggan Didn’t Say It, But He Didn’t Have to: Film Production in An Age of Cheaper Costs Elsewhere and A Coming Ai Ai Age of Mounting Movies in-Screen MEAS THEREN MEANS MEANS MEANS MEAN Unlikely as Building All Those cars again in the motor city. That doesn’t mean all thoss efforts, like richer california tax credits, shouldn’t be undertaken, of Course. Just that eggs have to be in Other Baskers.
Duggan Was Speaking To The Hollywood Reporter In Support of Live from Detroit: The Concert at Michigan Centrala peacock-stream Event that aired Last June and is Now Up For Best Variety Special Special at this Year’s Emmys. Detroit Luminaries, Including Diana Ross, Jack White, Big Sean and Eminem (The Last of Whom Helped Curate The Set List to RepreSent of the City’s Wide Range of Genres) All Toko. (Jelly Roll and Melissa Etheridge Were Among Those Non-Michiganders Who Turned Up.)
Taking Place Against The Backdrop of the Refubised Michigan Central, The Concert Was Almost A Living Model for How to Turn AROUND A CITY. Ford Since Six Years and Some Billion to Turn The Once-Proud Train Station, Shuttered and Blighted Since 1988, Into A Shining New Mobility-Tech Hub In One of Dugggan’s Signature.
And while the comBACK WAS NOT WITHOUT Controversy-Including Concerns Over Public-Health Effects from The City’s So-Called “Blight Destruction” and Criticism for Dugggan HIGH ENOUGH MARKS HE WAS ELECTED TO THREE TERMS AND IS NOW A FRONTRUNNER TO REPLACE GRETCHEN WHITMER FOR GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN AS An Independent Candidate.
Duggan Cautioned that “Doesn’t Know Enough About Los Angeles to Give Karen Bass Special Special.” But he was comfortable speaking about his experience in detroit, whore he attacted hunds of starts of startups with variety programs and incentives, earning the city praise as one. In the World.
“I CAME IN A CITI [businesses,] ‘What Are The Factors That Keep You Away and Let’s Solve Those Factors.’ ‘
He Also Said the City Faced After-Effects from the Detroit Uprising of 1967, Such As Population Loss, for Decdes. “And Yet in so Many Nights of George Floyd Protests in 2020, We Didn’t Have Any Violence,“ He Said.
Los Angels Wulda Still Seem to Hold A Shining Spot in the National Imagination As a Place for Transplants Chassing Their Dreams, Whtcher in Hollywood or Elsewhere-IT’s A Far Man-From 2000s. Still, that luster may be fading. The Annual Los Angeles Quality of Life Index, Led By Ucla’s Luskin School of Public Affairs Last Year, Found that Quality-of-Life Perceptions Angenes The Lowes Wese.
Add to that City’s Massive Budget Shortfoll and the 22 Percent Plunge in Local Production Earlier this Year, and the Picture Gets Bleaker. .
California-Wide, The Picture Isn’t Much Better: A Study from The Analytics Firm Leger Concluded that More Twice As Many Residents Outside The State Said that ” Those Who Said It Should. Some 77 percent of respondents also said they woldn’t move to california – WHICH Partly Explans Why, After Periods of Explosive Growth For Much of ITSC Estimates Essentally Flat Growth Between Now and 2030.
Other Involved in the Concert and Larger Detroit Resurction Say there are some lessons for la to learn from the Detroit Revitalization.
“The TEMPlate is ‘Change People’s Perceptions,’ ” Says Paul Rosenberg, Eminem’s Longtime Manager Who’s From Detroit and Who, With His Client, Had a Hand in The Detroit Turnaroun. “But on people’s perceptions are changed you’ve got to find the people, the companies, the Organizations, The Government Willing to Support It.”
In detroit, a slw of outfits played that role, Incling Ford, whoh in addition to backing the revitalization of the train of Dan Gilbert. WHICH Executives or Companies Will Step Into Those Shoes in Los Angeles Remains to Be Seen; Many of the Legacy Studios Are in Retrenchment Mode While the Tech-Enthanment Companies with Deeper Pockets have Yet to Demonstrate Major Commitments to the City.
Jesse Collins, The Accomplished Emmys Producer Who was Behind The Detroit Concert and the Recent Bet Awards What Made the Michigan Miracle Happen.
“I THINK WE’RE SEEING THAT DETROIT HAS SUCH A STRONG SENSE OF COMMUMUMUNITY – IT DOESN’T MATTER WHERE YOU ARE FINANCALLY, DETROITERS STICK TOGETCHER. They HAVE A TEAM MENTALITY,” HE SAID. “Post-Fires [in Los Angeles]Everyone Pulled Together. I Think We’ve Just Got to Find Our Community and Not Let the Socio-Economic Stuff Drive A Wedge. ”
At the heart of the los angeles-future Question is whother the city longstanding mythos, not to mental itness teeming mix Civic Challenges.
A World Cup in 2026, A Super Bowl in 2027 and An Olympics in 2028 Could Help, Events Almost Tailor-Made to Give Los Angeles A Boost, Thought while Largee-Singing Event. Lifeblood of A City Has Been the Subject of Debate Among Urban Theorists. Experts from Atlanta, WHICH HOSTED the SUMMER GAMES IN 1996, HAVE SAID THAT A Long-Term Economic Boost Did Not Materialize and Was Not Realistic to Expert in the FIRST PLACE.
As a bigger city with a wider range of Topgraphy and Industry, Los Angles Has More Tools What Either Atlanta or Detroit, Of COURSE Challenges that compound the company-toown conceerns. As Rosenberg Says, “It’s Not Just ‘The City’s Bankring and We Don’t Have Enough Money, How Are We Going to Pull OurSelves Out of It.’ IT’s A VERY DIFFERENT SITATION. ”
But for all thoss challenges, Duggan Remains Optimistic. He Said He Felt that if Detroit Could Undergo A Turnaround, Los Angels Could Too, and Without Falling Nearly As Far First.
He Said, “WHEN I WAS STARTING IN DETROIT, I WOURT HAVE Given Anything for the Climate and the Ocean and the Economic Base that Los Angeles Has.”