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stephane dumas
03-29-2009, 09:03 PM
I spotted this post at the GMInsidenews forums http://www.gminsidenews.com/forums/f59/budding-artist-colony-detroit-76934/ on the topic of the artists who go to set an artist colony in Detroit
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=7123194&page=1
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/17/artists-buying-cheap.html
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090313/LIFESTYLE/903130306&ref=patrick.net

A small colony of artists is cropping up in Detroit, taking advantage of the bottomed-out property prices, buying houses for as little as $100:

some areas where the artists was in the past like SoHo menaged to reverse their fortune, I wish then the same will happen to Detroit and the city will reborn, it could be interesting to see how it'll go, what do you think?