Seldom has one man meant so much to the fate of a big American city, especially in the modern era. Thus have so many millions of metro Detroiters been drawn today to the unfortunate news that Dan Gilbert suffered symptoms of a stroke on Sunday and is being attended to at a local hospital.
Seldom has one man meant so much to the fate of a big American city, especially in the modern era. Thus have so many millions of metro Detroiters been drawn today to the unfortunate news that Dan Gilbert suffered symptoms of a stroke on Sunday and is being attended to at a local hospital.
Gilbert is founder and chairman of Quicken Loans, which is headquartered in downtown Detroit, and head of an umbrella organization called Rock Ventures that oversees his hundreds of real estate investments and other business ventures from a sprawling nexus astride Woodward Avenue where the fabled thoroughfare feeds the increasingly robust heart of a glittering shopping, sports, entertainment and residential district.
Only Gilbert's willingness to stick his neck out -- way out -- has brought Detroit true renewal and has begun a new virtuous cycle of economic development that has been pulling the region out of a half-century of sloth and despair. Sure, other sources of private capital, such as the Ilitch family who own the Detroit Tigers and Detroit Red Wings, and William Ford Jr. and Ford, which are resuscitating an old mid-town train station, have been pouring their own remarkable resources into the revival.
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