The nerd who judges such things on the internet https://www.youtube.com/@CityNerd
Says Detroit is actually doing a great job lately.
Detroit's positive growth probably has many fathers and you can't ignore the individual hipsters who choose to stake out a claim on the inner frontier but, the lesson of so many other places with transit is that if you build it, the PE and REIT dollars will come. Even if they don't know why those dollars are coming. They just do. They have to go somewhere.
Here is his love letter