Comerica leaves downtown

Another hit for downtown Detroit - Comerica moving it's corporate HQ.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070306/BUSINESS06/70306018

I am completely convinced that this is only harbinger of more leaving. It's 200 now for political reasons, but I fully believe following the logic in this article it's presence will be shrinking downtown.

Between this, various ad agencies (JWT and Brogen) leaving or left Detroit, it's not a good sign.

However, Comerica leaving is NOT a Detroit-is-bad issue, it's a Michigan-is-not-growing issue. We need to realize that we must band together, embracing small business and entrepreneurship (which this area needs to do more of) and not let these items get us down.

In many ways, the whole region feels "depressed." And understandably so - but this could be the greatest opportunity we have to reinvent ourselves.