Detroit makes Entrepreneur magazine's Innovation Nation list

Thursday, September 2, 2010 | Source: Entrepreneur

Detroit's problems are opportunities, or at least from the viewpoint of Entrepreneur magazine. It inducted the Motor City into its list of Top 50 innovative cities.

Excerpt:

Detroit sits poised on the brink of economic collapse--and on the cusp of a post-industrial renaissance. Artists and iconoclasts are moving to this city in droves, purchasing foreclosed properties and relying on solar energy and other alternative solutions to pursue lives and careers outside the margins of mainstream society. Officials are looking to reinvent blighted segments of the city as urban farms. Detroit is dead--long live Detroit.

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