This great piece from Fast Company tells the story of how people are using entrepreneurial ventures to transform Detroit.
From the small:
Barry's shop consists of clothes and knickknacks by local designers--an example of entrepreneurs buying goods from other entrepreneurs, feeding the new economic machine. Barry, 28, also runs "I Am Young Detroit,"
To the large:
Dan Gilbert, the founder and chairman of Quicken Loans, the third-largest mortgage provider in the country; he moved 1,700 employees downtown in 2010, giving him 7,000 employees there and making him Detroit's third-largest landowner (trailing only the city and General Motors). With slicked-back hair and a perpetual poker face, Gilbert has just gotten started on his plan to transform the area.