Detroit Archer's target

摘要

Some time this month the mayor of Detroit, Dennis Archer, will decide whether or not to seek a third four-year term. The Archer years have been good for Detroit, or at least much better than the two decades that came before. The city has a new downtown baseball stadium; a new football stadium will be finished next year. Three new casinos are generating $8om a year in revenues for the city. Compuware, a software company, is moving its headquarters and 6,500 workers into the city.The Detroit Comeback Index, which measures the health of the city by 23 indicators ranging from business start-ups to school performance, has climbed from 100 in 1994 to 119.5 (having peaked at 122.8 last year), according to its creator, Comerica Bank's chief economist, David Littmann.