Consider Shinola, a luxury-goods start-up that employs more than 250 people in Detroit, many engaged in the manufacturing of bicycles, leather goods, and watches. The firm has opened boutiques in New York and London and is running multipage ads in upscale magazines, boasting of its Detroit connection. But not everybody sees Shinola as a Detroit success story. “Shinola is using my city as its shill, pushing a manufactured, outdated and unrealistic ideal of America,” wrote Detroit native John Moy on Four Pins, a fashion website. He complains about Shinola’s out-of-town financial backers and its use of parts made elsewhere. When Shinola installed four outdoor city clocks, someone tagged them with graffiti.

Shinola is not alone. In 2009, suburban businessman John Hantz proposed turning vacant Detroit parcels into a productive commercial farming operation. After years of effort and investment, he finally got permission to build a hardwood-tree farm on 15 noncontiguous acres. At his own expense, Hantz beautified his property and started planting high-quality, mature trees. “It took me five years and $1 million to get the right to mow the lawns that hadn’t been mowed in 15 years,” he told Crain’s Detroit Business. While bureaucratic bungling played a key role in the delays, his operation also had to face down critics who derided it as a “land grab.”

This pisses me off. Who gives a shit if the financiers are from Texas and are importing parts from china to make their $5k bicycles that say "Detroit" on them? (not that any of that is true...) Who gives a shit? There are 250 jobs IN DETROIT now. Who cares about the rest? It's fucking idiotic.

We wish there were jobs here and manufacturing here... but just not those ones.

Fuck off detractors. Guess what? You lived there for years and it fell in to ruin, you don't get to complain now, in fact you ought to step aside and let some progress occur.