Zak Pashak, while a little more toned down in his rhetoric, nonetheless agreed that Gilbert’s critics, and critics of Detroit’s redevelopment in general, ought to ease up. After all, development, even if it comes with “suspend[ed] democracy,” as Dan Gilbert once put it, is better than no development. “I think Gilbert is fantastic,” Pashak said. “You couldn’t ask for a more benevolent billionaire. But a lot of the people are just against change. That’s why I don’t like the word gentrification. Detroit needed change.”
Said by a man who wasn’t forced to relocate in his senior years to places that are inconvenient and further away from essentials
