Detroit: An Office profile;

              The Renaissance
of Motor City
I
This is your Detroit and welcome to it
You thought you knew it, how little
did you know...
Take another look around
There's a whole new spirit happening
in this town...
This is your Detroit and welcome to it
We're going to do it, we've only just begun
of the Young Detroiters. a
group sponsored by the
Greater Detroit Chamber i->f
Commerce
The Renaissance Center — four
39-story office buildings poised like
sentries around the central 73-story
pillar of the Detroit Plaza hotel —
looms on the banks of the Detroit River
Detroit partner in charge Ray Spinola in
his office in the 100 Tower of Renaissance
Center. In the background, the Ambas­sador
Bridge spans the Detroit River,
linking Detroit with the Canadian city
of Windsor.
future, an enormous modern sculpture
designed for working, for living, for
entertainment — a city within a city.
Few major cities are as closely
identified with one industry — and
dependent on that industry — as is
Detroit with the automobile. On the
other hand, the economic health of
few cities can have such a direct and
striking effect on the national economy
as can that of Motor City. "There's a
saying that when Detroit catches cold,
the rest of the country has the snif­fles,"
Ray Spinola, partner in charge
of the DH&S office in Detroit, said,
quoting an old adage.
But if the rest of the country is uneasy
and apprehensive about the energy
crunch of 1979, much of Detroit
reflects the long-range optimism of
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