Seldom has one man meant so much to the fate of a big American city, especially in the modern era. Thus have so many millions of metro Detroiters been drawn today to the unfortunate news that Dan Gilbert suffered symptoms of a stroke on Sunday and is being attended to at a local hospital. And while local and state governments of course have played a role in Motown's renaissance since the nadir of the city's bankruptcy in 2013, the overwhelming private force in Detroit's comeback has been Dan Gilbert. Over the last decade, the Quicken Loans/Bedrock/Rock Ventures empire has sunk a total of nearly $6 billion into rebuilding the city. But Dan Gilbert has individually carved his own visage into whatever might be Detroit's version of Mount Rushmore.

Source: Forbes May 27, 2019 15:44 UTC