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This is the way it is with the city of Detroit.

The city that changed the transportation of man around the world.

The old gives way to the new.

Not all that is good is cherished and contributes to the green roof of the future.

70 years ago, Detroit was the heart of the entire planet's auto industry.

It was home to almost 300,000 manufacturing jobs.

It was Motor City.

It was about a decade ago that heart nearly stopped beating.

General Motors, the Detroit stalwart, once the world's largest corporation died today.

It was 100 years old.

GM and Chrysler, both based in Michigan, turned to Congress to save America's auto industry

and almost a million jobs.

And slowly, things got better.

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