No it could not. Admittedly I only skimmed the article, but from what I can tell you could say the same "civic booster club" kinds of things about 50 other cities in the Midwest. Lots of other cities also have some minor little incubator activity going (which will never, ever make any of them the Silicon Valley of anything, by the way), and almost all, or let's just go ahead and say ALL, of those other cities are not nearly as much of a spiraling hell-hole as Detroit. God bless them Detroiters for trying to keep hope alive, but… no.