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Detroit Development Is a Long Game, and That Is the Opportunity
Detroit punishes tourists and rewards residents. The development edge goes to whoever knows the block, plans in decades, and fixes causes instead of cosmetics.
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Travis Hermiz Writing
Notes on building brands, product, and long-horizon ownership.
This is where Travis Hermiz writes about the work: building consumer brands in categories where everything on the shelf looks interchangeable, treating product and packaging as one strategic decision instead of two, and what buy-fix-hold real estate teaches you about patience, underwriting, and compounding.
These are not news posts and there is nothing here that was written to hit a keyword. They are the arguments behind the decisions — why a point of view beats a spec sheet, why the physical object matters more than the campaign around it, and why planning to own something for twenty years changes almost every choice you make in year one. Michigan is the backdrop for all of it, because that is where the buildings and the brands actually are.