Podcast with Carl Roehling - Keeping the Creative Class in Close Quarters
This week’s “50 CEO’s on the D” features Carl Roehling, CEO of the Smith Group. Roehling speaks with Doug Rothwell about maintaining creative talent in our area.
The two discuss Detroit’s creative class, which is made up of more than just artists—web designers, advertising designers, and engineers all fall within the category of “creative,” and Roehling discusses some of the ways to nurture this aspect of Detroit’s industries. The Creative Corridor is one such area that Carl maintains as a way Detroit can flourish its creative class.
“With initiatives such as the Creative Corridor, another way Detroit can develop its creative class is through maintaining closeness and density, “ Roehling says, “Consolidating in this region would boost our ability to bring people from the outside here, as well as keep the people that are here within this environment.”
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Chris Kole:
There is so much talent in this city with the center of creative studies,the local artist community and common creative people, we should have public art on display everywhere we walk and drive.There should be
major public art in the downtown business district.All new office buildings should have major art or fiber art in its lobbies visible to the public by car or on foot.You can see this in Chicago,Toronto,and LA.We need it to be done now.Now that the crook has been run out of town,the powers to be should get the artistic community reved up and ready to produce.
Chritopher Kole
Royal Oak,MI