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David Di Rita remembers exactly what Capitol Park in Detroit was like roughly two decades ago.When his and Stacy Fox’s then-fledgling real estate development company opened its first office on the 31st floor of the 38-story Art Deco David Stott Building around 2006, the tiny central business district enclave was a far cry from what it is today.“It was a bus station and open-air drug market surrounded by vacant or nearly vacant buildings,” said Di Rita, who is principal of the Detroit-based Roxbury Group, today one of the city’s most active developers in hotel and multifamily space. “It was a place that had been completely forsaken and forgotten, as bad as any square block in downtown in terms of abandonment and crime and public infrastructure.”Through a concerted, complicated and sometimes controversial effort involving the public, private and nonprofit sectors, today Capitol Park is now chock-full of pricey rental housing (with only a modicum of affordable units thanks in part to the timing of its ramp-up), chic architecture and insurance offices and a mix of date night and other restaurants that make it a fashionable draw for those in the city, from the suburbs and out of town. Grit has been supplanted by glam. Read more at the link in our bio.