He tried his damnedest to lure Amazon to Detroit and into his buildings, but in the end, Dan Gilbert's effort to secure the e-commerce giant's second headquarters came up short.
Quite short, actually. Detroit didn't even make it into Amazon's top 20 candidates.
While Detroit and Michigan's political leaders have chalked this up to a learning lesson, Gilbert, who spearheaded the region's Amazon pitch, has released a statement that, if we were to give it a title, we'd call "Detroit already great."
The billionaire founder and chairman of Quicken Loans shared the message via twitter. In the five-line statement, Gilbert refers to Detroit — the U.S.'s most impoverished and violent crime-ridden big city — as "the most exciting city in the country."…