Robin Boyle, urban planning professor at Wayne State , is quoted in a story about the national attention focused on Detroit during the World Series. The Series has been bringing people, money, and national attention to a downtown that is on the mend. Reporter Mark Trumbull points out that Comerica Park was built as part of a downtown renewal effort. "There has been a conscious 10-year focusing of activity in a downtown center that didn't work," Boyle said. "It still doesn't work very well, to be truthful, but it's making progress."