Detroit reflects on Mike Duggan's tenure as his final days in the mayoral office near

DETROIT -- When Mayor Mike Duggan announced his plan to run for Michigan governor , he did so from a tower in the iconic but aging Renaissance Center overlooking Detroit. It's not the same city that Duggan inherited in January 2014. No longer defined by blocks of vacant houses , empty downtown storefronts, rampant crime and scores of broken streetlights, many believe Detroit is finally experiencing its renaissance. “I wish he would stay,” 40-year-old plumber Thomas Millender said of Duggan, who will step down in January after serving three terms as mayor. “Duggan did a good job from what the city was to how it has been revamped," Millender said from his father's porch in a neighborhood where many homes are dilapidated. Private renovation crews buzzed in and out of once-vacant houses, prepa