Apart from Justin Verlander's pitching, much of the discussion this summer in Detroit has been on the Mayor's new [Short Term Intervention Strategy] for the neighborhood revitalization initiative known as the Detroit Works Project. Mayor Dave Bing announced the Strategy in late July which takes a guarded step back from previous rumors of a city plan that would cut essential services away from the Detroit's more vacant and decrepit neighborhoods and force the consolidation of the City's widely spread resident population. This new "short term" plan aims to classify city neighborhoods into three categories based on vacancy and housing conditions data. The categories: "Steady", "Transitional", or "Distressed", will determine the city's revitalization focus in each of the city's neighborhoods. For example those areas classified as "Steady" will see new commercial corridor and infrastructure investment, increased code enforcement, and rapid response to fix up neighborhood blight. "Distressed" neighborhoods will see more focus on helping people through education and jobs programs, demolition of blighted structures, and more, large scale, site acquisition and project marketing. Three neighborhoods that are often considered to be stable to transitional have been designated as "demonstration areas" for the new strategy. The city will test and monitor methods of carrying out city services in these areas and evaluate their progress at the end of six months.