A $61 million Hyatt resort with 35,000-foot conference coronary heart and 4 hundred rooms opened downtown. An industrial park within the former St. John’s neighborhood, a 54,000-square-foot market with native retailers and River Village — $40 million in residential planning — have been just about executed earlier than the C.S. The world got here inside the type of the Industrial Mutual Support Auditorium — a former UAW-owned facility that hosted live shows by the likes of Dizzy Gillespie and Billy Vacation for its members. Whereas GM was busy slashing jobs in Flint, metropolis leaders concocted a hare-brained scheme, puffed up …