by Charlie LeDuff Dan Gilbert and a rendering of Hudson's project. If you believed the local forecasters who make their bread parroting what the downtown business interests tell them, you're now standing with your pants around your ankles staring up at a flight of stairs to nowhere. Take Dan Gilbert's Rocket Companies stock (RKT) that had its initial public offering last August on the New York Stock Exchange. Those forecasters assured us that Gilbert's cashing-in on his privately owned, Detroit-based companies should not be seen as an ominous cloud on the horizon. No...no...they wrote, Downtown Dan wasn't cashing-out while the getting was good and interest rates were at historic lows.