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Belle Isle State Park is a 982-acre (397 ha) island state park in the Detroit River, home to the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory, the Detroit Yacht Club, the Detroit Boat Club, the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, a Coast Guard post, and a golf course. Until its November 2013 conversion to a state park, it was largest island city park in the ...
The city is divided into 55 neighborhood areas which are further grouped into 10 neighborhood clusters. The neighborhood areas are composed of and based on census tracts . The master plan neighborhood areas were created with the adoption of the city's current master plan in July 2009, which was a revision of the 1992 master plan. [ 2 ]
The Palmer Woods Historic District is a neighborhood located in Detroit, Michigan, bounded by Seven Mile Road, Woodward Avenue, and Strathcona Drive.There are approximately 295 homes in the 188-acre (0.76 km 2) district, [2] which is between the City of Highland Park in Wayne County and the City of Ferndale in Oakland County. [3]
Brightmoor is a neighborhood located in Detroit, Michigan, near the northwest border of the city. [3] Brightmoor is defined by the Brightmoor Alliance as being bordered by Puritan Avenue to the north, the CSX railway to the south, Evergreen Road to the east, and West Outer Drive, Dacosta Street, and Telegraph Road to the west.
Detroit City is the Place to Be. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company (New York). First Edition, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8050-9229-5 (hardback version). Buckowczyk, John J. "The Decline and Fall of a Detroit Neighborhood: Poletown vs. G.M. and the City of Detroit." Washington and Lee Law Review, January 1, 1984. Volume 41, Issue 1, Article 5. p ...
The District boasts the city's oldest continuous neighborhood association, the Historic Boston–Edison Association, which was founded in 1921. [6] The District received historic designation from the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office in 1973, the Detroit Historic District Commission in 1974, and the National Register of Historic ...
Downtown Detroit is the central business district and a residential area of the city of Detroit, Michigan, United States.Locally, "downtown" tends to refer to the 1.4 square mile region bordered by M-10 (Lodge Freeway) to the west, Interstate 75 (I-75, Fisher Freeway) to the north, I-375 (Chrysler Freeway) to the east, and the Detroit River to the south.
The city of Detroit is split into seven council districts. The Detroit Demolition Program targeted all of these districts. Each region had between 1,500-3,000 demolitions. [9] [10] These demolitions were contracted to numerous companies with $90 million [7] [8] going to businesses that started up in Detroit. Most of these funds come from a ...