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In 1981, the City of Detroit purchased the site from Uniroyal for $5 million and then spent another $3.6 million to demolish structures and clear the site. [4]The Detroit Riverfront Conservancy, incorporated as a 501(c)(3) organization, helped raise funds for the International Riverfront project. [1]
The historic River Place (also known as Stroh River Place) is located in Detroit, Michigan, bounded by Joseph Campau Avenue, Wight Street, McDougall Street, and the Detroit International Riverfront. It was formerly the Parke-Davis and Company Pharmaceutical Plant. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [1]
Detroit Free Press Building: newspaper 1924 Art Deco: 16 Connected via a walkway on the third and fourth floors to the adjacent Detroit Club: West Lafayette Boulevard: 1020 Washington Boulevard Holiday Inn Express Detroit - Downtown: Hotel 1965 Modern: 17 Stands at the site of "219 Michigan Avenue", one of Detroit's first high-rise skyscrapers.
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The William G. Milliken State Park's official address is 1900 Atwater Street, on the near east side of Detroit and adjacent to the Jefferson Avenue corridor. [5] In 2010, the city completed construction of the "Dequindre Extension" which connects the park to the Dequindre Cut .
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The Lower Woodward Avenue Historic District, also known as Merchant's Row, is a mixed-use retail, commercial, and residential district in downtown Detroit, Michigan, located between Campus Martius Park and Grand Circus Park Historic District at 1201 through 1449 Woodward Avenue (two blocks between State Street to Clifford Street) and 1400 through 1456 Woodward Avenue (one block between Grand ...
Augustus Woodward's plan for the city following 1805 fire. Detroit, settled in 1701, is one of the oldest cities in the Midwest. It experienced a disastrous fire in 1805 which nearly destroyed the city, leaving little present-day evidence of old Detroit save a few east-side streets named for early French settlers, their ancestors, and some pear trees which were believed to have been planted by ...