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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.
Only two no-hitters have been thrown at Comerica Park, both by the Tigers. On June 12, 2007, the first no-hitter was thrown at Comerica Park by Justin Verlander. The Tigers won the game 4–0 against the Milwaukee Brewers. It was also the first no-hitter thrown by a Tiger in the city of Detroit since Virgil Trucks accomplished the feat in 1952 ...
The Bay Port Historic Commercial Fishing District is centered on a man-made peninsula approximately 600 feet long and 100 to 500 feet wide, extending into Saginaw Bay. When the district was designated in 1977, only seven buildings were still extant in the district. [2] As of 2017, it appears that only three of these are still standing. [4 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Amzie Griffin, a 90-year-old professional vendor at Comerica Park has been selling to Detroit Tigers fans since 1960. 90-year-old Comerica Park vendor Amzie Griffin has been selling to Tigers fans ...
2002 - Detroit Lions football team begin play in the new, state-of-the-art Ford Field, returning to downtown Detroit after 27 years in suburban Pontiac. 2003 August 14: Northeast blackout of 2003. [28] Sister city agreement established with Dubai, United Arab Emirates. [29] 2004 "Restored" Campus Martius Park opens in downtown Detroit.
The Chicago White Sox want a new stadium south of downtown, and you should see the renderings. There's the ballpark, of course, on a premium 62-acre plot along the Chicago River in the South Loop.