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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 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 .
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]
The Roberts Riverwalk Urban Resort Hotel, formerly the Parke-Davis Research Laboratory also once known as Building 55-Detroit Research, [3] is a luxury hotel on the Detroit International Riverfront in Detroit, Michigan. The former research facility was redeveloped as a boutique luxury hotel in the 1980s.
Augustus Woodward's plan following the 1805 fire for Detroit's baroque-styled radial avenues and Grand Circus Park Streetcars on Woodward Avenue, circa 1900s. The period from 1800 to 1929 was one of considerable growth of the city, from 1,800 people in 1820 to 1.56 million in 1930 (2.3 million for the metropolitan area).
Philip A. Hart Plaza, in downtown Detroit, is a city plaza along the Detroit River.It is located more or less on the site at which Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac landed in 1701 when he founded Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, the settlement that became Detroit.
The Dequindre Cut is a below-grade pathway, formerly a Grand Trunk Western Railroad line, [1] located on the east side of Detroit, Michigan, just west of St. Aubin Street.. Much of the Cut has been converted to a greenway; the colorful graffiti along the pathway has been left in p
West Riverfront station (formerly Joe Louis Arena) is a Detroit People Mover station in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It is located on Steve Yzerman Drive across from the former site of the Joe Louis Arena , near the intersection of 3rd Street and Jefferson Avenue, where M-10 terminates.