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In April 2008, Detroit unveiled a $300-million stimulus plan to create jobs and revitalize neighborhoods, financed by city bonds and paid for by earmarking about 15% of the wagering tax. [14] Detroit's plans for revitalization include 7-Mile/Livernois, Brightmoor, East English Village, Grand River/Greenfield, North-End, and Osborn.
As of 2001, the Hazelwood massacre remained the worst mass killing in Detroit's history. [16] In 1990, five people were fatally shot, and another critically injured, at a reputed crack house in northeast Detroit. It was the worst mass murder in Detroit since the Hazelwood massacre. [17] No one has ever been arrested, and the case remains open ...
Little Caesars Arena, the home of the NHL's Detroit Red Wings and the NBA's Detroit Pistons, is on the west side of Woodward Avenue near Interstate 75. In the 1970s, the Cass Corridor was a poor neighborhood known for drugs, prostitution and sex crimes against children. The area was of significance in the Oakland County Child Killer case. [3] [4]
Rather than being threatening, New Era Detroit’s open display of guns — broadly legal in Michigan — is hailed by many people for protecting Black women in dangerous neighborhoods at night.
By RYAN GORMAN Detroit has been named the nation's most dangerous city for the second year in a row, according to a study of FBI crime statistics. Motor City beat out Oakland, California, and ...
Controversy erupts over low-income housing plan for trendy Detroit neighborhood. Gannett. JC Reindl, Detroit Free Press. November 20, 2023 at 5:03 AM.
Detroit had the 2nd highest violent crime rate in the nation in 2015 among cities with a population greater than 50,000. [3] In 2013, with only 7% of the state population, the city of Detroit had 50% of all murders recorded in Michigan. [4] Detroit recorded 295 homicides in 2015 down from the recent high of 386 in 2012. [5]
The Skillman Foundation selected Osborn to be one of the neighborhoods covered by the Good Neighborhoods Initiative. [1] Osborn is bounded by 8 Mile Road, McNichols Road, Gratiot Avenue, and Van Dyke Avenue. [1] In 2012, Jeff Siedel of the Detroit Free Press said "The neighborhood surrounding Osborn High School looks like a cracked, empty shell ...