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The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant is located at 461 Piquette, on the northwest corner of Piquette and Beaubien. It is a three-story mill-style building designed by Field, Hinchman, and Smith for Ford in 1904. [12] The first Model Ts were built in this building. [13] The building was designated a National Historic Landmark on February 17, 2006. [1]
Detroit's Eastern Market. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-3274-9. Meyer, Katherine Mattingly; McElroy, Martin C.P., eds. (1980). Detroit Architecture A.I.A. Guide Revised Edition. W. Hawkins Ferry. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-1651-4. Sugrue, Thomas (1996). The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar ...
Cadillac Place, formerly the General Motors Building, is a landmark high-rise office complex located at 3044 West Grand Boulevard (between Casa and Second Streets), in the New Center area alongside the Detroit River, of downtown Detroit, Michigan, in the Great Lakes region of the Midwestern United States.
In 2013 Meijer, a midwestern retail chain, opened its first supercenter store in Detroit; [230] this was a $20 million, 190,000-square-foot store in the northern portion of the city and it also is the centerpiece of a new $72 million shopping center named Gateway Marketplace. [231] In 2015 Meijer opened its second supercenter store in the city ...
Coupons can be used to research the price sensitivity of different groups of buyers (by sending out coupons with different dollar values to different groups). Time, location and sizes (e.g. five pound vs. 20 pound bag) [12] affect prices; coupons are part of the marketing mix. [13] So is knowing about the customer. [14] [12]
A photo-journalistic advertising campaign launched to "shine a spotlight on the people in Detroit who make remarkable contributions" to the city. The Renaissance Center is owned by General Motors. The hotel in the central tower is now managed by the Marriott hotel chain and is called the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center. The 1,298 ...
The Town of Detroit [a] created 120-foot-wide (37 m) rights-of-way for the principal streets of the city in 1805, including Michigan Avenue. [12] This street plan was devised by Augustus B. Woodward and others following a devastating fire in Detroit, [13] with a mandate from the territorial governor to improve on the previous plan. [14]
Detroit's population today is only half of what it once was, and its most productive people have been the ones who fled. [155] However, Thomas Sugrue argues that over 20% of Detroit's adult black population was out of work in the 1950s and 1960s, along with 30% of black youth between eighteen and twenty-four. [158]