Fantastic!

Beautiful stuff.

Great shots Zach!  There's some houses in there I've never seen before.  Usually, I drive through there after I circle the Packard Plant.

What do the commercial strips around there look like?

They aren't traditional strips of businesses along a thoroughfare in this particular neighborhood like the rest of Detroit.  Stores occupy various corners and are flanked by apartment buildings.  The major commercial strip somewhat closeby is on Jefferson, which is nine lane avenue with larger commercial buildings and apartments

Very similar to Cudell on Cleveland's far west side.

Very similar to Cudell Edgewater on Cleveland's far west side.

 

Fixed that for you - Cudell (south of Clifton) doesn't have too many homes of that size and grandeur. And "far" west side... I think of West Park as being far west, not Edgewater.

I think that Cudell Improvement Inc. would beg to differ.  And I apologize if I consider the western border of a city to be west.

I think that Cudell Improvement Inc. would beg to differ.  And I apologize if I consider the western border of a city to be west.

 

I was thinking the same thing as MayDay.  You you're self say:

Very similar to Cudell on Cleveland's far west side.

 

To me the far west side is West Park, Jefferson or KC.  The border of Edgewater and Cudell is Madison, correct?

I concede both points.  Sometimes I'm a prideful poster.

My screen name is from an alley south of Madison running from  Cudell into extreme western Detroit Shoreway area. And yes, Cudell is bordered by a suburb, Lakewood on its west.

 

Now: back to Detroit ...

I am sorry to take this back to Cleveland...

 

To my fellow Clevelanders-- this is a carbon copy of Cleveland Heights (with some East Blvd / Wade Park district thrown in).

 

And I must add, I think Detroit is awesome, despite its current state.

I visited there since the late 80s/early 90s well before its present-day "Casino renaissance" and there were even more urban gems then (since knocked down).

It is too bad that so much is being lost to demolition.

Detroit is going through (on a much larger scale) what Cleveland went through in the 1960s/70s with its massive urban renewal, just leveling acres and acres (for example, the Erieview area downtown).

Unfortunately, there is no turning back.

 

I have not been to Detroit (other than the suburbs) for quite some time but it appears that they have been leveling the city for decades.  I can recall riding a bus in 1981 from downtown Detroit out to Dearborn that went down (I believe) Michigan Avenue.  Even then I was truly shocked by the landscape on either side of the street.  It looked like a prairie.  While I did not mention a thing to my host in Dearborn, he was somewhat embarrassed by the sights he knew I had viewed on the ride out to his house.