A Selection of Detroit City Neighborhoods

In Detroit city proper, there are several neighborhoods that provide interesting places to live:

 

Palmer Woods: This neighborhood is located near 7 Mile and Woodward and is home to the city’s largest house – a 62-room, 35,000 square foot home built by the Fisher family for the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit in 1926. Today, Palmer Woods is characterized as the city’s richest neighborhood, with its Tudor Revival mansions.

 

North Rosedale Park: Located in North Rosedale Park, this neighborhood includes about 1,700 homes, all built before the Depression. The neighborhood’s civic association has served the community for several decades.

 

Boston-Edison Historic Park: This neighborhood is one of the largest single-family historic districts in the country, with nearly 1,000 homes. Henry Ford and other notable Detroiters all built mansions here when Detroit was in its boom and now a group of professionals own and maintain the homes with their historic charm.

 

Hubbard- Richard: This is an ethnically-diverse, mainly Latino, community near the Detroit River and minutes from downtown. It is named after Bela Hubbard, an early farmer, meteorologist and developer. The neighborhood is located near MexicoTown and is the home of St. Anne’s Catholic Church.

 

Corktown: This is Detroit’s oldest neighborhood. Irish immigrants began settling here and building homes nearly 20 years before the Civil War. During urban renewal, 700 of the neighborhood’s 1,000 homes were destroyed. Then the neighborhood deteriorated, with property values sinking and vandalism increasing. But in the 1990s, the neighborhood gained new life as renovated homes began selling well.

 

Brush Park: This area features Victorian mansions owned by famous people including lumber baron David Whitney Jr. The houses deteriorated over the years, but some people began investing in the neighborhood. In 1999, a condominium development called Woodward Place at Brush Park was constructed here. Now, people in this community live across the street from the new Comerica Ball Park in condos starting from $199,990.

 

The Riverfront: If you’re looking to live in the center of things and overlook the beautiful Detroit River, then look no further than the Riverfront, which extends from downtown to the far east side of the city. You can find apartments, townhomes and single family homes, as well as retail and business.

 

Victoria Park: An east side neighborhood with homes built in the 1990s that offers a suburban feel, but is close to downtown and the riverfront.