Lived for several years in the New Center Area in one of the historic homes on the bricked parkway. It was a rich, wonderful experience to be so close to the Fisher Building, Woodward Avenue, and the Cultural Center.
Somebody can correct me if I'm wrong, but I do believe that the Fisher Bldg. is almost the same distance from downtown Detroit that the Empire State Bldg. is from downtown Manhattan.
Notice he says..."expand over from the midtown campus" into the "newcenter" area. So what is north of midtown ? uptown of corse. It's just that people call it by its nickname..."the newcenter" instead, which comes from what the 7 fisher brothers nick named it because it was "the newcenter for business", as opposed to the downtown business district or center. Just a little useless info there lol.
....which is no different than calling the central park area of manhattan "uptown", because that is the north most part of the greater downtown manhattan area. Even though manhattans limits still stretches a few miles north of that on the west side of the bronx. So yeah, basically detroits newcenter district IS "uptown" detroit, just like the medical and wayne state districts are in "midtown".
Before the business district was built there, grand blvd. was the city limits. So the newcenter business district is just the center point that helped to sprout growth in that general part of the city. So to me the newcenter district is just more than the original point of growth in that area or just more than the main area on the blvd. between woodward and 2nd st. Now it is just the north part of the greater downtown area, and that's what I mean basically by "uptown"...........
As far as I'm concerned the newcenter district has north residential areas that stretch as far as clairmont, or bumps into the boston-edison neighborhood, and yeah, they are also between dexter and linwood. And it's hard to draw clear lines on what's bad or not in and around that area, at least as far as looks goes. Some areas look kind of bad, some so so, and some pretty good, but they all kind of blur and criss cross into one another. It's basically a hodge podge of good and bad and so forth.
Lived for several years in the New Center Area in one of the historic homes on the bricked parkway. It was a rich, wonderful experience to be so close to the Fisher Building, Woodward Avenue, and the Cultural Center.
dmasonb 2 years ago
Somebody can correct me if I'm wrong, but I do believe that the Fisher Bldg. is almost the same distance from downtown Detroit that the Empire State Bldg. is from downtown Manhattan.
TitaniumByFire 2 years ago
Notice he says..."expand over from the midtown campus" into the "newcenter" area. So what is north of midtown ? uptown of corse. It's just that people call it by its nickname..."the newcenter" instead, which comes from what the 7 fisher brothers nick named it because it was "the newcenter for business", as opposed to the downtown business district or center. Just a little useless info there lol.
TitaniumByFire 2 years ago
....which is no different than calling the central park area of manhattan "uptown", because that is the north most part of the greater downtown manhattan area. Even though manhattans limits still stretches a few miles north of that on the west side of the bronx. So yeah, basically detroits newcenter district IS "uptown" detroit, just like the medical and wayne state districts are in "midtown".
TitaniumByFire 2 years ago
Before the business district was built there, grand blvd. was the city limits. So the newcenter business district is just the center point that helped to sprout growth in that general part of the city. So to me the newcenter district is just more than the original point of growth in that area or just more than the main area on the blvd. between woodward and 2nd st. Now it is just the north part of the greater downtown area, and that's what I mean basically by "uptown"...........
TitaniumByFire 2 years ago
New Center is a unique and wonderful area. It like another cbd but only closer to uptown instead of downtown.
TitaniumByFire 2 years ago
Do you mean the North End or Dexter-Linwood?
D.L. Is really bad. North End is nice.
kindakooldude 2 years ago
As far as I'm concerned the newcenter district has north residential areas that stretch as far as clairmont, or bumps into the boston-edison neighborhood, and yeah, they are also between dexter and linwood. And it's hard to draw clear lines on what's bad or not in and around that area, at least as far as looks goes. Some areas look kind of bad, some so so, and some pretty good, but they all kind of blur and criss cross into one another. It's basically a hodge podge of good and bad and so forth.
TitaniumByFire 2 years ago
You guys do a great job on these videos. Keep it up.
JoshFlowers 3 years ago