The northern anchor of Detroit's greater downtown, New Center is a diverse and vibrant neighborhood that offers shopping, entertainment, and dining among landmark architecture, historic districts, and contemporary homes and businesses. Shortly after General Motors built their headquarters three miles north of downtown, the Fisher Brothers conceived the idea of a "new center" and proceeded to construct the landmark Fisher and New Center Buildings. From this initial activity in the 1920s sprung a new commercial district, a new neighborhood, and a New Center for the City of Detroit. Detroit's New Center takes readers on a journey from New Center's origins as a planned business district to its current life as a thriving area where Detroiters live, work, and play.
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Author Randall Fogelman is the Marketing Director for New Center Council, Inc., a non-profit business organization dedicated to the development and management of New Center. Fogelman holds degrees in art history and urban planning and is also the owner of the Detroit Spice Co., a product line that reflects Detroit's rich ethnic heritage.
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Thorough and Engaging Historical Snapshot,
By "mphilecon" (Madison Heights, MI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Detroit's New Center (MI) (Images of America) (Paperback)
This book is more than a pictorial record. It tells a story. It nicely documents the creation and evolution of the New Center area of downtown Detroit. Its provides insight into the forces driving urban planning in the Motor City. It chronicals the city's arrival on the scene as an industrial powerhouse, through the effects of the industry's maturation on urban development, all the way up to current efforts to continue developing the area post-the maturation of its major corporate sponsors (and without a range of other sponsors of that scale filling in the gap). Full of well researched historical photos (some, I believe, which ever never been available outside of archives). The text below the photos are more than captions explaining the photos. They actually tell the story, succintly but effectively. The photos highlight the narrative. And they are a lot of fun to look it. If this is your scene, and your area of interest, I definitely recommend this book.
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Auto pioneer Henry Ford bailed out the struggling Detroit General Hospital and acquired sole ownership of the land and existing buildings in 1915. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fisher Building, Henry Ford Hospital, Second Avenue, West Grand Boulevard, Woodward Avenue, Fisher Theatre, Cadillac Place, Argonaut Building, Cass Avenue, Elizabeth Solaka, Detroit Public Library, State of Michigan, Virginia Park, Courtesy of the Farbman Group, Motown Records, Colonial Revival, Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge New!
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Auto pioneer Henry Ford bailed out the struggling Detroit General Hospital and acquired sole ownership of the land and existing buildings in 1915. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fisher Building, Henry Ford Hospital, Second Avenue, West Grand Boulevard, Woodward Avenue, Fisher Theatre, Cadillac Place, Argonaut Building, Cass Avenue, Elizabeth Solaka, Detroit Public Library, State of Michigan, Virginia Park, Courtesy of the Farbman Group, Motown Records, Colonial Revival, Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge New!
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- Real Estate by George F. Bloom on 7 pages
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- Real Estate by Rh Value Publishing in Front Matter
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- Fun Run by Teacher Created Resources Staff on page 113
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