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And, sadly, one of the victims of the Woodward East mess was St. Patrick's itself. The 1862 church on Adelaide, that had once served as Detroit's R.C. cathedral for 48 years, was given to the...

Members of my family worked on the bicentennial commission [[and were highly skeptical of how the funds were being spent). A few later, when I was working at City Council, we were trying to figure...

So, with the background above, it shouldn't be much of a mystery as to why so many Brush Park houses disappeared during the following decade.

After the Woodward East debacle, we were left with a...

I should be careful when talking about Woodward East, because there were really 2 different phases under that name.

The first was a community-based organization run by local residents that ...

I don't know about the '60s, but have you seen the Place Promo survey photos from 1976?

They can be found here:
http://www.placepromo.com/search.php
Just enter the street name of any street in...

Most of the buildings that were demolished in Brush Park in the '60s were just torn down by their owners. Often, one of the organizations there would buy an adjacent building or two for a song...

The riots didn't really touch Brush Park [[well, the 1943 riot did, but that's before the period you're talking about).

What happened in Brush Park is a mixture of things.

The main thing that...