Postwar Apartment Buildings Along Greenfield

[daft]

i grew up near greenfield north of 6 mile. i can't answer your question. but the area wasn't mostly jewish, and my recollection is that most of those buildings went up before the area was integrated.

i do recall that many vacant lots remained along greenfield. i'm guessing [[and it's just a guess) that the road remained undeveloped because there had been a plan to widen it. at some point, those plans would have disappeared, and then developers would have moved in. that wouldn't, however, explain why the same thing would have been built up and down the road.

the next main road to the west is southfield, which was a highway with wide green spaces on both sides before the much-wider freeway was built.

[Bham1982]

i do recall that many vacant lots remained along greenfield. i'm guessing [[and it's just a guess) that the road remained undeveloped because there had been a plan to widen it. at some point, those plans would have disappeared, and then developers would have moved in. that wouldn't, however, explain why the same thing would have been built up and down the road.

Thanks for the comments. Yes, this would make sense.

The Southfield freeway hadn't been built yet, so maybe there was a plan to widen Greenfield, or maybe the Greenfield corridor was considered for what eventually became the Southfield freeway.

As to why so many apartment buildings were built in the same area, around the same time, I think it makes some sense. You had this major corridor with all this vacant land, and there was a significant shortage of housing in the postwar era. It would make sense to built multifamily along a major corridor, especially since Greenfield easily connects to Ford HQ, the Northland area, and downtown.