Quote Originally Posted by cmubryan View Post

Bloomfield Township, not West Bloomfield.
No, it was West Bloomfield that tried to build the fake downtown. Bloomfield is too snooty and exclusionary to ever endorse something like that.

Maybe five years ago they were aggressively promoting the Orchard Lake Road/Maple intersection as a "Downtown West Bloomfield", complete with real sidewalks, street trees, decorative streetlighting, etc.

Of course nothing happened, and my Belle Tire still sits there, awaiting the strolling masses along urbane Orchard Lake...