Despite budget troubles it seems like good stuff is still happening in Hamtramck

[Pcm]

I love Hamtramck. It is so colorful and wherever the eye travels it is interesting. It is the embodiment of the true American dream. It has always been like a great sponge for those aspiring to get started in America, in business or in life adsorbing wave after wave of immigrants from the Poles and Ukrainians, to the Balkan war refugees to the current wave of Bengalis,Yemenis, young artists and urban dreamers. It is continually recycled and renewed.

It's great asset is its affordability and economic and social equality. There is no upper crust district and no flat out ghetto slum. It is all working and slightly lower middle class. Families, businesses and lives have a chance to start up in relative security and opportunity. It is always getting better and yet staying the same. Good stuff will always be be happening there.



"Charest Street - Hamtramck"

Winter advisory to Hamtramck newbies: If you see a shoveled out parking place with an old kitchen chair sitting in it... you will be better off hitting on the spouse of its owner than parking in that spot.

Lowell, how can I get a print of Charest Street - Hamtramck?

[1953]

I owned a two flat in Hamtramck for ten years. It's such a vibrant community with such connectedness. On the downside, the property values are so poor, and the town could use a few more corporate type businesses [[independently owned businesses are great, but no city should have 100 percent locally owned). I feel like Hamtramck will be a valued community again one day, when Detroit's stablization and development push up against it. When that happens, it will be an amazing neighborhood to live in, both culturally and from a home equity standpoint.

1953

PS -- Much of the housing stock could use a good deal of work.