[QUOTE=poobert;303607]I love how Grand Boulevard was named General Motors Boulevard...in honor of the company that flattened the neighborhood there...
The old General Motors actually did quite a bit to revitalize this New Center area. My memory is starting to fail me on the time frame, but in the late 1970s or early 1980s, the company purchased nearly all the residences on Pallister, Delaware & Bethune [[between Woodward & Second Ave.). They were stripped to the studs and completely renovated each one including new garages. This did spur some conversion of some rowhousing into condominiums and construction of new condominium units on both sides of Second Ave. GM was attempting to lure employees into the area. it had hoped that this would spread up through Seward & Virginia Park, but it never happened.
The old GM did a lot more for the area in which it was located than most other businesses within the city
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