Detroit Grand River and Greenfield Neighborhood book available

[Bham1982]

Now Grand River and Grand River Ave. is close to be ghetto marts.

The ghetto marts closed. That "retail corridor" has been mostly empty for around 15 years now.

It lasted surprisingly long, though. There was a Montgomery Ward until maybe 1990 or so [[and I think a second department store) and even after they closed, they were replaced by independent retailers. Much of NW Detroit was solidly working-middle class even 20 years after white flight, but at some point black flight to the burbs emptied these areas of consumers.