The Detroit Breakfast House & Grill on lower Woodward in Downtown Detroit, across from the site of the former Hudson's Department store, is one of the new businesses slowly filling the storefronts of the formerly largely abandoned shopping district.

As Downtown Detroit continues its renovation and transformation to a residential loft and shopping district, the looming question is whether street level retail establishments will invest and survive in the new reviving environment.

   Lower Woodward Shopping District - DETROIT  

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The following is a tour of the west side of Woodward running from the picture above [just north of Campus Martius] north to Grand Circus Park.  The impressive architecture of this once thriving shopping district offers a glamour long lost in the move to shopping centers and strip malls. The pictures are from late 2005 when preparations for the Superbowl were being completed and the street-scaping of Woodward had been recently finished.

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