Detroit featured on HGTV last night
HGTV House Hunters featured a couple wanting to buy a house in Detroit last night. Most shows that feature Detroit focus on the suburbs but this one was strictly inside the city limits.
The three choices involved a house in Indian Village, a warehouse loft not far from the river and a condo in the Book Cadillac.
I was shocked to see the condo fee at the Book Cadillac was $1000 a month. The couple chose the
$400,000 condo in the Book Cadillac to be close to, believe it or not, "where everything is happening".
At first, they mentioned something about raising a family so I figured the Indian Village was a slam dunk.
That house was huge and cheaper than the condo.
Oh well, the gal was originally from Korea so I can understand her not being knowledgeable about the area but her husband was from Detroit.
Where do they expect to send their kids to school?
Anyone else see the show??
Indian Village/Book Caddilac Hotel values/safety
Indian Village is on the East side along Jefferson Avenue, near the old Roostertail. Yes, the homes are very big, like Palmer Woods with big lawns but less English Tudor, and were beautiful at one time, and some of them may have been kept up like the one on HGTV, I'm sure for resale. I used to drive by there every day on the way to Wayne med school, but there were lots of dope houses and whorehouses and burnt-out buildings with boarded windows throughout Indian Village. It was all Black no Whites that I could see at that time, and looked very scary to a young med student, not middle-class at all because of the mixed landscape Guarded or not you wouldn't let your kids out after dark. It's no Bloomfield Hills. The Book Cadillac is a Westin Hotel that they recently renovated, I guess to try to bring some value back to their original hotel and at considerable expense. The neighborhood around it is not safe under any circumstances, unless some miracle has occurred in the last few years. The condo price tag reflects what Westin spent on the renovations, not the value in that neighborhood, if my guess is correct. The couple that purchased that Condo didn't make the wisest choice. They could have done much better in other parts of Detroit. The Fifth for instance. Walled Lake. What action is she talking about? Drugs? Drive by's. Armed robberies?