I was driving along Greenfield from Grand River all the way to 8 Mile, and I noticed that entire corridor is filled with many postwar lowrise apartment buildings of a similar style, one after the other, mile after mile.

Does anyone know why Greenfield has so many apartment buildings, and all of the same style and era? I don't think there's anywhere else in Southeast Michigan with such a concentration from the 1950's and 60's.

What were the demographics along this corridor back then? Was it mostly Jewish, and perhaps the apartments were kinda the transition between the "old neighborhoods" along Dexter and the like and the "new neighborhoods" in the suburbs? Or maybe the apartments were marketed to the growing African American population, which started expanding to NW Detroit during this era?

It just seems odd to me that there would be so much vacant land along this corridor so late in Detroit's development, and that all the landowners decided to build the same thing. Any thoughts?