Warren, MI.

[Danny]

What's makes Warren different from Detroit? Who lives in Warren? Why Warren became the biggest populated suburb in Metro-Detroit area. Does Warren has a downtown or other facilities?

What's your view on Warren?

[jcole]

What's makes Warren different from Detroit? Who lives in Warren? Why Warren became the biggest populated suburb in Metro-Detroit area. Does Warren has a downtown or other facilities?

What's your view on Warren?

Warren does have a downtown it is near Chicago Rd and Mound. One reason it's so large is probably due to all of the auto plants that are located there.

[Lowell]

After Detroit and Windsor, Warren is the most significant community in our family of communities. I say that because of its economic, historical and, even more importantly, psychological significance. Regarding the latter, the meaning of 8 Mile has been defined Detroit and Warren. While that has largely softened, the indent remains -- kind of like how Devil's night as still happening lives on.

With a troubled GM's design center, the memory of a legendary tank plant and a belt of struggling assembly lines and parts makers mixed with fading neighborhoods, struggling families and swing voters, it is an epicenter of American ills, a snap shot of a new style urban crisis.

Here is a city that grew from a village center of under a thousand to over 40,000 in ten years and went on to be the third largest local community shortly afterwards and now finds its cushioned workboots knocked out from under it. Warren is trying to find its new meaning as desperately as Detroit is. Hopefully this will be a time where the bad memories fade on both sides and new cooperation rises.

Time for Mayors Bing and Fouts to announce the 8 Mile Summit?

[Stosh]

What's makes Warren different from Detroit? Who lives in Warren? Why Warren became the biggest populated suburb in Metro-Detroit area. Does Warren has a downtown or other facilities?

What's your view on Warren?

Warren has a quite nice city center complex, with a fountain for children to play in and a farmer's market on the weekends. Of course, they paid big bucks for that during Steenburgh's administration.

[urbanophile]

The growth of Warren was incredible.

1900 2,567 —
1910 2,445 −4.8%
1920 3,564 45.8%
1930 14,269 300.4%
1940 22,126 55.1%
1950 42,653 92.8%
1960 89,426 109.7%
1970 179,260 100.5%
1980 161,134 −10.1%
1990 144,864 −10.1%
2000 138,247 −4.6%
Est. 2008 133,939 −3.1%

This is from Wikipedia, so buyer beware, but pretty astonishing.

[Hornist9]

Warren was incorporated from I believe 5 or 6 other communities in the late '50's. There is the section that is near 13 Mile and Mound. That was originally the Village of Warren, and the incorporation included the Township of Warren, Baseline, Michigan, and Van Dyke Michigan. Center Line is right in the middle due to the fact that Center Line chose not to go in with Warren. Center Line had their infrastructure in place and feared a raise in taxes if they incorporated with Warren.
By the way, the Farmer's Market is only on Sunday, from 9 until 2 in the afternoon.

I presently serve the City as a member of the Cultural Commission [[yes, there is actually some culture in Warren, LOL) Stosh mentioned the City Square area with the Fountain. I would like to post that the Cultural Commission sponsors free concerts on Sunday evenings that begin at 7:00p.m. Since we've got the Atrium, we are able to move the concerts indoors if the weather is lousy, like it was last week.

Here is a list of who's performing in the coming weeks. All concerts are FREE and begin at 7:00p.m. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket. If you bring a cooler, no alcohol please! The City does frown on that.There is plenty of free parking in the structure, and City Hall is open for those who need to use the lavatories. For the elderly and handicappers, the walk from the structure to where the concerts take place is a short walk.

July, 26th The As Is Band
August 2nd The Coachmen
August 9th The Sound Alternative
August 16th Tartar Sauce Traditional Jazz Band
August 23rd Karen Newman with Singer/Songwriter Steve Acho [[Patriotic Concert)
August 30th Warren Concert Band [[a Traditional Concert in the Park)

[Buy American]

Warren is a nice community to live in. Warren is a family community. Throughout most neighborhoods the residents care about one another, watch out for one another...kind of the way Detroit was many years ago. Services are excellent and you can count on the Police department to come when called and the Fire department to be there when called. Mayor Fouts is a no nonense mayor who is above reproach. The City Council cares about Warren and tries its' best to always have the residents on the top of their list when approving contracts, budgets, etc.

[Danny]

Warren did have some bad reputation towards blacks who are moving over there in the past 20 years. There was a conspiracy involving former Mayor Mark Steenberg who allegally beat up a black youth at some south Warren neighborhood. A black woman who bought a home in a Warren neighborhood north of 12 Mile Rd. had recived racist graffiti all over her home. The black woman has sold her home and moved someplace else. A incident happen a 8 Mile Rd. on the Warren side involving a mentally disabled black youth and Warren Police. Warren Police made a routine traffic stop on a car driving on the Warren side of E. 8 Mile Rd. A group of black young adults were in the car. After the black motorist refused to give his driver license to the Warren Police officer, One mentally disabled black youth quickly got the car and ran across 8 Mile Rd. to a East Side Detroit ghettohood. The Warren Police officer is on pursuit, corner the black youth and use his taser gun to shock him down into the ground. He was killed instantly.

Despite Warren's bigot past blacks represent 9.9% growth and the other housing and apartment stock will attract them from all over Detroit and its suburbs.

[Danny]

According to Professor Hyde in Wayne State University, the overwhelming manufacturing automobile plants within its set up industrial zone contribute to Warren's population growth to nearly 180,000. Back in the 1950s General Motors and Chrysler Corp. decided to build their plants in Warren because the land is cheap and the tax base was cheap. GM and Chrysler don't want to build its plants in Detroit in the 1950s because its tax base was too high and not enough zoning requirements.