So thinks Bill McGraw in his excellent article in Bridge Magazine 'Detroit’s next hot neighborhood is hiding in plain sight'.

With rents and occupancy soaring in the T-shaped 7.2 square mile Downtown to New Center 'Green Zone' the notion that properties on the peripheries are suddenly becoming appealing and speculative shouldn't be surprising. And if one wants grit and history MJ is filled with that. After all this is where the Model T was birthed.

“Just about every time that I’m working outside my building, people stop by, sometimes a couple times a day, just asking if units are available to rent or buy,” he said.

“When you tell them there’s nothing available, they get very upset because there is nothing in the area.”

Siegel’s neighborhood is named Milwaukee Junction, once one of the world’s most productive industrial zones, the place where Henry Ford began experimenting with the Model T and the assembly line. It’s a sprawling area around the I-75/I-94 interchange that is old and beat up and exists mostly off the radar of local media and metro area residents.

While its dynamic past is gradually forgotten, Milwaukee Junction’s immediate future seems increasingly clear: It appears to be Detroit’s next hot neighborhood.